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S. Ducheyne, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent R. Scatena, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; A. Mordente, Catholic University, Belgium University, Rome, Italy; B. Giardina, Catholic University, Rome, Italy (Eds.) “The main Business of natural Philosophy” Advances in Cancer Stem Cell Biology Isaac Newton’s Natural-Philosophical Methodology
In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides In recent years, cancer stem cells have been a historically detailed and systematically rich recognized as important component in explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout carcinogenesis and they seem to form the basis of the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton many (if not all) tumor types. Cancer stem cells or developed a complex natural-philosophical "cancer cell like stem cells" have been isolated from methodology which encompasses procedures to various cancers of different origin (blood, breast, minimize inductive risk during the process of theory brain, skin, head and neck, thyroid, cervix, lung, formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard retina, colon, pancreas and so on). Cancer stem cells hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. - rare cells with indefinite proliferative potential that Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called drive the formation and growth of tumours- seem ‘Newtonian Revolution’ was not restricted to the to show intriguing relationships with physiological empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but stem cells. Specifically, these cancer cells show applied equally to the methodological dimension significant similarities in the mechanisms that of science. Furthermore, it will be documented that regulate self-renewal of normal stem cells. Moreover, Newton’s methodology was far from static and tumour cells might directly arise from normal stem that it developed alongside with his scientific work. cells. Further, the cellular biology of cancer stem cells Attention will be paid not only to the successes of show a lot of similarities with normal stem cells. Newton’s innovative methodology, but equally to its tensions and limitations. Based on a thorough study Features of Newton’s extant manuscripts, this monograph will Advances in Cancer Stem Cell Biology informs address and[..] the reader about both basic and potential clinical applications of an intriguing subpopulation of cancer Features cells -defined in different way as cancer stem cells, In this monograph, a historically detailed and cancer stem like cells, tumor maintaining cells and philosophical-systematic study will be undertaken so on- which are deeply changing some fundamental of Newton's scientific methodology. It will be aspects of molecular and clinical oncology. This text shown that the hypothesis that Newton was a bad compiled by leading expert in the field, offers [..] or confused methodologist is beset with many difficulties and that Newton was not a simplistic Contents inductivist nor did he believe that causes can be Preface.- Cancer Stem cell. A revisitation of derived unconditionally from phenomena. Special “anaplasia” concept.- Stem cells and cancer stem attention will be given [..] cells- new insights.- Molecular biology of cancer stem cells.- Biomarkers of cancer stem cells.- Contents Cancer stem cell and the microenvironment.- List of Figures,- Introduction,- Part I: Newton’s Leukemia stem cells.- Cancer stem cell and the Causal Methodology,- 1 Newton and the Causes: central nervous system.- Cancer stem cells and Something Borrowed and Something New,- Part glioblastoma multiforme. Pathophysiological and II: Newton’s Methodology, or: How to Deduce clinical aspects.- Breast cancer stem cells.- Colon Causes by Their Effects,- 2 Uncovering the cancer stem cells.- Liver Tumor-Initiating Cells / Methodology of the Principia (I): The Phase Cancer Stem Cells: Past Studies, Current Status and of Model Construction,- 3 Uncovering the Future Perspectives.- Pancreatic cancer stem cells.- Methodology of the Principia (II): The Phase of Cancer[..] Model Application and Theory Formation,- 4 Facing the Limits of Deductions from Phenomena: Fields of interest Newton’s Quest for a Mathematical-Demonstrative Cancer Research; Pharmacology / Toxicology Optics,- 5 Uncovering the Methodology of the Principia (III): A Brief Chronology of Newton’s[..] Target groups Research Fields of interest History; Philosophy of Science; History and Type of publication Philosophical Foundations of Physics Contributed volume
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B. Gutkin, DEC-ENS, Paris, France; S.H. Ahmed, University of D. Harrington, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA M. Schwab, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Bordeaux, France (Eds.) (Ed.) Germany (Ed.)
Computational Neuroscience of Designs for Clinical Trials Encyclopedia of Cancer
Drug Addiction Perspectives on Current Issues The merging of different basic and clinical This book will examine current issues and science disciplines towards the common goal of Drug addiction remains one of the most important controversies in the design of clinical trials, fighting against cancer has long ago called for the public health problems in western societies and including topics in adaptive and sequential designs, establishment of a comprehensive reference source is a rising concern for developing nations. Over the design of correlative genomic studies, the design both as a tool to close the language gap between the past 3 decades, experimental research on the of studies in which missing data is anticipated. Each clinical and basic science investigators and as a neurobiology and psychology of drug addiction chapter will be written by an expert conducting platform of information for students and informed has generated a torrent of exciting data, from the research in the topic of that chapter. As a collection, laymen alike. The Encyclopedia of Cancer provides molecular up to the behavioral levels. As a result, a the chapters would be intended to serve as a rapid access to focused information on all topics of new and pressing challenge for addiction research is guidance for statisticians designing trials. cancer research for clinicians, research scientists and to formulate a synthetic theoretical framework that advanced students. Given the overwhelming success goes well beyond mere scientific eclectism to deepen Features of the Second Edition, which appeared in 2007, and our understanding of drug addiction and to foster Statistical methods for clinical trials have been an fast recent development in the different fields of our capacity to prevent and to cure drug addiction. area of active research in Biostatistics since the first cancer research, it has been decided to publish a Intrigued by the apparent irrational behavior of drug modern clinical trials were mounted in 1946 by third fully revised and expanded edition, following addicts, researchers from a wide range of scientific the British Medical Research Council in whooping the principal concept of the first edition that has disciplines have formulated a plethora of theoretical cough and tuberculosis. Often, the participants in proven so successful. Recent developments are seeing schemes over the years to understand addiction. clinical trials suffer from potentially fatal chronic a dynamic progress in basic and clinical cancer However, most of these theories and models are diseases, and it is especially important that these science, with translational research increasingly qualitative in nature and are formulated using terms experiments in medical research use designs [..] becoming a new paradigm in cancer research. In[..] that are often ill-defined. As a result, the empirical validity of these models has been difficult[..] Contents Features New designs for phase I dose finding studies.- Phase The merging of different basic and clinical Features II/III designs for trials.- Design issues for clinical science disciplines towards the common goal of Drug addiction is one of the most important public studies with genomic measurements.- Designing fighting against cancer has long ago called for the health problems in Western societies, and is a rising studies with longitudinal measurements subject establishment of a comprehensive reference source concern for developing nations. Over the past three to dropout.- Issues in sample size re-estimation.- both as a tool to close the language gap between decades, experimental research on the neurobiology Adaptive designs.- The design of non-inferiority clinical and basic science investigators and as a and psychology of drug addiction has generated trials.- Issues in the design of HIV prevention trials.- platform of information for students and informed a tremendous amount of exciting data, from the Randomization algorithms.- Sequential designs for laymen alike. The Encyclopedia of Cancer provides molecular to the behavioral levels. As a result, a new phase III studies.- Case studies of difficult designs.- rapid access to [..] and pressing challenge for addiction research is to Ethical issues in the design of trials. [..] Fields of interest Fields of interest Cancer Research; Molecular Medicine; Oncology Contents Cancer Research; Pharmacology / Toxicology Foreword: P Dayan.- Part 1 – Pharmacological- Target groups based models of addiction.- Chapter 1. Simple Target groups Research deterministic mathematical Model of maintained Research drug delf-Administration behavior and its Type of publication pharmacological applications. V.L. Tsibulsky* Type of publication Encyclop(a)edia and A.B. Norman.- Chapter 2. Intermittent Contributed volume Adaptation : A mathematical model of drug Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days tolerance, dependence and addiction. A. Peper .- Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Chapter 3. Control theory and addictive behavior. D. Newlin, P.A. Regalia, T.I. Seidman, G. Bobashev.- 2012. LXXXVI, 3984 p. In 7 volumes, not available Part 2 – Neurocomputational models of addiction.- 2012. XIV, 204 p. 28 illus., 6 in color. (Applied separately. 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D.W. McCandless, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL, USA N. Maurits, University Medical Center Groningen, The A.E. Kalyuzhny, R & D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA (Ed.) Netherlands Epilepsy Handbook of ELISPOT From Neurology to Methodology Animal and Human Correlations and Back Methods and Protocols The present volume is intended to be a synopsis Enzyme-linked immunospot assay (ELISPOT) has An Introduction to Clinical Neuroengineering of seizure disorders with a goal of describing key been known for some time as a unique state-of-the- studies in animals and humans. The translation of In today’s hospitals, the gap between technology and art technique for studying the cytokine-secreting pertinent findings from animal studies to human medicine constantly needs to be bridged, both by activity of immune system cells, and it appears to be studies, and to potential human studies will be physicians and engineers. By taking a unique clinical one of the fast growing applications in biomedical emphasized. Specific cogent animal studies/results neuroengineering approach, From Neurology research, becoming an indispensable tool in vaccine which deserve exploration in human seizure to Methodology and Back offers a translational development, HIV research, transplantation studies, disorders will be detailed. The current rate of study of neurology and technology from both and cancer and allergy research. The second edition translation is estimated to be from 7‐9 years, and the sides. The fundamental topics covered range of Handbook of ELISPOT: Methods and Protocols, “success” rate of translation was very recently listed from basic concepts such as sampling and simple only the second book in the field which is entirely as less than one half. The success rate is defined as statistical measures via Fourier analysis to source dedicated to ELISPOT assay, shares the detailed results in human studies which were predicted in localization. Providing clinically relevant context techniques that have been developed since the release advance by animal studies. Both the time between and introduce technical concepts, the neurological of the popular first edition. Straight from the labs animal and human attempts plus the success rate diseases presented range from epilepsy, brain tumors of seasoned experts, this book covers setting and need improvement. and cerebrovascular diseases to tremor, MS and performing ELISPOT assays, ELISPOT for veterinary neuromuscular diseases. All topics are presented research, advanced ELISPOT techniques, image Features in a true clinical neuroengineering approach.Each and data analysis, as well as vaccine development Correlation is a vital element in epilepsy research, chapter begins with one or more patient cases for and diagnostics. Written in the highly successful especially given the condition’s notorious resistance inspiration. Each case is then presented to illustrate Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, to treatment. 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By taking a unique clinical one of the fast growing applications in biomedical etc.- Section 1 Animal Partial.- Chapter 1: Simple neuroengineering approach, From Neurology to research, becoming an indispensable tool in vaccine Partial.- Chapter 2: Complex Partial.- Section 2 Methodology and Back off ers a translational study development, HIV research, transplantation studies, Animal Generalized.- Chapter 3: Tonic Clonic.- of neurology and technology, spanning traditionally and cancer and allergy research. The second edition Chapter 4: Tonic.-Chapter 5: Atonic.- Chapter distinct focuses. 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Society for the Study of Inborn Errors o, SSIEM, London, UK (Ed.) J.R. Turner, Quintiles, Durham, NC, USA B. Kuster, LS für Proteomik und Bioanalytik, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany (Ed.) JIMD Reports - Case and Research Key Statistical Concepts in Clinical Reports, 2011/2 Trials for Pharma Kinase Inhibitors Methods and Protocols
JIMD Reports publishes case and short research This Brief discusses key statistical concepts that Protein and lipid kinases are often the master reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. facilitate the inferential analysis of data collected regulators of cell signaling in eukaryotic systems. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously from a group of individuals participating in a The human genome codes for more than 500 of unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve pharmaceutical clinical trial, the estimation of these enzymes and their misregulation has been as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical their clinical significance in the general population shown to be involved in the onset and progression of features of a Mendelian disorder. of individuals likely to be prescribed the drug if many diseases including cancer and inflammation. approved, and the related decision-making that Therefore, small molecule kinase inhibitors have Features occurs at both the public health level (by regulatory become important research tools for the elucidation JIMD Reports publishes case and short research agencies when deciding whether or not to approve a of the many biological roles of kinases and their reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. new drug for marketing) and the individual patient mechanisms of action. Kinase inhibitors thus also Case reports highlight some unusual or previously level (by physicians and their patients when deciding contribute significantly to the drug pipelines of the unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve whether or not the patient should be prescribed a pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and to as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical drug that is on the market). These concepts include the growing need to treat cancer and inflammation. features of a Mendelian disorder. drug safety and efficacy, statistical significance, In Kinase Inhibitors: Methods and Protocols, experts clinical significance, and benefit-risk balance. Fields of interest in kinase biology, drug discovery, and clinical research present a series of exemplary methods that Human Genetics; Metabolic Diseases; Pediatrics; Features can be used to address the many challenges facing Human Physiology This Brief discusses key statistical concepts that scientists in the discovery and development of kinase facilitate the inferential analysis of data collected inhibitors both for research and clinical use. Written Target groups from a group of individuals participating in a in the highly successful Methods in Molecular[..] Research pharmaceutical clinical trial, the estimation of their clinical significance in the general population Type of publication Features of individuals likely to be prescribed the drug if Contributed volume Protein and lipid kinases are often the master approved, and the related decision-making that regulators of cell signaling in eukaryotic systems. occurs at both the public health level (by regulatory The human genome codes for more than 500 of Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days [..] these enzymes and their misregulation has been shown to be involved in the onset and progression of Fields of interest 2012. VII, 123 p. 31 illus., 11 in color. (JIMD Reports, Vol. many diseases including cancer and inflammation. Biomedicine (general); Pharmaceutical Sciences / 2) Softcover Therefore, small molecule kinase inhibitors have Technology become important research tools for the elucidation 99,95 € Target groups of the many [..] ISBN 978-3-642-24757-6 Research Contents Type of publication Targeting Cancer with Small Molecular Weight Brief Kinase Inhibitors.- Small Molecule Protein and Lipid Kinase Inhibitors in Inflammation and Specific Models for their Evaluation.- Measuring the Activity Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days of Leucine Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) – A Kinase Involved in Parkinson’s Disease.- Measuring 2012. IX, 61 p. 1 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical PI3K Lipid Kinase Activity.- A Fluorescence Science & Drug Development) Softcover Polarization Assay for the Discovery of Inhibitors of the Polo-box Domain of Polo-like Kinase 1.- 49,95 € Assessment of Hepatotoxicity Potential of Drug ISBN 978-1-4614-1661-6 Candidate Molecules Including Kinase Inhibitors by Hepatocyte Imaging Assay Technology and Bile Flux Imaging[..]
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Y. Takayama, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland W.C.S. Cho, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China (Ed.) G.A. Silva, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA; V. Parpura, Science, Tsukuba, Japan University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA (Eds.) Materia Medica for Various Cancers Lactoferrin and its Role in Wound Nanotechnology for Biology and
Healing Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world Medicine and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer At the Building Block Level Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein patients and cancer survivors suffer much from belonging to the transferrin family. It acts as a the disease and its conventional treatments’ side This text book will bring together a mix of defense in host animals against microbes and viruses, effects. In the past, clinical data showed that both internationally known and established since it has a broad spectrum of antimicrobial and some complementary and alternative medicine senior scientists along side up and coming (but antiviral activities. Lactoferrin has been shown to (CAM) possessed anticancer abilities, but some already accomplished) junior scientists that have regulate the growth and differentiation of many clinicians and scientists have queried about the varying expertise in fundamental and applied types of cells. The results of recent studies indicate scientific validity of CAM due to the lack of scientific nanotechnology to biology and medicine. that lactoferrin is a potent regulator of dermal evidence. There is great demand in the knowledge fibroblasts, and promotes cutaneous wound healing. gap to explore the scientific and evidence-based Features The collagen gel contraction, a model of wound knowledge of CAM in the anticancer field. With this Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine: At contraction during wound healing process, and aim, a book series is needed to structurally deliver the Building Block Level introduces the reader to migration of human fibroblasts were enhanced the knowledge to readers. There have been a number current cutting-edge approaches being pursued for by lactoferrin. LRP-1 (LDL Receptor related of publications on materia medica for various the design and development of nanotechnology Protein-1) acts as a signaling receptor for lactoferrin cancers in recent years, the scientific and medical applications to different areas of biology and that mediate fibroblast response to lactoferrin community are thrust for up-to-date information medicine. It discusses the key biological challenges at by activating ERK/MAPK signaling pathway. In that are supported by concrete laboratory evidences the molecular and cellular levels being faced by this addition, lactoferrin promotes biosynthesis of or clinical trials. This volume is a specialised book new field, and some of the strategies being [..] extracellular matrix (ECM) component such as presenting the experimental and clinical evidences of Contents type-I collagen and hyaluronan. Hyaluronan is a anticancer[..] 1. Structure and biology of the cellular environment: major component of ECM in connective tissue and Features The extracellular matrix.- 2. Synthesis and promotes wound healing. The promoting[..] Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world patterning methods for nanostructures useful for Features and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer biological applications.- 3. Characterization of “Lactoferrin and its Role in Wound Healing” patients and cancer survivors suffer much from nanoscale biological systems: Multimodal Atomic summarizes the recent advances of molecular the disease and its conventional treatments’ side Force microscopy for Nanoimaging, nanomechanics mechanisms of wound healing. It is a complex effects. In the past, clinical data showed that some and biomolecular interactions .- 4. Molecular motors physiological process that requires the regulation complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and machines.- 5. Micro and Nano Engineered of different types of cells such as immune cells, possessed anticancer abilities, but some clinicians Extracellular Matrices.- 6. Designer self-assembling keratinocytes, fibroblasts, and endothelial and scientists have queried about the scientific peptide nanofiber scaffold.- 7. Quantum Dot cells.Lactoferrin was first identified as an iron- validity of CAM [..] Imaging of Neural Cells and Tissue.- 8. Quantum binding glycoprotein abundantly found in milk. It Dot Nanotechnologies for Neuroimaging .- 9. Contents has been considered to [..] Carbon[..] 1. Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Medica for Contents Lung Cancer.- 2. Evidence-based Anticancer Materia Fields of interest 1. Molecular regulation of wound healing, - 2. Role Medica for Colorectal Cancer.- 3. An Overview Biomedicine (general); Nanotechnology; of hyaluronan in wound healing, - 3. 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I. Brouns, University of Antwerp, Belgium; I. Pintelon, University A.L. Ronco, IUCLAEH, Maldonado, Uruguay; E. De Stéfani, P. O’Campo, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto , ON, Canada; J.R. of Antwerp, Belgium; J.-P. Timmermans, University of Antwerp, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay Dunn, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (Eds.) Belgium; D. Adriaensen, University of Antwerp, Belgium Nutritional Epidemiology of Breast Rethinking Social Epidemiology Novel Insights in the Cancer Neurochemistry and Function of Towards a Science of Change To date, much of the empirical work in social Pulmonary Sensory Receptors The book is the first one published exclusively on the epidemiology has demonstrated the existence field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer. of health inequalities along a number of axes of It summarizes the currently existing knowledge, With the advances of immunohistochemistry social differentiation. However, this research, in with an updated and comprehensive international in combination with confocal microscopy, isolation, will not inform effective solutions to bibliography (~ 1.000 references). The authors airway sensory receptor end-organs can now be health inequalities. Rethinking Social Epidemiology also performed a review on the epidemiological examined and evaluated objectively. Based on their provides an expanded vision of social epidemiology studies on nutrition and breast cancer carried ‘neurochemical coding’, morphology, location as a science of change, one that seeks to better out in Uruguay between 1994 and 2011, which and origin, three sensory receptor end organs are address key questions related to both the allowed exploring and identifying the main risk currently morphologically well-characterised: causes of social inequalities in health (problem- and protective factors for the disease in this high- smooth muscle-associated airway receptors focused research) as well as the implementation risk country. Epidemiologists, Nutritionists, Public (SMARs), neuroepithelial bodies (NEBs) and visceral of interventions to alleviate conditions of Health managers and breast specialists –from the pleura receptors (VPRs). The present information marginalization and poverty (solution-focused prevention to the treatment fields – will find in this on the functional morphological and neurochemical research). This book is ideally suited for emerging book a unique source of technical information, characteristics of these sensory receptors, leads and practicing social epidemiologists as well as which will contribute in expanding their knowledge to important conclusions about their (possible) graduate students and health professionals in related and view of the disease. function. disciplines. Features Features Features The book is the first one published exclusively on the Airway sensory nerve terminals are tailored To date, much of the empirical work in social field of nutritional epidemiology of breast cancer. to detect changes in the physical and chemical epidemiology has demonstrated the existence It summarizes the currently existing knowledge, environment, thereby supplying local pulmonary of health inequalities along a number of axes of with an updated and comprehensive international information to the central nervous system. Since social differentiation. However, this research, in bibliography (~ 1.000 references). The authors most intrapulmonary nerve terminals arise isolation, will not inform effective solutions to also performed a review on the epidemiological from fibres travelling in the vagal nerve, the health inequalities. Rethinking Social Epidemiology studies on nutrition and breast cancer carried out classification of ‘sensory airway receptors’ is largely provides an expanded vision of social epidemiology in Uruguay between 1994 and 2011, which allowed based on their action potential characteristics, as a science of change, one that seeks to better exploring [..] electrophysiologically [..] address key [..] Contents Fields of interest Contents Preface.-1. general epidemiology of breast cancer Human Physiology; Neurochemistry Foreword.-1. Introduction. Section I: Foundations.-2 in the world .-I. Current knowledge.-2. Energy and “Explanation,” Philosophy and Theory in Health related factors.-3. Foods.-4. Nutrients.-5. Vitamins Target groups Inequalities Research: Towards a Critical Realist and bioactive substances.-6. Alcohol and other Research Approach.-3 Values and Social Epidemiologic beverages.-7. Dietary patterns.-8. Polyunsaturated Research.-4 Population-based Data and Community Type of publication fatty acids.-9. Insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome Empowerment.-5 Differences That Matter. Section Monograph and breast cancer the research in Uruguay.-10. II: Context.- 6 Place-based Stress and Chronic Methodology.- 11. The role of foods.-12. The role Disease: A Systems View of Environmental of nutrients and other substance.-13. The role Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Determinants.-7 How Goes The Neighbourhood? of anthropometry.-14. Foods and nutrients for Rethinking Neighbourhoods and Health Research in secondary prevention: risk classification through Social Epidemiology.-8 Application of Two Schools 2012. XII, 118 p. 23 illus., 21 in color. (Advances in artificial intelligence.-II. 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M.A. Hayat, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA (Ed.) M.A. Hayat, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA (Ed.) K.-S. Soh, Nano Primo Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; K.A. Kang, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA; D.K. Harrison, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Eds.) Volume 1 Volume 2 The Primo Vascular System Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Therapeutic Applications in Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury: Volume 1 Disease and Injury: Volume 2 Its Role in Cancer and Regeneration
Difference between tissue specific stem cells and As in volume 1 of this series, this volume presents Proceedings from the first International Symposium embryonic stem cells is explained. The advantages information on stem cells and cancer stem cells; on Primo Vascular System 2010 (ISPS 2010) with of the latter are included. The application of human Therapeutic Applications in disease and tissue/organ special topics on cancer and regeneration was pluripotent stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, injury. Methodologies of regenerative medicine and held in Jecheon, Korea during September 17-18, and hematopoietic stem cells in cancer therapy tissue engineering are major components of this 2010. Includes coverage of new study results that and tissue/organ regeneration is detailed. Role of volume. Specific stem cells discussed are: human have better revealed the functional aspects of PVS, neural cancer stem cells in brain tumors, including embryonic stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells, including its roles in the areas of regenerative their role in brain tumor therapy and the role of cord blood stem cells, human pluripotent stem cells, medicine and cancer. CD133 stem cell antigen in glioma patients, is gliosarcoma stem cells, induced pluripotent stem emphasized. Therapeutic role of bone marrow- cells, intestinal stem cells, human thyroid cancer Features derived stem cells in myocardial infarction and stem cells, tumor stem cells, menstrual stem-like The first International Symposium on Primo the role of mesenchymal stem cells in orthopedics cells, neural stem cells, breast cancer stem cells, Vascular System 2010 (ISPS 2010) with special are explained. 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Part I.Neuronal Stem Cells.-4. Neural Crest dilution competitive repopulation assays.3. Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Human Cell-Derived Tumors: An Overview.-5. Therapeutic Characteristics of cord blood stem cells: role of Physiology; Cell Physiology Neural Stem Cells for Brain Tumor Therapy.-6. substance p (sp) and calcitonin gene-related peptide Brain Tumors: Role of Neural Cancer Stem Cells. (cgrp).- 4. A new concept of stem cell disorders, and Target groups Part II.Gliomas.-7. Targeting Cancer Stem Cells with the rationale for transplantation of normal stem Research Phytochemicals: Inhibition of the Rat C6 Glioma cells.- 5. Differentiation of human embryonic stem Side Population by Curcumin.-8. Glioma Patients: cells into functional hepatocyte-like cells (method).- Type of publication Role of CD133 Stem Cell Antigen.-9. Cancer Stem 6. Stem cell mobilization: an overview.-[..] Proceedings Cells in Brain Gliomas.-10. 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C. Tidona, Waldbrunn, Heidelberg, Germany; G. Darai, University C. Tidona, Waldbrunn, Heidelberg, Germany; G. Darai, University M.A. Hayat, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA (Ed.) of Heidelberg, Germany (Eds.) of Heidelberg, Germany (Eds.) Tumors of the Central Nervous The Springer Index of Viruses The Springer Index of Viruses System, Volume 4
The continuous growth of knowledege makes it very The continuous growth of knowledege makes it very Brain Tumors (Part 2) difficult for scientists to retrieve comprehensive and difficult for scientists to retrieve comprehensive and This volume mainly contains information on the accurate data on viruses. The desired information is accurate data on viruses. The desired information is diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of brain tumors. often dispersed in a variety of books, journals and often dispersed in a variety of books, journals and Insights on the understanding of molecular pathways online resources. This encyclopedia presents the online resources. This encyclopedia presents the involved in tumor biology are explained, which latest facts about all known virus in a standardized latest facts about all known virus in a standardized should lead to the development of effective drugs. form created by hundreds of the world's leading form created by hundreds of the world's leading Information on pathways (e.g., hedgehog) facilitates virologists. Virus taxonomy represents the basic virologists. Virus taxonomy represents the basic targeted therapies in cancer. Tumor models are framework that allows an understanding of the framework that allows an understanding of the also presented, which utilize expression data, complex evolutionary process that continuously complex evolutionary process that continuously pathway sensitivity, and genetic abnormalities, takes place among viruses and their hosts. Each of takes place among viruses and their hosts. Each of representing targets in cancer. For example, rat the 300 taxonomically ordered chapters includes the 300 taxonomically ordered chapters includes model of malignant brain tumors using implantation detailed information on individual genus members, detailed information on individual genus members, of doxorubicin with drug eluting beads for delivery historical events, the hosts they can affect (animal, historical events, the hosts they can affect (animal, is explained. The future of pathway-driven therapies man or plant), virion morphology, genome man or plant), virion morphology, genome for tumors is summarized. The importance of properties, replication strategy, properties of properties, replication strategy, properties of personalizing cancer care is emphasized. The need individual transcripts and proteins, sequence individual transcripts and proteins, sequence for supportive measures for survivors of brain cancer accession numbers, biological properties, diseases, accession numbers, biological properties, diseases, is pointed out, so is the quality of life monitoring. recombinant vector constructs, vaccine strains, key recombinant vector constructs, vaccine strains, key The need of rehabilitation therapy for patients references, as well as a high-resolution particle image references, as well as a high-resolution particle image with primary and metastatic brain tumors is also and a drawing[..] and a drawing[..] emphasized. 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K.M. Wasylyshyn B.R. Scott, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA S.E. Shmelev, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Behind the Executive Door Capitalism Ecological Economics
Unexpected Lessons for Managing Your Boss and Career Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Sustainability in Practice
Sigmund Freud meets Peter Drucker … Behind the Two systems of governance, capitalism and In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents Executive Door is a revealing look at the behavior democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating the state of the art in ecological economics, an of top business leaders—and how the next level of simultaneously in partially distinct domains, interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis aspiring managers can learn to navigate the political these systems rely on indirect governance through of sustainability of global, national and regional and personal landscape. Based on over 25 years of regulated competition to coordinate actors; economic systems. An elegant guide, the book psychotherapy and consulting experiences, as well inevitably, these systems influence and transform offers a range of cutting edge methods used in as extensive empirical research, Karol Wasylyshyn each other. This book rejects the simple equation sustainability research including multicriteria has identified a dynamic continuum of executive of capitalism with markets in favor of a three-level decision aid (MCDA), input-output analysis, and life behaviors that are manifested in three specific types system, a model which recognizes that markets are cycle analysis. This book is packed with references of business leaders – Remarkable, Perilous, and administered by regulators through institutions and for students with some background in economics, Toxic. She describes these types in accessible terms governed by a political authority with the power to environmental science or mathematics who aim to with the intertwined goals of helping readers (1) regulate behavior, punish transgressors, and redesign develop the analytical skills required for redirecting recognize these behaviors and leadership types and institutions. This system's emergence required the our development path towards sustainability in (2) leverage this information to increase their savvy sovereign to relinquish some power in order to government, international organisations, academia, and effectiveness in the workplace. In the wake release the energies of economic actors. Rather than non-profit sector and business. As such, the book is of Sarbanes-Oxley and the increased scrutiny of spreading through an unguided natural process primarily aimed at MSc and first year PhD students business executives, we have learned that how they like trade, capitalism emerged where competitive reading for degrees in Environmental Change and lead is often their undoing – or at least it is a pressing pressures forced political authorities to take risks in Management, Ecological Economics, Environmental development need and/or potential derailment order to achieve increased revenues by permitting Management, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, factor. In short, despite financial or[..] markets for land, labor, and capital. and those taking part in similar programmes. The book strives to develop[..] Features Features Sigmund Freud meets Peter Drucker … Behind the Two systems of governance, capitalism and Features Executive Door is a revealing look at the behavior democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating in In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents of top business leaders – and how the next level partly overlapping domains, these systems influence the state of the art in ecological economics, an of aspiring managers can learn to navigate the and transform each other, but the nature of this interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis political and personal landscape. Through a variety interaction is often misunderstood -- largely because of sustainability of global, national and regional of reflective and action-oriented exercises, she capitalism has not been recognized as a system economic systems. An elegant guide, the book guides readers to recognize the characteristics of of governance. Rejecting the simple definition offers a range of cutting edge methods used in Remarkable, Perilous, and Toxic [..] "capitalism = actions of firms in markets," Harvard's sustainability research including multicriteria Bruce R. [..] decision aid (MCDA), input-output analysis, and life Contents cycle [..] PART I Understanding the Behavior Contents of Business Leaders Chapter 1 The The Globalization of Markets and the Resilience Contents “How” of Leadership – An Era of Behavior of Capitalist Democracies: Observable Trends Part I: Theory of Ecological Economics.- Scrutiny Chapter 2 The Remarkable and Explanatory Theory: Globalization and Introduction.- 1. The Economic System and the Business Leader Chapter 3 The Perilous Income Convergence.- The Political Economy of Environment.- 2. Industrial Ecology: Material Business Leader Chapter 4 The Toxic Capitalism.- Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality. and Energy Flows, Life Cycle Analysis.- 3. Business Leader Chapter 5 Leadership Creating Capitalism, with or Without Democracy: The Big Picture Vision and the Environment: Type Survey – What Type of Leader is Your Creating Capitalism in Europe.- Creating Capitalism An International Perspective.- 4. Economic Boss? PART II LESSONS for Managing and Democracy in the United States: The Symbiosis Valuation and Decision Making: MCDA as a Business Leaders Chapter 6 Managing of Two Systems of Governance (1630-1830).- tool for the Future.- 5. Macroeconomy: Market a Remarkable Boss Chapter 7 Managing a Creating Capitalism in Latin America. Barriers Failures and Externalities: What Can Be Done.- 6. Perilous Boss Chapter 8 Managing a[..] to Development in Capitalist Democracies: One Economic Models and the Environment: Input- Country-Two Systems: The Case of Italy- One Output Analysis.- 7. Sustainable Development: Fields of interest Country - Two Systems: The[..] Measuring Progress.- Part II: Ecological-Economic Business & Economics (general); Personnel Applications.- 8. Climate Change and Renewable Management; Industrial and organisational Fields of interest Energy:[..] psychology Development Economics; History; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Political Science, Fields of interest Target groups general Business & Economics (general); Environment Popular/general (general); Renewable and Green Energy; Operation Target groups Research / Decision Theory; Non-Profit Enterprises/ Type of publication Research Corporate Social Responsibility Professional book Type of publication Target groups Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Monograph Graduate
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N. Hautsch, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany S. Jeschke, RWTH Aachen, Germany; I. Isenhardt, RWTH Aachen, H. Wiesmeth, TU Dresden, Germany Germany; F. Hees, RWTH Aachen, Germany; S. Trantow, RWTH Aachen, Germany (Eds.) Econometrics of Financial High- Environmental Economics
Frequency Data Enabling Innovation Theory and Policy in Equilibrium
Innovative Capability - German and International Views This text provides an analysis and investigation of The availability of financial data recorded on the most essential areas of environmental theory high-frequency level has inspired a research area The capability to innovate in an on-going manner is and policy, including international environmental which over the last decade emerged to a major emerging as a decisive key factor in today's world of problems. The approach is based on standard area in econometrics and statistics. The growing business and work. The ability to stay competitive is theoretical tools, in particular equilibrium analysis, popularity of high-frequency econometrics is driven becoming identical with the ability to innovate. This and aims to demonstrate how economic principles by technological progress in trading systems and book originated from the research and development can help to understand environmental issues and an increasing importance of intraday trading, project “International Monitoring” and outlines guide policymakers. Current topics including climate liquidity risk, optimal order placement as well as the topic of innovative capability from a practice- change, overfishing and integrated approaches to high-frequency volatility. This book provides a state- oriented angle. Contributions of German and environmental policies are carefully analyzed in this of-the art overview on the major approaches in international experts offer an enlightening glimpse framework, and a multitude of practical examples high-frequency econometrics, including univariate behind the scenes of innovations. The central issue from various parts of the world is presented. and multivariate autoregressive conditional mean is not the description of features of successful approaches for different types of high-frequency innovation processes or how innovations can be Features variables, intensity-based approaches for financial efficiently controlled and managed, but under which This text provides an analysis and investigation of point processes and dynamic factor models. It conditions they can emerge in the first place. In the most essential areas of environmental theory discusses implementation details, provides insights what way can individuals, organizations, networks and policy, including international environmental into properties of high-frequency data as well as and societies be enabled to continuously induce problems. The approach is based on standard institutional settings and presents applications innovations? theoretical tools, in particular equilibrium analysis, to volatility and liquidity estimation, order book and aims to demonstrate how economic principles modelling and market microstructure analysis. Features can help to understand environmental issues and The capability to innovate in an on-going manner is guide policymakers. Current topics including climate Features emerging as a decisive key factor in today's world of change, [..] The availability of financial data recorded on business and work. The ability to stay competitive is high-frequency level has inspired a research area becoming identical with the ability to innovate. This Contents which over the last decade emerged to a major book originated from the research and development Introduction.- Part I: The Environmental area in econometrics and statistics. 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E. Kals, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany; J. D.G. Assimakopoulos, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, P. Servatius, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland Maes, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany (Eds.) France; E.G. Carayannis, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; R. Dossani, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (Eds.) Network Economics and the Justice and Conflicts Allocation of Savings Theoretical and Empirical Contributions Knowledge Perspectives of New A Model of Peering in the Voice-over-IP Telecommunications Central to the book are questions concerning the Product Development Market existence and the characteristics of justice motives, A Comparative Approach This book provides a game theoretic model of and concerning the influence that justice motives interaction among VoIP telecommunications and justice judgements have on the emergence, New Product Development (NPD) is about the providers regarding their willingness to enter peering but also the solution of social conflicts. Five main ideation, formulation, and implementation of agreements with one another. The author shows that themes will be addressed: (1) “Introduction and new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the incentive to peer is generally based on savings justice motive”, (2) “organizational justice”, (3) the obvious need for organizations to innovate in from otherwise payable long distance fees. At the “ecological justice”, (4) “social conflicts”, and order to compete, embedded in any NPD program same time, termination fees can have a countering (5) “solution of conflicts”. The authors of the are knowledge, technological expertise, and the and dominant effect, resulting in an environment in editions are scholars of psychology, as well as social networks that convert these capabilities which VoIP firms decide against peering. Various distinguished experts from various other disciplines, into offerings that create value at every level—for scenarios of peering and rules for allocation of the including sociologists, economists, legal scholar, customers, industries, communities, and regions. savings are considered. The first part covers the educationalists, and ethicists. The common ground This volume provides an array of knowledge relevant aspects of game theory and network theory, of all contributors is their independent conduction perspective in NPD across multiple levels of analysis trying to give an overview of the concepts required of empirical research on justice issues. Apart from and geographic regions, including Europe, the in the subsequent application. The second part of the German contributors, authors represent scholars United States, China, Japan, and India, to explore the the book introduces first a model of how the savings from the US, India, Korea, New Zealand, and various dynamics of NPD in today’s global environment. from peering can be calculated and then turns to the European countries (Austria, Switzerland, the Presenting case studies from such industries as ICT actual formation of peering relationships between Netherlands, UK, Sweden). services, semiconductors, software development, VoIP firms. The conditions under which firms are bio-technology, higher education, and even safety Features willing to peer are then described, considering the for children’s toys, and drawing from a variety possible influence of a regulatory body. Central to the book are questions concerning the of theoretical perspectives, including technology existence and the characteristics of justice motives, and knowledge management, sociology, economic Features and concerning the influence that justice motives geography, and organizational behavior,[..] This book provides a game theoretic model of and justice judgements have on the emergence, but interaction among VoIP telecommunications also the solution of social conflicts. Five main themes Features providers regarding their willingness to enter peering will be addressed: (1) “Introduction and justice New Product Development (NPD) is about the agreements with one another. The author shows that motive”, (2) “organizational justice”, (3) “ecological ideation, formulation, and implementation of the incentive to peer is generally based on savings justice”, (4) “social conflicts”, and (5) [..] new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond from otherwise payable long distance fees. At the the obvious need for organizations to innovate in same time, termination fees can have a countering Contents order to compete, embedded in any NPD program The Normative Impact of Empirical Justice and dominant effect, resulting in an environment in are knowledge, technological expertise, and the which VoIP firms [..] Research.- Advances in Justice Conflict social networks that convert these capabilities Conceptualization: A New Integrative Framework.- into offerings that create value at every level—for Contents Absence and Presence: Interpreting Moral customers, industries, [..] Motivation and Nontechnical Overview.- Exclusion in the Jewish Museum Berlin.- On the Selected Theoretical Concepts: The Theory Differentiation of an Implicit and a Self-Attributed Contents of Games.- Network Theory in Economics. Justice Motive.- About Is and Ought in Research How Path Dependency Affects Innovative Behavior Applications to Peering in Telecommunications: on Belief in a Just World: The Janus-faced just- of Firms Factors Affecting the Performance of New Telecommunications and the Internet.- A Model of world motivation.- Justice Sensitivity as a Risk and Product Development Teams: Some European Peering Among VoIP Firms.- Network Formation Protective Factor in Social Conflicts.- Suspicions Evidence 3. Knowledge Flows in an NPD Team in Peering.- Concluding Remarks.- Selected of Injustice: The Sense-making Function of Belief from the Semiconductor IndustryStrategies for Mathematical Concepts. in Conspiracy Theories.- Justice in Performance Fostering Local New Service Development Teams Situations: Compromise[..] in CapGemini and the MINALOGIC Cluster in Fields of interest Grenoble Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Microeconomics; Game Theory / Mathematical Fields of interest Enterprises in European Regions Competencies Methods; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Business & Economics (general); Social Policy; Law for the “Technological Europe” of Tomorrow: A Behav. 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D.M. Levinson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; W. Heijman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; P. von T. Addabbo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, H.X. Liu, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; M. Bell, Mouche, Wageningen University, The Netherlands (Eds.) Italy; G. Solinas, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Imperial College, London, England (Eds.) Modena, Italy (Eds.) New Insights into the Theory of Network Reliability in Practice Giffen Goods Non-Standard Employment and Selected Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Quality of Work Transportation Network Reliability One might expect that after their identification in The Case of Italy This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers the 19th century, all aspects of Giffen goods would The international literature on non-standard that were presented at the Fourth International have been studied by now. This appears not to be the employment has mostly focussed on its impact on Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability case. This book contains the latest insights into the employment, and more recently on working and (INSTR) Conference held at the University theory of Giffen goods. In the past, surprisingly few living conditions. This volume explores these issues of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International goods could be categorized as “Giffen.” This may be with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, because of a lack of understanding of the character by very low participation rates (particularly economics, geography, planning and transportation of these goods. Therefore, the theories explained in women’s), a high degree of fragmentation of labour —offer varying perspectives on modeling and this book may also produce a solid basis for further contracts and a very intense non-standard work analysis of the reliability of transportation networks empirical research in the field. Experts throughout diffusion that make this context a particularly in order to illustrate both vulnerability to day-to-day the world have contributed to this book, which interesting case for analysis. New elements of and unpredictability variability and risk in travel, predominantly pursues a mathematically rigorous discussion are provided with reference to the and demonstrates strategies for addressing those approach. It may be used by researchers in the field interaction of non-standard work, employment issues. The scope of the chapters includes all aspects of fundamental economics and in graduate-level probability and living conditions. Interesting of analysis and design to improve network reliability, courses in advanced microeconomics. insights on the impact of non-standard work on specifically user perception of unreliability of public the transition to stable employment and workers’ transport, public policy and reliability of travel times, Features careers emerge, suggesting a possible failure of the valuation and economics of reliability, network One might expect that after their identification in companies’ internal systems of work evaluation. The reliability modeling and estimation, travel behavior the 19th century, all aspects of Giffen goods would effects on labour productivity and on companies’ and vehicle routing under uncertainty, and risk have been studied by now. This appears not to be the performance are analysed. Within this framework, a evaluation and management for transportation[..] case. This book contains the latest insights into the theory of Giffen goods. In the past, surprisingly few new perspective on quality of work is suggested. Features goods could be categorized as “Giffen.” This may be Features This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers because of a lack of understanding of the character of The international literature on non-standard that were presented at the Fourth International these goods. Therefore, the theories [..] employment has mostly focussed on its impact on Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability employment, and more recently on working and (INSTR) Conference held at the University Contents living conditions. This volume explores these issues of Minnesota July 22-23, 2010. International Introduction.- Notes on Some Theories of Giffen with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized scholars, from a variety of disciplines--engineering, Behaviour.- Exact and Useful Optimization Methods by very low participation rates (particularly economics, geography, planning and transportation for Microeconomics.- On the Definitions of Giffen women’s), a high degree of fragmentation of labour —offer varying perspectives on modeling and and Inferior Goods.- Giffen Behaviour and Strong contracts and a very intense non-standard work analysis of the reliability of [..] Assymetric Gross Substituability.- A Child Garden of Concrete Giffen Utility Functions: a Theoretical diffusion that make [..] Fields of interest Review.- On Giffen's Paradox.- Giffen Demand for Contents Economic Policy; Public Finance & Economics; R & Several Goods.- Giffen Behaviour Independent of the Introduction.- Part I: Non-Standard Employment, D / Technology Policy; Regional Science Wealth Level.- A Class of Indirect Utility Functions Predicting Giffen Behaviour.- Close Substitutes and Labour Supply and Living Conditions.- Part II: Target groups Upward-Sloping Demand Curves.- Lotteries and the Non-Standard Employment, Workers' Mobility Professional/practitioner Law of Demand. and Labour Market Structure.- Part III: Part- Time Employment, Working Conditions and Job Type of publication Fields of interest Attributes.- Part IV: Non-Standard Employment, Proceedings Economic Theory; Microeconomics; Optimization Quality of Work and Firms' Outcomes.
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H. Melkas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland; V. D. Heinrichs, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) D. Sternad, FH Kärnten, Villach, Österreich Harmaakorpi, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland e.V. - Institut für Verkehrsforschung; K. Krellenberg, Helmholtz (Eds.) Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; B. Hansjürgens, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - Strategic Adaptation UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; F. Martínez, Santiago, Chile (Eds.) Practice-Based Innovation: Cross-Cultural Differences in Company Responses to Economic Crisis Insights, Applications and Policy Risk Habitat Megacity Implications How do companies adapt their strategies when they are faced with a global economic crisis? Do Megacity development and the inherent risks and managers in different countries differ in the way The book describes and analyses the new opportunities for humans and the environment is they react to major changes in their companies’ environment for innovation, it does this with an a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. environment? Is national culture influencing emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is adaptation strategies in times of crisis? “Strategic field of practice-based innovation, coming up most advanced, this book studies the complexity of Adaptation” explores the processes that are at work with guidelines for innovation policy measures a ‘mega-urban system’ and explores interrelations when companies adapt to environmental change needed in order to realise this. While it focuses between sectors and issues by providing an in-depths – from strategic issue diagnosis and decision- on these policies it also takes into account multi- study of one particular city, Santiago de Chile. The making processes (including political behaviour and actor innovation processes, user-driven innovation, book attempts to (i) focus on the emergence of conflicts) to the specific strategic actions in response "related variety" and many other aspects; aspects risk in megacities by analyzing risk elements, (ii) to economic downturn. Based on both a qualitative such as, just to name a few: communicating evaluate the extent and severity of risks, (iii) develop and a quantitative empirical study among managers creative processes and distributing practice- strategies to cope with adverse risks, and (iv) to in Austria and Slovenia, this book explores how based innovation; then there is creativity itself, guide urban development by combining concepts firms in the two countries strategically reacted to the encompassing new fields of knowledge and expertise. with empirical evidence.Drawing on the work of 2008-09 financial and economic crisis and – taking The authors go on to describe value networks, an interdisciplinary and international consortium cultural differences into account – how their decision showing how to make practice-based innovations, of academic and professional partners, the book is processes and strategic actions in response to the explaining innovation diffusion and absorptive written for scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, crisis differed. capacity. The book presents new insights as well as sustainability, hazard, governance and planning the latest research related to the frequently used term research as well as practitioners from local, regional Features "innovation". Definitions are put forward, giving, by and international organizations. How do companies adapt their strategies when they way of examples, a detailed description of concepts are faced with a global economic crisis? Do managers we draw upon when using these.[..] Features in different countries differ in the way they react to Megacity development and the inherent risks and major changes in their companies’ environment? Is Features opportunities for humans and the environment is national culture influencing adaptation strategies in The book describes and analyses the new a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. times of crisis? “Strategic Adaptation” explores the environment for innovation, it does this with an Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is processes that are at work when companies adapt to emphasis on yet uncharted regions within the most advanced, this book studies the complexity of environmental change – from [..] field of practice-based innovation, coming up a ‘mega-urban system’ and explores interrelations with guidelines for innovation policy measures between sectors and issues by providing an in-depths Contents needed in order to realise this. While it focuses study of one particular city, Santiago de Chile. The 1. Introduction.- 1.1 Creating and maintaining on these policies it also takes into account multi- book [..] value through adaptation.- 1.2 Cultural influences actor innovation processes, user-driven innovation, on strategic adaptation.- 2. Overview of the "related variety" and many [..] Contents research design.- 3. Overview of key concepts.- 3.1 Foreword.- Part I: A Challenge for Research and Strategy and strategic decision-making.- 3.2 Major Contents Implementation.- Part II: Developing the Conceptual environmental changes.- 3.3 Adaptation as a concept Insights into Practice-Based Innovation and Framework.- Part III: Exploring Policy Fields.- Part in strategic management.- 3.4 National culture Innovation Strategies.- Micro-, Meso- and Regional IV: Synthesis and Perspectives. as an influencing factor on managerial decision- Level Applications.- Case Studies and Policy making.- 3.5 Summary of the key concepts.- 4. The Fields of interest Implications. strategic adaptation process: a literature review.- 4.1 Environmental Economics; Science; Landscape, Different approaches to adaptation.- 4.2 Cognitive Regional and Urban Planning; Political Science, Fields of interest perspectives of the strategic adaptation[..] Organization / Planning; R & D / Technology Policy; general Pragmatism Fields of interest Target groups Business & Economics (general) Target groups Research Research Target groups Type of publication Professional/practitioner Type of publication Contributed volume Contributed volume Type of publication Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Monograph Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days 2012. XXVI, 363 p. 75 illus., 8 in color. Hardcover Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. 2012. XIII, 452 p. 73 illus., 16 in color. Hardcover 139,95 € 2011. XIII, 257 p. 25 illus. 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Strategic Outsourcing Taxation, Growth and Fiscal The Greek Economy and the Crisis
The Alchemy to Business Transformation in a Globally Institutions Challenges and Responses Converged World A Political and Economic Analysis The book “The Greek Economy and the Crisis. This book provides a road-map to successful Challenges and Responses” targets all those who implementation of strategic outsourcing Fields of interest think about the present and future of this (culturally) programmes, providing down-to-earth approaches Business Taxation long-lived small geographic region (Greece), to form to outsourcing decision making and programme a personal view of its social and economic problems. management, based on a grass-roots understanding. Target groups A society that repeats the same types of behaviour A practitioner-focused book for business leaders Research over the centuries does not do so due to random and managers providing a holistic view of strategic mistakes. It contains intrinsic forces that affect it. outsourcing, covering the three essential pillars Type of publication These should be understood, to allow us to delineate of success: risks, rewards and relationships. Brief future developments. However, the manner in which The author shows how business leaders can the social and economic process is perceived must be transform organisational business models, structures Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days comprehensive and multidisciplinary: Economics, and mind-sets, taking the reader on a journey politics, social psychology and organizational through the book's fifteen chapters, helping psychology are essential to this analysis. Thus, the the reader truly grasp: the drivers for change as 2012. XIV, 61 p. 1 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Business, Vol. book is useful to those seeking information for their a result of globalisation and convergence and 5) Softcover professional, scientific and personal development, their impact on organisational strategies; how allowing them to shape their social attitude. It is also outsourcing can transform the various processes 49,95 € useful to those responsible for taking decisions at and functions of an organisation; the impact ISBN 978-1-4614-1289-2 national, European or enterprise level, in relation to outsourcing is having on various industry vertical the social and economic problems[..] sectors; the eight foundations of successful strategic outsourcing programmes, which when combined Features with strategic[..] The book “The Greek Economy and the Crisis. Challenges and Responses” targets all those who Features think about the present and future of this (culturally) This book provides a road-map to successful long-lived small geographic region (Greece), to form implementation of strategic outsourcing a personal view of its social and economic problems. programmes, providing down-to-earth approaches A society that repeats the same types of behaviour to outsourcing decision making and programme over the centuries does not do so due to random management, based on a grass-roots understanding. mistakes. It contains intrinsic forces that affect it. A practitioner-focused book for business leaders These [..] and managers providing a holistic view of strategic outsourcing, covering the three essential pillars of Contents success: risks, rewards and [..] Introduction: The Responsibility of Knowledge, Challenges and Responses.- The Changing World Contents and the Greek Economy Before the Crisis.- The Role of Strategic Sourcing in a Changing World.- Pre-Crisis Growth of the Greek Economy.- The Globalisation and Convergence.- Social and Question of Growth.- Human Capital: Education, Philosophical Considerations of Outsourcing.- From Innovation and Health.- Cultural Values, Stereotypes Tactical to Strategic Outsourcing.- Outsourcing and Historical Evolution.- Idiosyncratic Economic Within Industry Verticals.- Strategic Outsourcing.- Institutions.- Political Institutions and the Sourcing Models.- Strategic Outsourcing Decision Distribution of Income.- Human Incentives.- Governance.- Insights from Academic Research The 2008-2010 Crisis and the European Stability on Outsourcing.- Minimising Risk Through the Mechanism.- The Deeper Causes of the Greek Contract.- Minimising Risk Through Relationships.- Economic and Social Problems.- The Greek Offshoring Leaders, Laggards and Hopefuls.- Economy After the Crisis.- The[..] Managing Cultural Differences.- Implementing Successful Strategic Outsourcing Programmes. Fields of interest Economic Policy; European Integration; Fields of interest Development Economics; Social Policy; Business Strategy/Leadership; Management/Business Macroeconomics / Monetary Economics for Professionals; Emerging Markets/Globalization; Production / Logistics Target groups Research Target groups Professional/practitioner Type of publication Monograph Type of publication Professional book Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days
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P. Johannesson, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden; J. Krogstie, D. Strangio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy A. Heinzl, University of Mannheim, Germany; P. Buxmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, University of Darmstadt, Germany; O. Wendt, University of Norway; A.L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway (Eds.) Kaiserslautern, Germany; T. Weitzel, University of Bamberg, The Reasons for Underdevelopment Germany (Eds.)
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling The Case of Decolonisation in Somaliland Theory-Guided Modeling and 4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2011 Oslo, The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently Empiricism in Information Systems Norway, November 2-3, 2011 Proceedings attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Research This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice later than the more mature historiography of other of Enterprise Modeling, held in Oslo, Norway, This editorial book presents twelve contributions European countries, the work of some important during November 2-3, 2011. The conference series from the German “Wirtschaftsinformatik”that scholars has opened up new fields of investigation is a dedicated forum where the use of enterprise exemplify the contemporary approach of and research. Recent studies have tried to analyse modeling (EM) in practice is addressed by bringing theory-guided modeling and empiricism which in greater depth the working mechanisms of the together researchers, users, and practitioners complements existing approaches. It summarizes colonial system, broadening the field of investigation in order to develop a better understanding of recent research which has been presented at major also to the perspective of African countries and the practice of EM, to contribute to improved international and national conferences in order the political-economic equilibriums of the second industrial EM applications, and to share knowledge to demonstrate the growing importance of this half of the 20th century. This study fits into this and experiences.The 18 papers presented were streamof research. area of research and analyses crucial aspects of carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. the decolonisation of Somalia, the history of the Authored by both researchers and practitioners, Features presence of Italian banking in Somaliland; relations they reflect the fact that EM encompasses human, This editorial book presents twelve contributions between Italian and Somali institutions; Italian organizational issues as well as technical aspects from the German “Wirtschaftsinformatik”that political-monetary policies during the reconstruction related to the development of information systems. exemplify the contemporary approach of and the first economic boom. The papers are organized in five thematic sessions theory-guided modeling and empiricism which complements existing approaches. It summarizes on process modeling, business modeling, enterprise Features recent research which has been presented at major architecture, EM, and model-driven development. In The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently international and national conferences in order addition, two keynotes on EM in an agile world and attracted renewed interest from historians and to demonstrate the growing importance of this on intra- and[..] economists. It is a complex and involved question. streamof research. Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly Features later than the more mature historiography of other This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Fields of interest European countries, the work of some important IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice Business Information Systems; Information Systems scholars has opened up new fields of investigation of Enterprise Modeling, held in Oslo, Norway, and Communication Service; Models and Principles and research. Recent studies have tried to analyse in during November 2-3, 2011. The conference series greater [..] is a dedicated forum where the use of enterprise Target groups Research modeling (EM) in practice is addressed by bringing Contents together researchers, users, and practitioners in Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Somali People: Type of publication order to develop a better understanding of the Between Trusteeship and Independence.- 3 Analysis Contributed volume practice of EM, to [..] of the Economic System of Somalia.- 4 Companies and Firms in Italian Somalia.- 5 International Aid to Fields of interest Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Somalia.- Conclusion.- Appendices. Business Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Information Fields of interest 2011. X, 258 p. 37 illus. Softcover Systems Applications (incl.Internet) Development Economics; Migration; Macroeconomics / Monetary Economics; 79,95 € Target groups International Economics ISBN 978-3-7908-2780-4 Research Target groups Type of publication Research Proceedings Type of publication Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. Monograph
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A. CARSRUD, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, CA; M. L. Zhang, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Brännback, Åbo Akademi University, School of Business and Qingdao, Shandong, China Chemistry Economics, Turku, Finland (Eds.) Venture Capital and the Corporate Understanding Family Businesses G.P. Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, Governance of Chinese Listed Pittsburgh, PA, USA Undiscovered Approaches, Unique Perspectives, and Companies Neglected Topics A Prehistory of Polymer Science Businesses owned and operated by families State-controlled listed companies have always constitute the vast majority of firms around the dominated Chinese stock markets. As a result of world. These firms are found in all industrial Polymer science is now an active and thriving the rampant scandals related to them, there have community of scientists, engineers and technologists, segments, from retail and service establishments been voluminous academic efforts to explore their to heavy manufacturers. Their sizes and revenues but there was a time, not so long ago, when there corporate governance, underpinned by agency was no such community. The prehistory of polymer range from the smallest venture of a husband and costs. However, these studies have yet to examine wife roadside food stall in rural India to the largest science helps to provide key insights into current the phenomenon from the perspective of venture issues and historical problems. The story will be multinational, highly diversified corporations in capital and adaptive efficiency. During the last the United States and Europe. Many challenges, divided into an ancient period ( from Greek times ten years, despite China’s remarkable progress in to the creation of the molecular consensus), a such as competition, regulation, environmental the development of its venture capital market, its concerns, access to capital, and macroeconomic nascent period (from Dalton to Kekule to van’t domestic venture capital has been marginalized Hoff) and a period of paradigm formation and factors confront family and nonfamily firms alike. by American competitors. Given the different In addition, family and closely-held firms grapple controversy (from Staudinger to Mark to Carothers). performance between them, the author contends The prehistory concludes with an account of the with such issues of succession, continuity, conflict that the corporate governance system of Chinese resolution, identity and organizational roles, estate epochal 1935 Discussion of the Faraday Society state-controlled listed companies has hampered the on “Polymerization”. After this meeting an active and financial planning that are idiosyncratic to them; performance of the institutional factors which are when psychological, social, and emotional factors are community engaged in trying to solve the central responsible for the prosperity of American venture problems defined by the discussions. in play, constantly changing familial relationships capital in Chinese venture capital markets.With the influence the strategic and financial choices they practice of American venture capital as the mirror, Features make. Yet, there has been comparatively little he empirically demonstrates that Chinese domestic Polymer science is now an active and thriving theoretical[..] venture capital lacks the four[..] community of scientists, engineers and technologists, but there was a time, not so long ago, when there Features Features Businesses owned and operated by families was no such community. The prehistory of polymer State-controlled listed companies have always science helps to provide key insights into current constitute the vast majority of firms around the dominated Chinese stock markets. As a result of world. These firms are found in all industrial issues and historical problems. The story is divided the rampant scandals related to them, there have into an ancient period, from Greek times to the segments, from retail and service establishments been voluminous academic efforts to explore their to heavy manufacturers. Their sizes and revenues creation of the molecular consensus, a nascent corporate governance, underpinned by agency costs. period, from [..] range from the smallest venture of a husband and However, these studies have yet to examine the wife roadside food stall in rural India to the largest phenomenon from the perspective of venture capital Contents multinational, highly diversified corporations in the and adaptive efficiency. 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W.A. Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia; E. Keszei, University of Budapest, Hungary B. Ladewig, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; B. W.Y. Wan Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Asquith, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia Malaysia; Z.A. Zakaria, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia; N.Z. Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Chemical Thermodynamics Malaysia Desalination Concentrate An Introduction Management Application of Bacterial Pigments This course-derived undergraduate textbook provides a concise explanation of the key concepts as Colorant This book examines five methods used for and calculations of chemical thermodynamics. concentrate management, namely; disposal to The Malaysian Perspective Instead of the usual ‘classical’ introduction, surface water, disposal to sewerage, deep well this text adopts a straightforward postulatory injection, land applications and evaporation ponds. 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First-Principles-Based Multiscale, Multiparadigm Molecular farming in plants is a relatively Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics Methods for young subject of sciences. As plants can offer an Describing Complex Chemical Processes, by A. inexpensive and convenient platform for the large- Jaramillo-Botero, R. Nielsen, R. Abrol, J. Su, T. scale production of recombinant proteins with Pascal, J. Mueller and W. A. Goddard.- Dynamic various functions, the driven force from the giant QM/MM: A Hybrid Approach to Simulating market for recombinant protein pharmaceuticals Gas–Liquid Interactions, by S. Yockel and G. C. and industrial enzymes makes this subject grow Schatz.- Multiscale Modelling in Computational and advance very quickly. To summarize recent Heterogeneous Catalysis, by F. J. Keil.- Real-World advances, current challenges and future directions Predictions from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics in molecular farming, international authorities were Simulations, by B. Kirchner, P. J. di Dio and J. invited to write this book for researchers, teachers Hutter.- Nanoscale Wetting Under Electric Field and students who are interested in this subject. This from Molecular Simulations, by C. D. Daub, D. book, with the focus on the most advanced cutting- Bratko and A. Luzar.- Molecular Simulations edge breakthroughs, covers all the essential aspects of Retention in Chromatographic Systems: Use of the field of molecular farming in plants: from of Biased Monte Carlo Techniques to Access expression technologies to downstream processing, Multiple Time and Length Scales, by J. L. Rafferty, from products to safety issues, and from current J. I. Siepmann, M. R. Schure.- Thermodynamic advances and holdups to future developments. Properties for Applications in Chemical Industry via Classical Force Fields, by G. Guevara-Carrion, Features H. Hasse and J. Vrabec.- Multiscale Approaches and Since the first recombinant plant-derived Perspectives to[..] pharmaceutical protein (PDP), i.e., human serum albumin, was produced in transgenic tobacco and Features potato plants in 1990, molecular farming in plants A. Jaramillo-Botero R. Nielsen R. Abrol J. Su T. has emerged as a new subject of sciences. The Pascal J. Mueller W. A. Goddard First-Principles- plant system has the potential to provide virtually Based Multiscale, Multiparadigm Molecular unlimited quantities of these bio-products at low Mechanics and Dynamics Methods for Describing costs, which is impossible for any other systems. Complex Chemical Processes S. Yockel G. C. plants have been [..] Schatz Dynamic QM/MM: A Hybrid Approach to Simulating Gas–Liquid Interactions F. J. Contents Keil Multiscale Modelling in Computational Preface.- Contributors.- 1. Molecular Farming in Heterogeneous Catalysis B. Kirchner P. J. di Dio J. Plants: an Overview; Shengwu Ma, Aiming Wang.- [..] 2. Production of Foreign Proteins in Transgenic Plants; Shengwu Ma.- 3. Molecular Farming Using Contents Bioreactor-based Plant Cell Suspension Cultures First-Principles-Based Multiscale, Multiparadigm for Recombinant Protein Production; Ting-Kuo Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics Methods for Huang, Karen A. McDonald.- 4. Chloroplast-derived Describing Complex Chemical Processes, by A. Therapeutic and Prophylactic Vaccines; James S. Jaramillo-Botero, R. Nielsen, R. Abrol, J. Su, T. New, Donevan Westerveld, Henry Daniell.- 5. Seed Pascal, J. Mueller and W. A. Goddard.- Dynamic Expression Systems for Molecular Farming; Allison QM/MM: A Hybrid Approach to Simulating R. Kermode.- 6. Algae: an Alternative to the Higher Gas–Liquid Interactions, by S. Yockel and G. C. Plant System in Gene Farming; Christoph Griesbeck, Schatz.- Multiscale Modelling in Computational Anna[..] Heterogeneous Catalysis, by F. J. Keil.- Real-World Predictions from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Fields of interest Simulations, by B. Kirchner, P. J. di Dio and J. Biotechnology; Genetic Engineering; Plant Hutter.- Nanoscale Wetting Under Electric Field Breeding / Biotechnology; Agriculture; Biomedicine from Molecular Simulations,[..] (general); Life Sciences (general) Fields of interest Target groups Organic Chemistry; Theoretical and Computational Research Chemistry; Computer Applications in Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Math. Applications in Type of publication Chemistry Contributed volume Target groups Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Research
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Multistate GTPase Control Co- NMR Methods for the Investigation Solid State NMR translational Protein Targeting of Structure and Transport Dipolar Recoupling, by Niels Chr. Nielsen, Lasse A. Strassø and Anders B. Nielsen.-Solid-State NMR Proteins act as macromolecular machinery that Methods of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are Techniques for the Structural Determination of mediate many diverse biological processes - the increasingly applied in engineering sciences. The Amyloid Fibrils, by Jerry C. C. Chan.-Solid-State molecular mechanisms of this machinery has book summarizes research in the field of chemical 19F-NMR of Peptides in Native Membranes, by fascinated biologists for decades. Analysis of the and process engineering performed at the Karlsruhe Katja Koch, Sergii Afonin, Marco Ieronimo, Marina kinetic and thermodynamic features of these Institute of Technology (KIT). Fundamentals Berditsch and Anne S. 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W. Kuich, Technische Universität Wien, Austria; G. Rahonis, 54,00 € R. BRAFMAN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (Eds.) ISBN 978-3-642-24896-2 Israel; F.S. Roberts, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; A. Tsoukias, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France (Eds.) Algebraic Foundations in Computer Science Algorithmic Decision Theory Second International Conference, ADT 2011, Piscataway, NJ, Essays Dedicated to Symeon Bozapalidis on the Occasion of USA, October 26-28, 2011. Proceedings His Retirement This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This Festschrift volume, published in honor the Second International Conference on Algorithmic of Symeon Bozapalidis on the occasion of his Decision Theory, ADT 2011, held in Piscataway, NJ, retirement after more than 35 years of teaching USA, in October 2011. The 24 revised full papers activity, focuses on the subjects taught by Symeon, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from namely: algebra, linear algebra, mathematical 50 submissions. logic, number theory, automata theory, tree languages and series, algebraic semantics, and fuzzy Features languages. Since 1982 -- at the Aristotle University This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of of Thessaloniki -- Symeon's main interests have been the Second International Conference on Algorithmic closely connected with the algebraic foundations Decision Theory, ADT 2011, held in Piscataway, NJ, in computer science. In particular, he contributed USA, in October 2011. The 24 revised full papers to the development of the theory of tree languages presented were carefully reviewed and selected from and series, the axiomatization of graphs, picture 50 submissions. theory, and fuzzy languages. The volume contains 15 invited papers, written by colleagues, friends, and Fields of interest students of Symeon. All of the papers were carefully Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Algorithm refereed and are connected to his research topics. Analysis and Problem Complexity; Information Most of the papers were presented at the Workshop Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Probability on Algebraic Foundations in Computer Science, and Statistics in Computer Science; Computer held in Thessaloniki, Greece, during November 7--8, Communication Networks; Programming 2011. Techniques
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S.V. Raghavan, Chennai, India; E. Dawson (Eds.) D. Basin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; P. Schaller, ETH Zürich, C. Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; B. Switzerland; M. Schläpfer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Blau, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; T. Conte, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; L. Filipova- An Investigation into the Detection Neumann, Research Center for Information Technology, Applied Information Security Karlsruhe, Germany; Th. Meinl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Mitigation of Denial of Service Germany; W. Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, (DoS) Attacks A Hands-on Approach Germany
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The authors traditional business models and strategies have through authentication, Technology Transition, Test explain how to identify and exploit such problems begun to change: software vendors are turning into Bed Simulation, and Policy and Legal Environment. and they show different countermeasures and service providers. In addition, in the Web service The monograph is the outcome of over three years of their implementation. 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Computing with Spatial keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from food, water, public health, emergency services, Trajectories introduces the algorithms, technologies, 157 submissions. The papers are organized in topical transportation, postal and shipping, government and and systems used to process, manage and understand sections on modeling goals and compliance; human defense. Global business and industry, governments, existing spatial trajectories for different applications. and socio-technical factors; ontologies; data model indeed society itself, cannot function effectively This book also presents an overview on both theory; model development and maintainability; if major components of the critical information fundamentals and the state-of-the-art research user interfaces and software classification; evolution, infrastructure are degraded, disabled or destroyed. inspired by spatial trajectory data, as well as a propagation and refinement; UML and requirements Critical Infrastructure Protection V describes special focus on trajectory pattern mining, spatio- modeling; views, queries and search; requirements original research results and innovative applications temporal data mining and location-based social and business intelligence; MDA and ontology-based in the interdisciplinary field of critical infrastructure networks. Each chapter provides readers with a modeling; process modeling; panels. protection. Also, it highlights the importance of tutorial-style introduction to one important aspect of weaving science, technology and policy in crafting location trajectory computing, case studies and many Features sophisticated, yet practical, solutions that will help valuable[..] This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of secure information, computer and network assets in the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Features the various critical infrastructure sectors. Areas of Modeling, ER 2011, held in Brussels, Belgium, in none coverage include:[..] October/November 2011. The 25 revised full papers Contents presented together with 14 short papers and three Features Part I Foundations.- Trajectory Preprocessing.- keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from The information infrastructure---comprising Trajectory Indexing and Retrieval.- Part II Advanced 157 submissions. 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This Festschrift volume, published in honor of 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2011, Beijing, China, October 24-27, 2011, Proceedings Brian Randell on the occasion of his 75th birthday, contains a total of 37 refereed contributions. Two This book constitutes the refereed proceedings biographical papers are followed by the six invited of the 13th International Conference on Asia- papers that were presented at the conference Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2011, held in 'Dependable and Historic Computing: The Randell Beijing, China, in October 2011. The 33 revised Tales', held during April 7-8, 2011 at Newcastle full papers, 8 short papers and 9 poster papers University, UK. The remaining contributions are presented were carefully reviewed and selected from authored by former scientific colleagues of Brian 136 submissions. The topics covered are digital Randell.The papers focus on the core of Brian archives and preservation; information mining Randell’s work: the development of computing and extraction; medata, catalogue; distributed science and the study of its history. Moreover, his repositories and cloud computing; social network wider interests are reflected and so the collection and personalized service; mobile services and comprises papers on software engineering, storage electronic publishing; multimedia digital libraries; fragmentation, computer architecture, programming information retrieval; and tools and systems for languages and dependability. There is even a paper digital library. that echoes Randell’s love of maps.After an early career with English Electric and then with IBM in Features New York and California, Brian Randell joined This book constitutes the refereed proceedings Newcastle University. His main research has been on of the 13th International Conference on Asia- dependable computing in all[..] Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2011, held in Beijing, China, in October 2011. The 33 revised Features full papers, 8 short papers and 9 poster papers This Festschrift volume, published in honor of presented were carefully reviewed and selected from Brian Randell on the occasion of his 75th birthday, 136 submissions. The topics covered are digital contains a total of 37 refereed contributions. Two archives and preservation; information mining and biographical papers are followed by the six invited extraction; medata, [..] papers that were presented at the conference 'Dependable and Historic Computing: The Randell Fields of interest Tales', held during April 7-8, 2011 at Newcastle Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial University, UK. The remaining contributions are Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems authored by former [..] Applications (incl.Internet); Database Management; Computer Communication Networks; Data Mining Contents and Knowledge Discovery Part A: Biographical -- What I Learned from Brian (Hermann Kopetz).- Brian Randell: A Biographical Target groups Note (John L. Lloyd and Tom Anderson).- Part Research B: Conference Papers -- On Building a Referee’s Avatar (Algirdas Avizienis).- From Theory to Type of publication Practice: The Invention of Programming, 1947-51 Proceedings (Martin Campbell-Kelly).- Transactions: From Local Atomicity to Atomicity in the Cloud (David Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. Lomet).- From DSS to MILS (John Rushby).- Pre-electronic Computing (Doron Swade).- Whetstone Wanderings (Brian Wichmann).- Part C: 2011. 400 p. 146 illus. (Information Systems and Contributed Papers -- Using Real-Time Road Traffic Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, Vol. 7008) Data to Evaluate Congestion (Jean[..] Softcover
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H. Kuerten, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands; B. Geurts, TU J. Cohen, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, H.C.A. van Tilborg, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; V. Armenio, University of France; P. Maillé, Institut Télécom/Télécom Bretagne, Cesson- Netherlands; S. Jajodia, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Trieste, Italy; J. Fröhlich, TU Dresden, Germany (Eds.) Sévigné Cedex, France; B. Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland USA (Eds.) (Eds.) Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation Encyclopedia of Cryptography and VIII Economics of Converged, Internet- Security Based Networks
This volume continues previous DLES proceedings 7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Expanded into two volumes, the Second Edition books, presenting modern developments in Technologies, ICQT 2011, Paris, France, October 24, 2011, of Springer’s Encyclopedia of Cryptography and turbulent flow research. It is comprehensive in its Proceedings Security brings the latest and most comprehensive coverage of numerical and modeling techniques coverage of the topic: Definitive information on This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the for fluid mechanics.After Surrey in 1994, Grenoble cryptography and information security from highly 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging in 1996, Cambridge in 1999, Enschede in 2001, regarded researchers Effective tool for professionals and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2011, held in Paris, Munich in 2003, Poitiers in 2005, and Trieste in many fields and researchers of all levels Extensive France, in October 2011 collocated with the 7th in 2009, the 8th workshop, DLES8, was held in resource with more than 700 contributions in International Conference on Network and Service Eindhoven, The Netherlands, again under the Second Edition 5643 references, more than twice Management. The 6 revised full papers presented auspices of ERCOFTAC. Following the spirit of the number of references that appear in the First together with an abstract of a keynote paper were the series, the goal of this workshop is to establish Edition With over 300 new entries, appearing in carefully reviewed and selected from numerous a state-of-the-art of DNS and LES techniques for an A-Z format, the Encyclopedia of Cryptography submissions. The papers are organized in topical the computation and modeling of transitional/ and Security provides easy, intuitive access to sections on service guarantees, evaluation of pricing turbulent flows covering a broad scope of topics such information on all aspects of cryptography and schemes, and inter-domain services. as aerodynamics, acoustics, combustion, multiphase security. As a critical enhancement to the First flows, environment, geophysics and bio-medical Features Edition’s base of 464 entries, the information in applications. This gathering of specialists in the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the the Encyclopedia is relevant for researchers and field was a unique opportunity for discussions 6th International Workshop on Internet Charging professionals alike. Topics for this comprehensive about the more recent advances in the prediction, and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2011, held in Paris, reference were elected, written, and peer-reviewed by understanding and control of turbulent flows in France, in October 2011 collocated with the 7th a pool of distinguished researchers in the field. The academic or industrial situations. International Conference on Network and Service Second[..] Management. The 6 revised full papers presented Features Features together with an abstract of a keynote paper were This volume continues previous DLES proceedings Expanded into two volumes, the Second Edition carefully reviewed and selected from numerous books, presenting modern developments in of Springer’s Encyclopedia of Cryptography and submissions. The [..] turbulent flow research. It is comprehensive in its Security brings the latest and most comprehensive coverage of numerical and modeling techniques for Fields of interest coverage of the topic: Definitive information on fluid mechanics. After Surrey in 1994, Grenoble in Computer Communication Networks; Information cryptography and information security from highly 1996, Cambridge in 1999, Enschede in 2001, Munich Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information regarded researchers Effective tool for professionals in 2003, Poitiers in 2005, and Trieste in 2009, the Storage and Retrieval; Computer Appl. in in many fields and researchers of all levels Extensive 8th workshop, DLES8, was held in Eindhoven, The Administrative Data Processing; e-commerce / e- resource with more than 700 contributions in Netherlands, again [..] business; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Second [..]
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Formal Methods and Software Formal Methods: Foundations and Engineering Applications Flexible Query Answering Systems 13th International Conference on Formal Engineering 14th Brazilian Symposium, SBMF 2011, Sao Paulo, September 9th International Conference, FQAS 2011, Ghent, Belgium, Methods, ICFEM 2011, Durham, UK, October 26-28, 2011. 26-30 2011, Proceedings October 26-28, 2011, Proceedings Proceedings This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings post-conference proceedings of the 14th Brazilian of the 8th International Conference on Flexible of the 13th International Conference on Formal Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2011, Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2011, held in Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2011, held in held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September 2011; co- Roskilde, Denmark, in October 2011. The 43 papers Durham, UK, October 2011. The 40 revised full located with CBSoft 2011, the second Brazilian included in this volume were carefully reviewed and papers together with 3 invited talks presented Conference on Software: Theory and Practice. selected from numerous submissions. The papers are were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed organized in topical sections on logical approaches submissions. The papers address all current issues in and selected from 37 submissions. The papers to flexible querying, fuzzy logic in spatial and formal methods and their applications in software presented cover a broad range of foundational temporal data modeling and querying, knowledge- engineering. They are organized in topical sections and methodological issues in formal methods for based approaches, multimedia, data fuzziness, on formal models; model checking and probability; the design and analysis of software and hardware reliability and trust, information retrieval, preference specification and development; security; formal systems as well as applications in various domains. queries, flexible querying of graph data, ranking, verification; cyber physical systems; event-B; ordering and statistics, query recommendation and verification, analysis and testing; refinement; as well Features interpretation, as well as on fuzzy databases and as theorem proving and rewriting. 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Or imagine yourself as a public health expert Carolyn Talcott on the occasion of her 70th birthday, Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy trying to identify the location of contaminated contains a collection of papers presented at a between theoretical and empirical results on real- water that is causing diarrheal diseases in a local symposium held in Menlo Park, California, USA, world problems, producing a comprehensive population. Geospatial abduction is a new technique in November 2011. Carolyn Talcott is a leading view of the state of the art in GP. Topics include: introduced by the authors that allows such problems researcher and mentor of international renown modularity and scalability; evolvability; human- to be solved. Geospatial Abduction provides the among computer scientists. 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J. Kotlarsky, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; L.P. Willcocks, M. Loog, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; A.R. Bradley, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA London School of Economics, UK (Eds.) L. Wessels, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; M.J.T. Reinders, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; D. de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Programming for Engineers New Studies in Global IT and Netherlands (Eds.) Business Services Outsourcing A Foundational Approach to Learning C and Matlab Pattern Recognition in To learn to program is to be initiated into an 5th Global Sourcing Workshop 2011, Courchevel, France, March 14-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers Bioinformatics entirely new way of thinking about engineering, mathematics, and the world in general. Computation This book contains 11 carefully revised and selected 6th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2011, Delft, The is integral to all modern engineering disciplines, papers from the 5th Workshop on Global Sourcing, Netherlands, November 2-4, 2011, Proceedings so the better you are at programming, the better held in Courchevel, France, March 14-17, 2011. you will be in your chosen field. The author departs This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the They have been gleaned from a vast empirical radically from the typical presentation by teaching 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition base brought together by leading researchers in concepts and techniques in a rigorous manner rather in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2011, held in Delft, The information systems, strategic management, and than listing how to use libraries and functions. He Netherlands, in November 2011. The 29 revised operations.This volume is intended for use by presents pointers in the very first chapter as part full papers presented were carefully reviewed and students, academics, and practitioners interested of the development of a computational model that selected from 35 submissions. The papers cover the in the outsourcing and offshoring of information facilitates an ab initio presentation of subjects such wide range of possible applications of bioinformatics technology and business processes. It offers a review as function calls, call-by-reference, arrays, the stack, in pattern recognition: novel algorithms to of the key topics in outsourcing and offshoring, and the heap. The model also allows students to handle traditional pattern recognition problems populated with practical frameworks that serve as practice the essential skill of memory manipulation such as (bi)clustering, classification and feature a tool kit for students and managers. The topics throughout the entire course rather than just at the selection; applications of (novel) pattern recognition discussed combine theoretical and practical insights, end. As a result, this textbook goes further than is techniques to infer and analyze biological networks and they are extensively illustrated by case studies typical for a one-semester course -- abstract data and studies on specific problems such as biological from client and vendor organizations. Last but not types and linked lists, for example, are covered in image analysis and the relation between sequence least, the book examines current and future trends depth. The computational model will[..] and structure. They are organized in the following in outsourcing and offshoring, paying particular topical sections: clustering, biomarker selection and attention to how innovation can be realized in global Features classification, network inference and analysis, image or outsourced software development environments. 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The 29 revised base brought together by leading researchers in concepts and techniques in a rigorous manner [..] full papers presented were carefully reviewed and information systems, strategic management, and selected from 35 submissions. The papers cover the operations.This volume is intended for use by Contents wide range of possible applications of bioinformatics students, academics, and practitioners interested in Chap. 1, Memory: The Stack.- Chap. 2, Control.- in pattern recognition: novel algorithms to handle the outsourcing [..] Chap. 3, Arrays and Strings.- Chap. 4, Debugging.- [..] Chap. 5, I/O.- Chap. 6, Memory: The Heap.- Chap. 7, Fields of interest Abstract Data Types.- Chap. 8, Linked Lists.- Chap. 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L. Antunes, GUESS/LabMAg/Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; C. San Martin, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile; S.-W. X. Li, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China; J. Li, H.S. Pinto, Instituto Superior Técnico, IST, Lisboa, Portugal (Eds.) Kim, Myongji University, Namdong, Republic of Korea (Eds.) Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China
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15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA Image Analysis, Computer Vision, over the Internet 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, October 10-13, 2011, Proceedings and Applications "Quality-Based Content Delivery over the Internet" This book contains a selection of higher quality and 16th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP reviewed papers of the 15th Portuguese Conference 2011, Pucón, Chile, November 15-18, 2011. Proceedings mainly discusses the methodology of doing quality- on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2011, held in Lisbon, based content delivery in an Internet environment. Portugal, in October 2011. The 50 revised full papers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings Because the network is becoming intelligent and presented were carefully reviewed and selected from of the 16th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern active, more and more researchers are talking about a total of 203 submissions. 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Repairing and Querying Databases Recent Trends in Information Reuse under Aggregate Constraints Quantum Interaction and Integration 5th International Symposium, QI 2011, Aberdeen, UK, June Research has deeply investigated several issues 26-29, 2011, Revised Selected Papers related to the use of integrity constraints on The present text aims at helping the reader to relational databases. In particular, a great deal This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- maximize the reuse of information. Topics covered of attention has been devoted to the problem of conference proceedings of the 5th International include tools and services for creating simple, extracting "reliable" information from databases Symposium on Quantum Interaction, QI 2011, rich, and reusable knowledge representations to containing pieces of information inconsistent held in Aberdeen, UK, in June 2011. The 26 revised explore strategies for integrating this knowledge with regard to some integrity constraints. 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Social Informatics Lauderdale, FL, USA, November 3-5, 2011, Proceedings Semantic Web Services for Web Databases Third International Conference, SocInfo 2011, Singapore, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of introduces an end-to-end framework for querying October 6-8, 2011, Proceedings the International RuleML Symposium, RuleML Web databases using novel Web service querying 2011-America, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, techniques. This includes a detailed framework This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third in November 2011 - collocated with the 22nd for the query infrastructure for Web databases International Conference on Social Informatics, International Joint Conference on Artificial and services. Case studies are covered in the last SocInfo 2011, held in Singapore in October 2011. Intelligence, IJCAI 2011. It is the second of two section of this book. Semantic Web Services For The 15 full papers, 8 short papers and 13 posters RuleML events that take place in 2011. The first Web Databases is designed for practitioners and included in this volume were carefully reviewed RuleML Symposium, RuleML 2011-Europe, has researchers focused on service-oriented computing and selected from 68 full paper and 13 poster been held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2011. The 12 and Web databases. submissions. The papers are organized in topical full papers, 5 short papers and 5 invited track and sections named: network analysis; eGovernance and position papers presented together with 3 keynote Features knowledge management; applications of network speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from Semantic Web Services for Web Databases analysis; community dynamics; case studies; trust, numerous submissions. The accepted papers address introduces an end-to-end framework for querying privacy and security; peer-production. a wide range of rules, semantic technology, and Web databases using novel Web service querying cross-industry standards, rules and automated techniques. This includes a detailed framework Features reasoning, rule-based event processing and reaction for the query infrastructure for Web databases This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third rules, vocabularies, ontologies and business rules, and services. Case studies are covered in the last International Conference on Social Informatics, cloud computing and rules, clinical semantics and section of this book. Semantic Web Services For SocInfo 2011, held in Singapore in October 2011. rules. Web Databases is designed for practitioners and The 15 full papers, 8 short papers and 13 posters researchers focused on [..] included in this volume were carefully reviewed Features and selected from 68 full paper and 13 poster This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Contents submissions. The papers are organized in topical the International RuleML Symposium, RuleML Introduction.- Ontological Organization of Web sections named: network analysis; eGovernance and 2011-America, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, Databases.- Web Services Query Model.- Web knowledge management; [..] in November 2011 - collocated with the 22nd Services Query Execution and Optimization.- International Joint Conference on Artificial Implementation and Experiments.- Current Fields of interest Intelligence, IJCAI 2011. It is the second of two Advances in Semantic Web Services and Web Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); RuleML events that take place in 2011. The first Databases.- Conclusions, Open Issues, and Future Computer Communication Networks; Artificial RuleML Symposium, RuleML 2011-Europe, has been Directions. Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Appl. in held in Barcelona, Spain, in July [..] Social and Behavioral Sciences; User Interfaces and Fields of interest Human Computer Interaction; Data Mining and Fields of interest Database Management; Information Systems Knowledge Discovery Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer (incl. Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval; Target groups Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Computer Communication Networks Research Programming Techniques; Database Management Target groups Type of publication Target groups Professional/practitioner Proceedings Research Type of publication Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. 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G. Barthe, Fundación IMDEA Software, Madrid, Spain; A. Pardo, R. Grossi, University of Pisa, Italy; F. Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy; E. Efthimiadis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; J.M. Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay; G. Schneider, F. Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy (Eds.) Fernández-Luna, Universidad de Granada, Spain; J.F. Huete, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Eds.) Universidad de Granada, Spain; A. MacFarlane, City University London, UK (Eds.) String Processing and Information Software Engineering and Formal Retrieval Methods Teaching and Learning in 18th International Symposium, SPIRE 2011, Pisa, Italy, Information Retrieval 9th International Conference, SEFM 2011, Montevideo, October 17-21, 2011, Proceedings Uruguay, November 14-18, 2011, Proceedings This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Information Retrieval has become a very active This book constitutes the refereed proceedings International Symposium on String Processing research field in the 21st century. Many from of the 9th International Conference on Software and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2011, held in academia and industry present their innovations Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2011, held Pisa, Italy, in October 2011. The 30 long and 10 in the field in a wide variety of conferences and in Montevideo, Uruguay, in November 2011. The short papers together with 1 keynote presented journals. Companies transfer this new knowledge 22 revised regular papers presented together with were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 directly to the general public via services such as web 1 short paper, 2 tool papers, and 4 keynote talks submissions. The papers are structured in topical search engines in order to improve their information were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 initial sections on introduction to web retrieval, sequence seeking experience. In parallel, teaching IR is turning abstracts and 85 full submissions. Besides the regular learning, computational geography, space-efficient into an important aspect of IR generally, not only session the conference held a special track devoted data structures, algorithmic analysis of biological because it is necessary to impart effective search to "Modeling for Sustainable Development" with data, compression, text and algorithms. techniques to make the most of the IR tools available, 5 accepted papers - selected from 7 submissions - but also because we must provide a good foundation that are also part of this volume. The aim of SEFM Features for those students who will become the driving is to advance the state of the art in formal methods, This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th force of future IR technologies. There are very few to scale up their application in software industry International Symposium on String Processing resources for teaching and learning in IR, the major and to encourage their integration with practical and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2011, held in problem which this book is designed to solve. The engineering methods. Pisa, Italy, in October 2011. The 30 long and 10 objective is to provide ideas and practical experience short papers together with 1 keynote presented of teaching and learning IR, for those whose job Features were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 requires them to teach in one form or another, and This book constitutes the refereed proceedings submissions. 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B. Wolff, Université Paris-Sud, France; F. Zaidi, Université Paris- L.R. Knudsen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, D. Salomon, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA Sud, France (Eds.) Denmark; M.J.B. Robshaw, Orange Labs, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France The Computer Graphics Manual Testing Software and Systems The Block Cipher Companion 23rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2011, Paris, This book presents a broad overview of computer France, November 7-10, 2011, Proceedings graphics (CG), its history, and the hardware tools Block ciphers encrypt blocks of plaintext, messages, it employs. Covering a substantial number of This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of into blocks of ciphertext under the action of a secret concepts and algorithms, the text describes the the 23rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on key, and the process of encryption is reversed by techniques, approaches, and algorithms at the Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2011, held in decryption which uses the same user-supplied core of this field. Emphasis is placed on practical Paris, France, in November 2011. The 13 revised full key. Block ciphers are fundamental to modern design and implementation, highlighting how papers presented together with 2 invited talks were cryptography, in fact they are the most widely used graphics software works, and explaining how current carefully selected from 40 submissions. The papers cryptographic primitive – useful in their own right, CG can generate and display realistic-looking address the conceptual, theoretic, and practical and in the construction of other cryptographic objects. The mathematics is non-rigorous, with the problems of testing software systems, including mechanisms. In this book the authors provide a necessary mathematical background introduced communication protocols, services, distributed technically detailed, yet readable, account of the in the Appendixes. Features: includes numerous platforms, middleware, controllers, and security state of the art of block cipher analysis, design, and figures, examples and solved exercises; discusses infrastructures. deployment. The authors first describe the most the key 2D and 3D transformations, and the main prominent block ciphers and give insights into types of projections; presents an extensive selection Features their design. They then consider the role of the This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of of methods, algorithms, and techniques; examines cryptanalyst, the adversary, and provide an overview advanced techniques in CG, including the nature the 23rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on of some of the most important cryptanalytic Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2011, held in and properties of light and color, graphics standards methods. The book will be of value to graduate and and file formats, and fractals; explores the principles Paris, France, in November 2011. The 13 revised full senior undergraduate students of cryptography and papers presented together with 2 invited talks were of image compression; describes the important to professionals engaged in cryptographic design. An input/output graphics devices. carefully selected from 40 submissions. 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L. Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; C. Welty, L. Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; C. Welty, M. Cezon, INRIA, Saint Ismier, France; Y. Wolfsthal, IBM Haifa IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA; H. Alani, The Open IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA; H. Alani, The Open Research Laboratory, Israel (Eds.) University, Milton Keynes, UK; J. Taylor, Google, Mountain View, University, Milton Keynes, UK; J. Taylor, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA; A. Bernstein, University of Zürich, Switzerland; L. Kagal, CA, USA; A. Bernstein, University of Zürich, Switzerland; L. Kagal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; N. Noy, Stanford University, CA, USA; Towards a Service-Based Internet. N. Noy, Stanford University, CA, USA; E. Blomqvist, Linköping E. Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden (Eds.) University, Sweden (Eds.) ServiceWave 2010 Workshops The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2011 International Workshops, OCS, EMSOA, SMART, and EDBPM The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2011 2010, Ghent, Belgium, December 13-15, 2010, Revised 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, Selected Papers 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part II October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of The two-volume set LNCS 7031 and 7032 constitutes four workshops held in conjunction with the Third The two-volume set LNCS 7031 and LNCS 7032 the proceedings of the 10th International Semantic European Conference, ServiceWave 2010, held constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Web Conference, ISWC 2011, held in Bonn, in Ghent, Belgium, in December 2010. The book Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2011, held in Germany, in October 2011. Part I, LNCS 7031, includes 23 reviewed papers from four workshops Bonn, Germany, in October 2011. Part I, LNCS 7031, contains 50 research papers which were carefully that were selected from eight high-quality workshop contains 50 research papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The 17 session proposals. They represent diverse aspects reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The 17 semantic web in-use track papers contained in part of the theory and practice of service computing, semantic Web in-use track papers contained in part II, LNCS 7032, were selected from 75 submissions. ranging from service engineering to service II, LNCS 7032, were selected from 75 submissions. This volume also contains 15 doctoral consortium infrastructures. The workshops are: First Workshop This volume also contains 15 doctoral consortium papers, selected from 31 submissions. The topics on Optimising Cloud Services (OCS 2010), papers, selected from 31 submissions. The topics covered are: ontologies and semantics; database, International Workshop on Emergency Management covered are: ontologies and semantics; database, IR, and AI technologies for the semantic web; through Service-Oriented Architectures (EMSOA IR, and AI technologies for the semantic Web; management of semantic web data; reasoning over 2010), First International Workshop on Service management of semantic Web data; reasoning over semantic web data; search, query, integration, and Modelling and Representation Techniques (SMART semantic Web data; search, query, integration, and analysis on the semantic web; robust and scalable 2010), and From Event-Driven Business Process analysis on the semantic Web; robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Management to Ubiquitous Complex Event knowledge management and reasoning on the web; interacting with semantic web data; ontology Processing (EDBPM 2010). Web; interacting with semantic Web data; ontology modularity, mapping, merging and alignment; modularity, mapping, merging and alignment; languages, tools, and methodologies for representing Features languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing semantic web data; ontology, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of and managing semantic Web data; ontology, methodology, evaluation, reuse, extraction and[..] four workshops held in conjunction with the Third methodology, evaluation, reuse, extraction and[..] European Conference, ServiceWave 2010, held Features in Ghent, Belgium, in December 2010. The book Features The two-volume set LNCS 7031 and LNCS 7032 includes 23 reviewed papers from four workshops The two-volume set LNCS 7031 and LNCS 7032 constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International that were selected from eight high-quality workshop constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2011, held in session proposals. They represent diverse aspects Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2011, held in Bonn, Germany, in October 2011.Part I, LNCS 7031, of the theory and practice of service computing, Bonn, Germany, in October 2011.Part I, LNCS 7031, contains 50 research papers which were carefully ranging from service [..] contains 50 research papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The 17 reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The 17 semantic Web in-use track papers contained in part Fields of interest semantic Web in-use track papers contained in part II, LNCS 7032, were selected from 75 submissions. Software Engineering; Management of II, LNCS 7032, were selected from 75 submissions. This volume also [..] Computing and Information Systems; Computer This volume also [..] Communication Networks; Information Systems Fields of interest Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks; Information and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Target groups and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Database Management; Computers and Research Retrieval; Database Management; Computers and Society Society Type of publication Target groups Proceedings Target groups Research Research Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. Type of publication Type of publication Proceedings Proceedings 2011. XXIII, 209 p. 55 illus. 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W. Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland; I.M. C. Böhm, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany; J. Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. Llorente, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; M. Surridge, Eder, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria; C. Plant, Florida University of Southampton, UK; A. Zisman, City University State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA (Eds.) London, UK; J. Vayssière, Smart Services CRC, Eveleigh, NSW, 2011. XI, 209 p. 77 illus. (Transactions on Large-Scale Australia (Eds.) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, Vol. 6990) Softcover Towards a Service-Based Internet and Knowledge-Centered Systems IV 63,00 € 4th European Conference, ServiceWave 2011, Poznan, Poland, ISBN 978-3-642-23739-3 October 26-28, 2011, Proceedings Special Issue on Database Systems for Biomedical Applications This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth European Conference, ServiceWave The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale 2011, held in Poznan, Poland, in October 2011. The Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses 25 revised full papers presented together with 3 on data management, knowledge discovery, and invited presentations were carefully reviewed and knowledge processing, which are core and hot selected from numerous submissions. They are topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the organized in topical sections on cloud computing, Internet has become the main driving force behind security, privacy and trust, service engineering application development in all domains. An increase fundamentals, business services, and FI-PPP. In in the demand for resource sharing across different addition to the scientific track, 14 extended abstracts sites connected through networks has led to an of demonstrations covering a wide spectrum of evolution of data- and knowledge-management technology and application domains were accepted. systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications Features providing high scalability. Current decentralized This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of systems still focus on data and knowledge as their the Fourth European Conference, ServiceWave 2011, main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies held in Poznan, Poland, in October 2011. The 25 basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and revised full papers presented together with 3 invited the support of agent systems with scaling and presentations were carefully reviewed and selected decentralized control. Synergy between Grids, P2P from numerous submissions. They are organized systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- in topical sections on cloud computing, security, and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale privacy and trust, service engineering fundamentals, environments. This special issue of[..] [..] Features Fields of interest The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Computer Communication Networks; Software Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses Engineering; Information Systems Applications on data management, knowledge discovery, and (incl.Internet); Algorithm Analysis and Problem knowledge processing, which are core and hot Complexity; Information Storage and Retrieval; topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Programming Techniques Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase Target groups in the demand for resource sharing across different Research sites connected [..] Type of publication Contents Proceedings A Database System for Electrophysiological.- Management of Genotyping-Related Documents by Online orders shipping within 2-3 days. Integrated Use of Semantic Tagging.-MEDCollector: Multisource Epidemic Data Collector.-Supporting BioMedical Information Retrieval: The BioTracer 2011. XVII, 338 p. 84 illus. (Programming and Software Approach.-Electronic Health Record Data-as-a- Engineering, Vol. 6994) Softcover Services Composition Based on Query Rewriting.- 54,00 € A Modular Database Architecture Enabled ISBN 978-3-642-24754-5 to Comparative Sequence Analysis.-[KD3] A Workflow-Based Application for Exploration of Biomedical Data Sets.-A Secured Collaborative Model for Data Integration in Life Sciences.-Flexible- ICA Algorithm for a Reliable Iris[..]
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Is meaningful communication possible between two Video Processing and Virtual Reality & Augmented intelligent parties who share no common language or Computational Video Reality in Industry background? In this work, a theoretical framework is proposed in which it is possible to address when International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October and to what extent such semantic communication 10-15, 2010, Revised Papers "Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Industry" is possible: such problems can be rigorously collects the proceedings of the 2nd Sino-German addressed by explicitly focusing on the goals of the With the swift development of video imaging Workshop on the same topic held in Shanghai on communication. Under this framework, it is possible technology and the drastic improvements in CPU April 16-17, 2009. 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In this work, a theoretical a compilation of selected articles resulting from a Jürgen Gausemeier is a professor of Computer- framework is proposed in which it is possible to workshop on Video Processing and Computational Integrated Manufacturing at the Heinz Nixdorf address when and to what extent such semantic Video, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in October Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany; Dipl.- communication is possible: such problems can be 2010. The seminar brought together junior and Ing. Michael Grafe is a senior[..] rigorously addressed by explicitly focusing on the seniorresearchers from computer vision, computer goals of the communication. Under this framework, graphics, and image communication, both from[..] Features it is possible to show [..] "Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Industry" Features collects the proceedings of the 2nd Sino-German Contents With the swift development of video imaging Workshop on the same topic held in Shanghai on Chap. 1, Introduction.- Chap. 2, Theory of Finite technology and the drastic improvements in CPU April 16-17, 2009. The papers focus on the latest Goal-Oriented Communication.- Chap. 3, Verifiable speed and memory, both video processing and Virtual Reality (VR) / Augmented Reality (AR) Goals for Communication.- Chap. 4, Conditions computational video are becoming more and technology and its application in industrial processes for Efficiency in Finite Executions.- Chap. 5, more popular. Similar to the digital revolution and presents readers with innovative methods, Computational Complexity of Goals.- Chap. 6, in photography of fifteen years ago, today digital typical case studies and the latest information on Theory of Goal-Oriented Communication in Infinite methods are revolutionizing the way television VR/AR basic [..] Executions.- Chap. 7, The Power of Relaxed Models.- and movies are being made. 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T. Meaney, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW, D.-J. Kwak, Seoul National University, Korea Education Australia; T. Trinick, University of Auckland, New Zealand; U. Fairhall, Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Te Kouto, Rotorua, New Zealand Education for Self-transformation
P. Griffin, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; B. McGaw, Essay Form as an Educational Practice University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; E. Care, University of Collaborating to Meet Language Melbourne, VIC, Australia (Eds.) Challenges in Indigenous Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from Assessment and Teaching of 21st Mathematics Classrooms its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the Century Skills inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate Language can be simultaneously both a support and itself in the first person. Working through essays, the a hindrance to students’ learning of mathematics. modern, ‘post-secular’ self can guide, understand, Rapid—and seemingly accelerating—changes When students have sufficient fluency in the and express its own transformation. 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A. Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Y.J. Dori, M.S. Khine, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain (Ed.) M.A.R.B. Castanho, University of Lisbon, Portugal; G. Güner- Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Eds.) Akdogan, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey (Eds.) Perspectives on Scientific Metacognition in Science Education Argumentation The Researching, Teaching, and Trends in Current Research Learning Triangle Theory, Practice and Research Why is metacognition gaining recognition, Argumentation—arriving at conclusions on a It is impossible not to ask ourselves how to cope both in education generally and in science topic through a process of logical reasoning that with the role and impact of scientific research in learning in particular? What does metacognition includes debate and persuasion— has in recent years teaching and learning. The researching, teaching contribute to the theory and practice of science emerged as a central topic of discussion among and learning triangle explores a growing trend learning? Metacognition in Science Education science educators and researchers. There is now a among top universities across the world to focus discusses emerging topics at the intersection of firm and general belief that fostering argumentation attention on the quality of post-graduate education metacognition with the teaching and learning of in learning activities can develop students’ critical and the success of the educators, using pioneering science concepts, and with higher order thinking thinking and reasoning skills, and that dialogic examples, ranging from classroom-level initiatives more generally. The book provides readers with a and collaborative inquiries are key precursors to to university-wide projects. This book will be of background on metacognition and analyses the latest an engagement in scientific argumentation. It is interest to all scientists, from the budding beginner developments in the field. It also gives an account also reckoned that argumentation helps students to the seasoned supervisor. of best-practice methodology. Expanding on the assimilate knowledge and generate complex theoretical underpinnings of metacognition, and meaning. The consensus among educators is that Features written by world leaders in metacognitive research, involving students in scientific argumentation Although it is currently well accepted that training the chapters present cutting-edge studies on how must play a critical role in the education process for research is a component of all stages of various forms of metacognitive instruction enhance itself. Recent analysis of research trends in science education, its peak is naturally reached at the understanding and thinking in science classrooms. education indicates that argumentation is now the postgraduate level. Successful post-graduate The editors strive for conceptual coherency in the most prevalent research topic in the literature. This education requires the guidance and mentoring of various definitions of metacognition that appear in book attempts to consolidate contemporary thinking senior researchers and educators. Most university the book, and show that the study of metacognition and research on the role of scientific argumentation educators are also scientific researchers, and aligning is not an end in itself. Rather, it[..] in[..] innovations in education with scientific advances is a major [..] Features Features Why is metacognition gaining recognition, Argumentation—arriving at conclusions on a Contents both in education generally and in science topic through a process of logical reasoning that Research in undergraduation.Becoming a learning in particular? What does metacognition includes debate and persuasion— has in recent years bioscientist: undergraduate laboratory experience as contribute to the theory and practice of science emerged as a central topic of discussion among a portal to bioscience identity.Research possibilities learning? Metacognition in Science Education science educators and researchers. There is now a for pre-graduate students.Mentoring the next discusses emerging topics at the intersection of firm and general belief that fostering argumentation generation of research scientists.- Postgraduate metacognition with the teaching and learning of in learning activities can develop students’ critical research supervision.Post-Graduate Education science concepts, and with higher order thinking thinking and reasoning skills, and that dialogic and Workshops as a Model of Education and Discussion more generally. The [..] [..] Platforms.Successful PhD Supervision- A Two- Way process.- Research as a teaching tool.Modern Contents Contents bioscience and biotechnology education and Introduction.- Metacognition in science education: Foreword, Deanna Kuhn.- PART I: Theoretical resources for educators.Experimental Bioscience for Definitions, constituents, and their intricate relation Premises of the Study of Argumentation.- Chapter 1 the Classroom. with cognition.- Reading science: How a naive view Introduction, Jonathan Osborne, Anna MacPherson, of reading hinders so much else.- Metacognitive Alexis Patterson, Evan Szu.- Chapter 2 The Two Fields of interest knowledge and field-based science learning in an Faces of Scientific Argumentation: Applications Science Education; Biomedicine (general); outdoor environmental education program.- The to Global Climate Change, E. Michael Nussbaum, Biochemistry role of metacognition in students’ understanding Gale M. Sinatra, Marissa C. Owens.- Chapter 3 and transfer of explanatory structures in science.- The Importance of Embedding Argument within Target groups Self-regulated learning and conceptual development Science Classrooms, Andy Cavagnetto, Brian Hand.- Graduate in young children: The development of biological Chapter 4 Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation understanding.- The role of knowledge integration Type of publication from a Bayesian Perspective, Evan Szu, Jonathan in learning chemistry with dynamic[..] Contributed volume Osborne.- Chapter 5 Students’ Framings and Their Fields of interest Participation in[..] Due: November 28, 2011 Science Education; Learning and Instruction; Fields of interest Teaching and Teacher Education Science Education; Teaching and Teacher Education; 2012. VII, 91 p. 29 illus., 15 in color. 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D.G. Hebert, Bergen University College, Norway Th. Kletschkowski, Helmut-Schmidt-Univeristy, Hamburg, Engineering Germany Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Adaptive Feed-Forward Control of Japanese Schools S. Li, Crosslight Software, Inc., Burnaby, BC, Canada; Y. Fu, Crosslight Software, Inc., Burnaby, BC, Canada Low Frequency Interior Noise This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest 3D TCAD Simulation for This book presents a mechatronic approach to organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Semiconductor Processes, Devices Active Noise Control (ANC). It describes the Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest required elements of system theory, engineering musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and and Optoelectronics acoustics, electroacoustics and adaptive signal well over 500,000 competitors. The book’s insightful processing in a comprehensive, consistent and contribution to our understanding of both music systematic manner using a unified notation. Technology computer-aided design, or TCAD, and education chronicles music learning in Japanese Furthermore, it includes a design methodology is critical to today’s semiconductor technology schools and communities. It examines the contest for ANC-systems, explains its application and and anybody working in this industry needs to from a range of perspectives, including those of describes tools to be used for ANC-system design. know something about TCAD. This book is about policy makers, adjudicators, conductors and young From the research point of view, the book presents how to use computer software to manufacture musicians. The book is an illuminating window on new approaches to sound source localization in and test virtually semiconductor devices in 3D. It the world of Japanese wind bands, a unique hybrid weakly damped interiors. One is based on the brings to life the topic of semiconductor device tradition that comingles contemporary western inverse finite element method, the other is based physics, with a hands-on, tutorial approach that idioms with traditional Japanese influences. In on a sound intensity probe with an active free field. de-emphasizes abstract physics and equations and addition to its social history of Japanese school Furthermore, a prototype of an ANC-system able emphasizes real practice and extensive illustrations. music programs, it shows how participation in to reach the physical limits of local (feed-forward) Coverage includes a comprehensive library of Japanese school bands contributes to students’ sense ANC is described. This is one example for applied devices, representing the state of the art technology, of identity, and sheds new light on the process of research in ANC-system design. Other examples are such as SuperJunction LDMOS, GaN LED devices, learning to play European orchestral instruments. given for (i) local ANC in a semi-enclosed subspace etc. of an aircraft cargo hold and (ii) for the combination Features of audio entertainment with ANC. Features This well researched volume tells the story of music Technology computer-aided design, or TCAD, is education in Japan and of the wind band contest Features critical to today’s semiconductor technology and organized by the All-Japan Band Association. This book presents a mechatronic approach to anybody working in this industry needs to know Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest Active Noise Control (ANC). It describes the something about TCAD. This book is about how musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and required elements of system theory, engineering to use computer software to manufacture and test well over 500,000 competitors. The book’s insightful acoustics, electroacoustics and adaptive signal virtually semiconductor devices in 3D. It brings to contribution to our understanding of both music processing in a comprehensive, consistent and life the topic of semiconductor device physics, with and education chronicles music learning in Japanese systematic manner using a unified notation. a hands-on, tutorial approach that de-emphasizes [..] Furthermore, it includes a design methodology for abstract physics [..] ANC-systems, explains its application and describes Contents tools to be used for ANC-system [..] Contents Foreword.- Part I: A social history of wind bands Semiconductor Industry and TCAD.- Advanced in Japanese schools. Chapter 1: Introduction.- Contents Theory of TCAD Process Simulation.- Advanced Chapter 2: Where are these bands from?.- Part II: Part I Introduction.- 1 Introduction to Interior Theory of TCAD Device Simulation.- Setting Up An ethnography of wind bands in Japanese schools. Active Noise Control.- 1.1 Idea, Limit and Structure a 3D TCAD Simulation.- P-N Junction Diode.- Chapter 3: An invitation to the Tokyo middle of Active Control Concepts.- 1.2 Remarks on MOSFET/ CMOS Technology.- Smart Power school.- Chapter 4: The band rehearsal ritual and its Interior Noise and Active Control Approaches.- Technology and Power Semiconductor Devices.- 3D participants.- Chapter 5: Instruction in the Japanese 1.2.1 Comments on the Interior Noise Problem.- Interconnect Simulation.- CMOS Image Censor.- school band.- Chapter 6: Scenes from the 50th AJBA 1.2.2 Comments on Active Control Approaches.- Hybrid Silicon Laser. national band competition.- Chapter 7: Winning 1.2.3 A Qualitative Comparison of Active Control Approaches.- 1.3 Examples for Engineering in the band: Views from beneath and within.- Fields of interest Applications of Interior ANC.- 1.4 Objective of Chapter 8: Winning in the band: Views from above Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering Book.- Part II The Mechatronic Background of Feed- and beyond.- Chapter 9: Japanese composers and (CAD, CAE) and Design wind[..] Forward Active Noise Control.- 2 Comments on Target groups Signals and Systems.- 2.1 Comments on Signals.- Fields of interest Research 2.1.1 Classification.-[..] Arts Education; Regional and Cultural Studies Type of publication Fields of interest Target groups Professional book Mechatronics; Acoustics; Engineering Acoustics Research Target groups Type of publication Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Research Monograph Type of publication 2012. 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H. Richter, Cleveland State University, OH, USA R. Hamberg, Embedded Systems Institute, Eindhoven, The H. Unger, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany; K. Kyamaky, Alpen Netherlands; J. Verriet, Embedded Systems Institute, Eindhoven, Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria; J. Kacprzyk, Polish Academy The Netherlands (Eds.) of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (Eds.) Advanced Control of Turbofan Engines Automation in Warehouse Autonomous Systems: Development Developments and Trends Advanced Control of Turbofan Engines describes the operational performance requirements of turbofan (commercial) engines from a controls systems The warehouses of the future will come in a variety The Workshops on Autonomous Systems emanated perspective, covering industry-standard methods of forms, but with a few common ingredients. Firstly, from a gathering with the doctoral students of just and research-edge advances. 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In particular, it describes the they are available on the premises for relaxed, aerospace oriented control engineers who need an outcomes of the Falcon project, a joint endeavour by informal discussions outside the formal sessions. introduction to the field. a consortium of industrial and academic partners. Finally, with the co-sponsorship of Gesellschaft für The results include a model-based approach to Informatik, the German Computer Society, and this Features automate warehouse control design, analysis models surprisingly comprehensive volume of contributions Advanced Control of Turbofan Engines describes the for warehouse design, concepts for robotic item published by Springer-Verlag the workshop turned operational performance requirements of turbofan handling and computer vision,[..] into a visible[..] (commercial)engines from a controls systems perspective, covering industry-standard methods Features Features and research-edge advances. This book allows the The warehouses of the future will come in a variety The Workshops on Autonomous Systems emanated reader to design controllers and produce realistic of forms, but with a few common ingredients. Firstly, from a gathering with the doctoral students of just simulations using public-domain software like human operational handling of items in warehouses three chairs at Fernuniversität in Hagen, which we CMAPSS: Commercial Modular Aero-Propulsion is increasingly being replaced by automated organise twice per year for a number of years now. System Simulation, [..] item handling. Extended warehouse automation Their purpose is to discuss on-going research and counteracts the scarcity of human operators and to create a community spirit. Furthermore, they Contents supports the quality of picking processes. Secondly, serve as a means of structuring the students' research Introduction.- Engine Models and Simulation the development of models to simulate and analyse processes. The workshop has grown and matured in Tools.- Engine Control by Classical Methods.- warehouse [..] [..] Engine Control By Robust State Feedback.- Gain Scheduling and Adaptation.- Sliding Mode Control Contents Contents of Turbofan Engines.- Engine Limit Management 1. The Falcon Project: Model-Based Design Concepts.- Decision Making.- Modeling.- Self with Linear Regulators.- Engine Limit Management of Automated Warehouses.- 2. A Reference Organisation.- Nonlinear Systems.- Decentralized with Sliding Modes.- Engine Limit Management Architecture Capturing Structure and Behaviour of Networks.- Decentralized Systems. with Model Predictive Control.- Time-Optimal Warehouse Control.- 3. Decentralised Warehouse Fields of interest Control of Fan Speed.- Representative Linear Model Control Through Agent Organisations.- 4. Model- Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Matrix Listings - 90k Engine.- Representative Linear Driven Software Engineering.- 5. Aggregate Models (incl. 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"Blind Signal Processing: Theory and Practice" not Mixture Formation, Combustion, Emissions and Simulation II only introduces related fundamental mathematics, Combustion Engines Development nowadays 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information but also reflects the numerous advances in the Sciences field, such as probability density estimation-based is based on simulation, not only of the transient processing algorithms, underdetermined models, reaction of vehicles or of the complete driveshaft, Information technology is the enabling foundation complex value methods, uncertainty of order in the but also of the highly unsteady processes in the for all of human activity at the beginning of the 21st separation of convolutive mixtures in frequency carburation process and the combustion chamber century, and advances in this area are crucial to all domains, and feature extraction using Independent of an engine. Different physical and chemical of us. These advances are taking place all over the Component Analysis (ICA). At the end of the approaches are described to show the potentials and world and can only be followed and perceived when book, results from a study conducted at Shanghai limits of the models used for simulation. researchers from all over the world assemble, and Jiao Tong University in the areas of speech signal exchange their ideas in conferences such as the one Features processing, underwater signals, image feature presented in this proceedings volume regarding the In the development of engines and vehicles it is extraction, data compression, and the like are 26th International Symposium on Computer and nowadays standard practice to use commercially discussed. This book will be of particular interest to Information Systems, held at the Royal Society in available computing programmes for simulation, not advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, London on 26th to 28th September 2011.Computer only of the transient reaction of vehicles or of the university instructors and research scientists in and Information Sciences II contains novel advances complete driveshaft, but also of the highly unsteady related disciplines. Xizhi Shi is a Professor at in the state of the art covering applied research in processes in the combustion chamber of an engine. Shanghai Jiao Tong University. electrical and computer engineering and computer Normally the source code is not available for these science, across the broad area of information computing programmes and it takes too much time Features technology. It provides access to the main innovative to study [..] "Blind Signal Processing: Theory and Practice" not activities in research across the world, and points only introduces related fundamental mathematics, Contents to the results obtained recently by some of the most but also reflects the numerous advances in the Part A: Foundations of thermodynamics and active teams in both Europe and Asia. field, such as probability density estimation-based chemistry.- Introduction.- Reciprocating Engines.- processing algorithms, underdetermined models, Features Combustion Diagnostics.- Engine Combustion.- complex value methods, uncertainty of order in the Information technology is the enabling foundation Reactionkinetics.- Pollutant Formation.- Part B: separation of convolutive mixtures in frequency for all of human activity at the beginning of the 21st Simulation of the overall process.- Calculation of domains, and feature extraction using Independent century, and advances in this area are crucial to all the real working Process.- Charging of combustion Component [..] of us. These advances are taking place all over the engines.- Exhaust-Aftertreatment systems.- Part world and can only be followed and perceived when C: Simulation of combustion and charging.- Total Contents researchers from all over the world assemble, and process analysis.- Phenomenological combustion Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Mathematical exchange their ideas in conferences such as the one models.- Three-dimensional flow fields.- Simulation Description of Blind Signal Processing.- Chapter 3. presented in this proceedings volume regarding [..] Independent Component Analysis (ICA).- Chapter of injection processes.- Simulation of combustion.- 4. Non-Linear Principal Component Analysis (PCA) 3D-Supercharging Simulation.- Appendix. Contents and Feature Extraction.- Chapter 5. Non-Linear Search Computing: Addressing Complex Search Fields of interest ICA.- Chapter 6. Convolutive Mixture and Blind on the Web.- Hypergraph-Theoretic Partitioning Automotive Engineering; Engineering Deconvolution.- Chapter 7. Probability Density Models for Parallel Web Crawling.- Web Service Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Estimation Based Blind Processing Algorithm.- Discovery: A Service Oriented, Peer-to-Peer Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment; Energy Chapter 8. Joint Approximate Diagonalization Approach with Categorization.- Finding High Technology; Classical Continuum Physics method - Features in Frequency Domain and Order Dependencies in Data.- Heuristic Algorithms Time Domain.- Chapter 9. Extension of Blind Target groups for Real-Time Unsplittable Data Dissemination Signal Processing.- Chapter 10.Data Analysis and Professional/practitioner Problem.- Automatic Categorization of Ottoman Application Study. 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D. Weinshall, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; J. R. Johansson, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; A. Rantzer, Lund A.C.J. Luo, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, USA; Anemüller, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany; University, Lund, Sweden (Eds.) J.A.T. Machado, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal; D. L. van Gool, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium Baleanu, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey (Eds.) (Eds.) Distributed Decision Making and Dynamical Systems and Methods Detection and Identification of Rare Control
Audio-visual Cues Nonlinear Systems and Methods For Mechanical, Distributed Decision Making and Control is a Electrical and Biosystems presents topics observed mathematical treatment of relevant problems in at the 3rd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Machine learning builds models of the world using distributed control, decision and multiagent systems, Complexity(NSC), focusing on energy transfer training data from the application domain and The research reported was prompted by the recent and synchronization in hybrid nonlinear systems. prior knowledge about the problem. The models are rapid development in large-scale networked and The studies focus on fundamental theories and later applied to future data in order to estimate the embedded systems and communications. One principles,analytical and symbolic approaches, current state of the world. An implied assumption of the main reasons for the growing complexity computational techniques in nonlinear physical is that the future is stochastically similar to the past. in such systems is the dynamics introduced by science and mathematics. Broken into three parts, The approach fails when the system encounters computation and communication delays. Reliability, the text covers: Parametrical excited pendulum, situations that are not anticipated from the past predictability, and efficient utilization of processing nonlinear dynamics in hybrid systems, dynamical experience. In contrast, successful natural organisms power and network resources are central issues system synchronization and (N+1) body dynamics as identify new unanticipated stimuli and situations and the new theory and design methods presented well as new views different from the existing results and frequently generate appropriate responses. The here are needed to analyze and optimize the in nonlinear dynamics, mathematical methods for observation described above lead to the initiation of complex interactions that arise between controllers, dynamical systems including conservation laws, the DIRAC EC project in 2006. In 2010 a workshop plants and networks. The text also helps to meet dynamical symmetry in nonlinear differential was held, aimed to bring together researchers and requirements arising from industrial practice equations and invex energies and nonlinear students from different disciplines in order to for a more systematic approach to the design of phenomena in physical problems such as solutions, present and discuss new approaches for identifying distributed control structures and corresponding complex flows, chemical kinetics, Toda lattices and and reacting to unexpected events in information- information interfaces Theory for coordination of parallel manipulator. This book is useful to scholars, rich environments. This book includes a summary of many different control units is closely related to researchers and advanced technical members of[..] the achievements of the DIRAC project in chapter 1, economics and game theory network uses being[..] and a collection of the papers presented in this[..] Features Features Nonlinear Systems and Methods For Mechanical, Features Distributed Decision Making and Control is a Electrical and Biosystems presents topics observed Machine learning builds models of the world using mathematical treatment of relevant problems in at the 3rd Conference on Nonlinear Science and training data from the application domain and distributed control, decision and multiagent systems, Complexity(NSC), focusing on energy transfer prior knowledge about the problem. The models are The research reported was prompted by the recent and synchronization in hybrid nonlinear systems. later applied to future data in order to estimate the rapid development in large-scale networked and The studies focus on fundamental theories and current state of the world. An implied assumption embedded systems and communications. One of the principles,analytical and symbolic approaches, is that the future is stochastically similar to the past. main reasons for the growing complexity in such computational techniques in nonlinear physical The approach fails when the system encounters systems is the dynamics introduced by computation science and [..] situations that are not anticipated from the past [..] and communication delays. [..] Contents Contents Contents Part I: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.- 1. Introduction.- The DIRAC project.- The detection of Primal and Dual Criteria for Robust Stability Mathematical analysis on chaos of a parametrically incongruent events, project survey and algorithms.- Applied to Large-scale Systems.- Recursive excited pendulum with damping force.- 2. Energy Alternative frameworks to detect meaningful novel Bargaining with Dynamic Accumulation.- Optimal in hybrid system nonlinear dynamics.- 3.Nonlinear events.- Dealing with meaningful novel events, what Controller Synthesis for a Decentralized Two- characteristics diagnosis of dynamical systems to do after detection.- How biological systems deal player Linear-quadratic Regulator via Spectral in engineering.- 4. Synchronization analysis for with novel and incongruent events. Factorization.- Monotone Games for Cognitive two coupled populations of phase oscillators.- Radio Systems.- Decentralized Control with Fields of interest 5. A Pendulum Synchronizing with a Duffing Communication Bandwidth Constraints.- Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Oscillator under a Feedback Control.- 6. The Ring Distributed Nonlinear Estimation for Diverse Sensor (incl. Robotics); Multimedia Information Systems Problem of (N+1) Bodies: An Overview.- Part II: Devices.- Performance Prediction in Uncertain Mathematical Methods.- 7. 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Education Management, Education Education and Educational Energy Methods in Dynamics Theory and Education Application Technology The above examples should make clear the necessity of understanding the mechanism of vibrations This volume includes extended and revised This volume includes extended and revised and waves in order to control them in an optimal versions of a set of selected papers from the 2011 versions of a set of selected papers from the 2011 way. However vibrations and waves are governed 2nd International Conference on Education and 2nd International Conference on Education and by differential equations which require, as a rule, Educational Technology (EET 2011) held in Educational Technology (EET 2011) held in rather complicated mathematical methods for their Chengdu, China, October 1-2, 2011.The mission Chengdu, China, October 1-2, 2011.The mission analysis. The aim of this textbook is to help students of EET 2011 Volume 2 is to provide a forum for of EET 2011 Volume 1 is to provide a forum for acquire both a good grasp of the first principles researchers, educators, engineers, and government researchers, educators, engineers, and government from which the governing equations can be derived, officials involved in the general areas of education officials involved in the general areas of education and the adequate mathematical methods for their management, education theory and education and educational technology to disseminate their solving. Its distinctive features, as seen from the title, application to disseminate their latest research latest research results and exchange views on the lie in the systematic and intensive use of Hamilton's results and exchange views on the future research future research directions of these fields. 130 related variational principle and its generalizations for directions of these fields. 133 related topic papers topic papers were selected into this volume. All deriving the governing equations of conservative and were selected into this volume. All the papers the papers were reviewed by 2 program committee dissipative mechanical systems, and also in providing were reviewed by 2 program committee members members and selected by the volume editor Prof. the direct variational-asymptotic analysis, whenever and selected by the volume editor Prof. Yuanzhi Yuanzhi Wang, from Intelligent Information available, of the energy and dissipation for the Wang, from Intelligent Information Technology Technology Application Research Association, Hong solution of these equations. It will be demonstrated Application Research Association, Hong Kong. The Kong. The conference will bring together leading that many well-known methods in dynamics like conference will bring together leading researchers, researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of those of Lindstedt-Poincare,[..] engineers and scientists in the domain of interest. interest. 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F. Orecchini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; V. Naso, Sapienza C.A.S. Hall, SUNY, Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, L. Zhang, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, University of Rome, Italy NY, USA; K.A. Klitgaard, Wells College, Aurora, NY, USA Australia; C. Zhang, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China (Eds.) Energy Systems in the Era of Energy Energy and the Wealth of Nations Vectors Engineering Education and Understanding the Biophysical Economy Management A Key to Define, Analyze and Design Energy Systems Beyond For the past 150 years, economics has been treated Fossil Fuels Vol 1, Results of the 2011 International Conference on as a social science in which economies are modeled Engineering Education and Management (ICEEM2011) What lies beyond the era of fossil fuels? While as a circular flow of income between producers most answers focus on different primary energy and consumers. 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The conference renewable energy resources available in different environmental impacts of energy production and aims to provide a high-level international forum areas of the world and made exploitable by the consumption become major issues on the world for scientists, engineers, and students to present integration of energy vectors in the global energy stage, this exemption appears illusory at best. In their new advances and research results in the field system. 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C. Rouff, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, L. Mary, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kerala, India C. Zhang, Applied Materials, Sunnyvale, CA, USA; R. Ordóñez, Arlington, VA, USA; M. Hinchey, University of Limerick, Limerick, University of Dayton, OH, USA Ireland (Eds.) Extraction and Representation of Prosody for Speaker, Speech and Extremum-Seeking Control and Experience from the DARPA Urban Applications Challenge Language Recognition A Numerical Optimization-Based Approach
Experience from the DARPA Urban Challenge Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features Extremum-seeking control tracks a varying provides details of the types of systems, software and for Speech Processing Applications deals with maximum or minimum in a performance function processes that were used to develop the complex prosody from speech processing point of view such as output or cost. It attempts to determine unmanned vehicles that participated in the DARPA with topics including: The significance of prosody the optimal performance of a control system as Urban Challenge. The vehicle developers explain for speech processing applicationsWhy prosody it operates, thereby reducing downtime and the how autonomous vehicle software in this race need to be incorporated in speech processing need for system analysis. Extremum-seeking was designed and implemented. The chapters applicationsDifferent methods for extraction and Control and Applications is divided into two parts. range from system and software architecture, representation of prosody for applications such as In the first, the authors review existing analog- navigation, path planning, steering, perception, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language optimization-based extremum-seeking control engineering autonomous systems, and testing and recognition and speech recognitionThis book is for including gradient-, perturbation- and sliding- performance evaluation.This book is based on researchers and students at the graduate level. mode-based control designs. They then propose a papers from entrants in the Urban Challenge. The novel numerical-optimization-based extremum- Features content is broken into five parts:an introduction seeking control based on optimization algorithms N/A to the DARPA Urban Challenge;systems and and state regulation. This control design is developed software architectures;navigation;control and Contents for simple linear time-invariant systems and sensors; anddevelopment and test.Experience from 1. Significance of Prosody for Speaker, Language then extended for a class of feedback linearizable the DARPA Urban Challenge provides graduate and Speech Recognition.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 nonlinear systems. The two main optimization students in robotics and engineering professionals What is prosody.- 1.3 Probabilistic formulation of algorithms – line search and trust region methods with an insight into multiple ways of approaching recognition.- 1.4 Significance of prosody for robust – are analyzed for robustness. Finite-time and the development of autonomous vehicles. recognition.- 1.5 Automatic speaker recognition.- asymptotic state regulators are put forward for 1.6 Automatic language recognition.- 1.7 Automatic linear and nonlinear systems respectively. 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R. Wanhill, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam, I. Samy, TRW Ltd., Solihull, UK; D.-W. Gu, University of Leicester, A. Neustein, Linguistic Technology Systems, Fort Lee, NJ, USA; The Netherlands; S. Barter, Defence Science and Technology UK H.A. Patil, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India (Eds.) Organisation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Fault Detection and Flight Data Forensic Speaker Recognition Fatigue of Beta Processed and Beta Measurement Heat-treated Titanium Alloys Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism Demonstrated on Unmanned Air Vehicles using Neural Forensic Speaker Recognition: Law Enforcement Networks and Counter-Terrorism is an anthology of the This publication reviews most of the available research findings of 35 speaker recognition experts literature on the fatigue properties of β annealed This book considers two popular topics: fault from around the world. The volume provides a Ti-6Al-4V and titanium alloys with similar detection and isolation (FDI) and flight data multidimensional view of the complex science microstructures. The focus is on β processed and β estimation using flush air data sensing (FADS) involved in determining whether a suspect’s voice heat-treated alloys because β annealed Ti-6Al-4V has systems. Literature surveys, comparison tests, truly matches forensic speech samples, collected by been selected for highly loaded and fatigue-critical simulations and wind tunnel tests are performed. law enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies, structures, including the main wing-carry-through In both cases, a UAV platform is considered for that are associated with the commission of a terrorist bulkheads and vertical tail stubs, of advanced demonstration purposes. In the first part of the act or other crimes. While addressing such topics as high-performance military aircraft. An important book, FDI is considered for sensor faults where a the challenges of forensic case work, handling speech aspect of the review is a concise survey of fatigue neural network approach is implemented. FDI is signal degradation, analyzing features of speaker life assessment methods and the required types of applied both in academia and industry resulting recognition to optimize voice verification system fatigue data. This survey provides the background in many publications over the past 50 years or so. performance, and designing voice applications that to recommendations for further research, especially However few publications consider neural networks meet the practical needs of law enforcement and on the fatigue behaviour of β annealed Ti-6Al-4V in comparison to traditional techniques such as counter-terrorism agencies, this material all sounds a under realistic fatigue load histories, including observer based, parameter estimations and parity common theme: how the rigors of forensic utility are the essential topic of short/small fatigue crack space approaches. The second part of this book demanding new levels of excellence in all aspects of growth. Such research is required for independent focuses on how to estimate flight data (angle of speaker recognition. The contributors are among the fatigue life assessments that conform to the aircraft attack, airspeed) using a matrix of pressure sensors most eminent scientists in speech engineering and manufacturer’s design requirements, and also for and a neural network model. In conclusion this signal[..] life reassessments that most probably will have to be book can serve as an introduction to FDI and FADS systems, a literature survey, and a case study for made[..] Features UAV applications. Forensic Speaker Recognition: Law Enforcement Features and Counter-Terrorism is an anthology of the This publication reviews most of the available Features research findings of 35 speaker recognition experts literature on the fatigue properties of β annealed This book considers two popular topics: fault from around the world. The volume provides a Ti-6Al-4V and titanium alloys with similar detection and isolation (FDI) and flight data multidimensional view of the complex science microstructures. The focus is on β processed and β estimation using flush air data sensing (FADS) involved in determining whether a suspect’s voice heat-treated alloys because β annealed Ti-6Al-4V has systems. Literature surveys, comparison tests, truly matches forensic speech samples, collected by been selected for highly loaded and fatigue-critical simulations and wind tunnel tests are performed. law enforcement and counter-terrorism agencies, structures, including the main wing-carry-through In both cases, a UAV platform is considered for that are [..] bulkheads and vertical tail stubs, of advanced [..] demonstration purposes. In the first part of the book, FDI is considered for sensor faults where a neural Contents Contents network approach is [..] I. FORENSIC CASE WORK.- 1. Historical Contents.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Survey and Procedural Overview of Forensic Speaker of fatigue life assessment methods.- 2 Contents Recognition As a Science.- 2. Automatic Speaker Metallurgy and microstructure.- 2.1 The general Introduction.- Fault detection and isolation (FDI).- Recognition for Forensic Case Assessment metallurgy of titanium alloys.- 2.2 Conventional Introduction to FADS systems.- Neural Networks.- and Interpretation.- 3. Aural/Acoustic Versus thermomechanical processing of alloys like SFDA-Single sensor faults.- SFDIA-Multiple Automatic Methods in Forensic Phonetic Case Ti-6Al-4V.- 2.3 β processing and/or β heat- sensor faults.- FADS system applied to a MAV.- Work.- 4. Speaker Profiling:The Study of Acoustic treatment.- 2.4 Crystallography of the β → Conclusions and Future Work. Characteristics Based on Phonetic Features of Hindi α phase transition.- 2.5 Microstructure of β Dialects for Forensic Speaker Identification.- II. annealed Ti-6Al-4V ELI thick plate.- 3 Fatigue Fields of interest SPEECH SIGNAL DEGRADATION: MANAGING crack initiation.- 3.1 Microstructural initiation Control; Computational Intelligence; Aerospace PROBLEMATIC CONDITIONS AFFECTING sites in near-α and α – β alloys: literature.- Technology and Astronautics; Systems Theory, PROBATIVE SPEECH SAMPLES.- 5. 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H. Sheng, Dalian University of Technology, PR China; Y. Chen, Z. Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China; S.(. Xie, D. Doberstein, DKD Instruments, Nipomo, CA, USA Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA; T. Qiu, Dalian University of University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; D. Chen, Wuhan Technology, PR China University of Technology, Wuhan, China Fundamentals of GPS Receivers
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Order Signal Processing Manufacturing Science Fundamentals of GPS receivers covers GPS receivers' Techniques and Applications theory and practice. The book begins with the The manufacturing industry will reap significant basics of GPS receivers and moves onward to more Fractional processes are widely found in science, benefits from encouraging the development of digital advanced material. The book examines three types technology and engineering systems. In Fractional manufacturing science and technology. Digital of GPS receiver implementations: first is the custom Processes and Fractional-order Signal Processing, Manufacturing Science uses theorems, illustrations design by the author; second is an industry standard some complex random signals, characterized by and tables to introduce the definition, theory design, now part of the open source network; the the presence of a heavy-tailed distribution or non- architecture, main content, and key technologies third relates to the receiver designed by JPL /NASA. negligible dependence between distant observations of digital manufacturing science. Readers will be Each receiver is unique allowing the reader to see (local and long memory), are introduced and able to develop an in-depth understanding of the how each design solves the same problems. Chapters examined from the ‘fractional’ perspective using emergence and the development, the theoretical discuss carrier phase measurements and GPS time simulation, fractional-order modeling and filtering background, and the techniques and methods of and frequency measurements. The overall text is and realization of fractional-order systems. These digital manufacturing science. Furthermore, they measurement oriented as opposed to processing the fractional-order signal processing (FOSP) techniques will also be able to use the basic theories and key measurements. With a focus on the fundamentals are based on fractional calculus, the fractional technologies described in Digital Manufacturing of measurements the reader will be building their Fourier transform and fractional lower-order Science to solve practical engineering problems intuition for the physical phenomenon at work. moments. 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Theory System of Digital Time and Frequency Reception.- The Zarlink 12 Contents Manufacturing Science.- 3. Computing GPS Receiver.- Carrier Phase Measurement & Turbo Part I: Overview of Fractional Processes and Manufacturing in Digital Manufacturing Science.- 4. Rogue Receiver.- JPL Turbo Rogue Receiver.- The Fractional-order Signal Processing.- Introduction.- Manufacturing Informatics in Digital Manufacturing L2C Signal.- Appendix A: Sliding Correlatiors, Delay Overview of Fractional Processes and Fractional- Science.- 5. Intelligent Manufacturing in Digital Based Descriminators and Processing Gain with GPS order Signal Processing.- Part II: Fractional Manufacturing Science.- 6. Science of Bionic Applications.- Appendix[..] Processes.- Constant-order Fractional Processes.- Manufacturing in Digital Manufacturing Fields of interest Multifractional Processes.- Part III: Fractional- Science.- 7. 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F. Neri, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; C. Cotta, University R.K. Kamat, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India; S.A. Shinde, Shivaji P. von Böckh, Karlsruhe, Germany; Th. Wetzel, Karlsruhe Institute of Malaga, Spain; P. Moscato, University of Newcastle, NSW, University, Kolhapur, India; P.K. Gaikwad, Shivaji University, of Technology KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany Australia (Eds.) Kolhapur, India; H. Guhilot, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India Heat Transfer Handbook of Memetic Algorithms Harnessing VLSI System Design with EDA Tools Basics and Practice Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are computational The book provides an easy way to understand intelligence structures combining multiple and the fundamentals of heat transfer. The reader With the proliferation of VHDL, the reference various operators in order to address optimization will acquire the ability to design and analyze heat material also grew in the same order. Today there problems. The combination and interaction exchangers. Without extensive derivation of the is good amount of scholarly literature including amongst operators evolves and promotes the fundamentals, the latest correlations for heat transfer many books describing various aspects of VHDL. diffusion of the most successful units and generates coefficients and their application are discussed. However, an indepth review of these books reveals a an algorithmic behavior which can handle complex The following topics are presented - Steady state different story. Many of them have emerged simply objective functions and hard fitness landscapes. and transient heat conduction - Free and forced as an improved version of the manual. While some “Handbook of Memetic Algorithms” organizes, in a convection - Finned surfaces - Condensation of them deal with the system design issues, they lack structured way, all the the most important results in and boiling - Radiation - Heat exchanger design appropriate exemplifying to illustrate the concepts. the field of MAs since their earliest definition until - Problem-solving After introducing the basic Others give large number of examples, but lack now. A broad review including various algorithmic terminology, the reader is made familiar with the the VLSI system design issues. In nutshell, the fact solutions as well as successful applications is different mechanisms of heat transfer. Their practical which gone unnoticed by most of the books, is the included in this book. Each class of optimization application is demonstrated in examples, which are growth of the VLSI is not merely due to the language problems, such as constrained optimization, multi- available in the Internet as MathCad files for further itself, but more due to the development of large objective optimization, continuous vs combinatorial use. Tables of material properties and formulas for number of third party tools useful from the FPGA problems, uncertainties, are analysed separately and, their use in programs are included in the appendix. or semicustom ASIC realization point of view. In for each problem, memetic recipes for tackling the This book will serve as a valuable resource for both the proposed book, the authors have synergized the difficulties are given with some successful examples. students and engineers in the industry.The author’s VHDL programming with appropriate EDA tools Although this book contains chapters written by experience indicates that students, after 40 lectures so as to present a full proof system design to the multiple authors,[..] and[..] readers. In this book along with the VHDL coding Features issues, the[..] Features Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are computational The book provides an easy way to understand Features intelligence structures combining multiple and the fundamentals of heat transfer. The reader This book explores various dimensions of EDA various operators in order to address optimization will acquire the ability to design and analyze heat technologies for achieving different goals in VLSI problems. The combination and interaction exchangers. Without extensive derivation of the system design. Although the scope of EDA is very amongst operators evolves and promotes the fundamentals, the latest correlations for heat transfer broad and comprises diversified hardware and diffusion of the most successful units and generates coefficients and their application are discussed. software tools to accomplish different phases of VLSI an algorithmic behavior which can handle complex The following topics are presented - Steady state system design, such as design, layout, simulation, objective functions and hard fitness landscapes. and transient heat conduction - Free and forced testability, prototyping and implementation, this “Handbook of Memetic [..] convection - [..] book focuses only on demystifying the code, a.k.a. Contents firmware [..] Contents Part I Foundations.- Part II Methodology.- Part III 1. Introduction and definitions.- 2. Heat conduction Contents Applications.- Part IV Epilogue. in static bodies.- 3.Forced convection.- 4. Free Introduction.- Development of FPGA Based convection.- 5. Condensation.- 6. Boiling heat Network on Chip for Circumventing Spam.- Analog Fields of interest transfer.- 7. Radiation.- 8. Heat exchanger.- 9. Front End and FPGA Based Soft IP Core for ECG Appl. Mathematics / Computational Methods of Appendix.- 10. Index.- 11.Literature. Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Logger.- FPGA Based Multifunction Interface for Embedded Applications.- FPGA Based High Fields of interest Target groups Resolution Time to Digital Converter. 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Similar advances are pages, web-page retrieval technique, aggregate covers: creating meaningful innovations that underway in reinforcing materials, notably high k-Nearest Neighbour for answering queries, improve quality of life, engage users and provide strength steel and fibre-reinforced polymers, and in context-aware guide, recommendation system value for organizations and other stakeholders, the way they are combined with concrete into high for museum, meta-learning environment, case- guiding the creation of shared value throughout the performance structures. 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C. Laoudias, University of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece; C. D. Plemenos, University of Limoges, France; G. Miaoulis, J.H.L. Pang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Psychalinos, University of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece (Eds.) Lead Free Solder Integrated Filters for Short Intelligent Computer Graphics 2011 Range Wireless and Biomedical Mechanics and Reliability Applications In Computer Graphics, the use of intelligent Lead-free solders are used extensively as techniques started more recently than in other interconnection materials in electronic assemblies research areas. However, during these last two and play a critical role in the global semiconductor This book describes the design of low-voltage analog decades, the use of intelligent Computer Graphics packaging and electronics manufacturing industry. integrated filters using current mirrors, one of the techniques is growing up year after year and more Electronic products such as smart phones, notebooks most common building blocks both in analog and and more interesting techniques are presented and high performance computers rely on lead- mixed-signal VLSI circuits, offering the advantages in this area. The purpose of this volume is to free solder joints to connect IC chip components of low-voltage operation, derivation of resistorless present current work of the Intelligent Computer to printed circuit boards. Lead Free Solder: topologies and electronic adjustment capability Graphics community, a community growing up year Mechanics and Reliability provides in-depth of their frequency characteristics. Several design after year. This volume is a kind of continuation design knowledge on lead-free solder elastic-plastic- examples are described, using current mirrors of the previously published Springer volumes creep and strain-rate dependent deformation that fulfill the requirements of modern low-power “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer behavior and its application in failure assessment wireless and biomedical applications, such as Graphics” (2008), “Intelligent Computer Graphics of solder joint reliability. It includes coverage universal biquadratic filter topologies, complex 2009” (2009) and “Intelligent Computer Graphics of advanced mechanics of materials theory and filters for Bluetooth/ZigBee low-IF receivers and 2010” (2010). This volume contains selected experiments, mechanical properties of solder and Wavelet filters for cardiac signal detection. The extended papers from the last 3IA Conference solder joint specimens, constitutive models for solder experimental results from the fabricated chips will (3IA’2011), which has been held in Athens (Greece) deformation behavior; numerical modeling and also be presented, showing their utility in modern in May 2011. This year papers are particularly simulation of solder joint failure subject to thermal low-voltage low-power portable devices. exciting and concern areas like virtual reality, cycling, mechanical bending fatigue, vibration artificial life, data visualization, games, global fatigue and board-level drop impact tests. Features illumination, point cloud modelling, declarative[..] This book describes the design of low-voltage analog Features integrated filters using current mirrors, one of the Features Lead-free solders are used extensively as most common building blocks both in analog and In Computer Graphics, the use of intelligent interconnection materials in electronic assemblies mixed-signal VLSI circuits, offering the advantages techniques started more recently than in other and play a critical role in the global semiconductor of low-voltage operation, derivation of resistorless research areas. However, during these last two packaging and electronics manufacturing industry. topologies and electronic adjustment capability decades, the use of intelligent Computer Graphics Electronic products such as smart phones, notebooks of their frequency characteristics. Several design techniques is growing up year after year and more and high performance computers rely on lead-free examples are described, using current mirrors that and more interesting techniques are presented in solder joints to connect IC chip components to [..] this area. The purpose of this volume is to present printed circuit boards. Lead Free Solder: Mechanics current work of the Intelligent Computer Graphics and [..] Contents [..] Introduction.- Universe Biquads Using Current Contents Mirrors.- Complex Filters for Short Range Wireless Contents Introduction.- Theory on Mechanics of Solder Networks.- Filters for Biomedical Applications.- Detecting visual convergence for stochastic global Materials.-Mechanical Properties and Constitutive Electronically Adjustable Current Mirrors.- illumination.- Verbalization of 3D scenes based on Models.- Fatigue Life Prediction Models.- Finite Conclusions. 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M. Adams, San Jose State University, CA, USA S.B. Boyd, Pe Americas LLC, Boston, MA, USA S. Ahuja, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; A. Lakshminarayana, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; S.K. Shukla, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA Lee de Forest Life-Cycle Assessment of
King of Radio, Television, and Film Semiconductors Low Power Design with High-Level
The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the Power Estimation and Power-Aware Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors presents three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 Synthesis the first and thus far only available transparent and and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator complete life cycle assessment of semiconductor of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to devices. A lack of reliable semiconductor LCA data develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading This book presents novel research techniques, has been a major challenge to evaluation of the sound using light patterns. While he received many algorithms, methodologies and experimental results potential environmental benefits of information patents for his process, he was initially ignored for high level power estimation and power aware technologies (IT). The analysis and results presented by the film industry. In order to promote and high-level synthesis. Readers will learn to apply such in this book will allow a higher degree of confidence demonstrate his process he made several hundred techniques to enable design flows resulting in shorter and certainty in decisions concerning the use of sound short films, he rented space for their showing; time to market and successful low power ASIC/ IT in efforts to reduce climate change and other he sold the tickets and did the publicity to gain FPGA design. environmental effects. Coverage includes but audiences for his invention. Lee de Forest officially is not limited to semiconductor manufacturing Features brought sound to film in 1919. Lee De Forest: trends by product type and geography, unique Low-power ASIC/FPGA based designs are important King of Radio, Television, and Film is about both coverage of life-cycle assessment, with a focus on due to the need for extended battery life, reduced invention and early film making; de Forest as the uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of energy and form factor, and lower packaging and cooling costs scientist and producer, director, and writer of the global warming missions for CMOS logic devices, for electronic devices. These products require fast content. This book tells the story of de Forest’s life cycle assessment of flash memory and life turnaround time because of the increasing demand contribution in changing the history of film through cycle assessment of DRAM. The information and for handheld electronic devices such as cell-phones, the incorporation of sound. The text includes conclusions discussed here will be highly relevant PDAs and high performance machines for data primary source historical material, U.S. patents and useful to individuals and institutions. centers. To achieve short time to market, design and[..] flows must [..] Features Features Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors presents Contents Lee de Forest, Yale doctorate and Oscar winner, the first and thus far only available transparent and Introduction.- Related Work.- Background.- gave voice to the radio and the motion picture. Yet complete life cycle assessment of semiconductor Architectural Selection using High Level Synthesis.- by the 1930s, after the radio and the Talkies were devices. A lack of reliable semiconductor LCA data Statistical Regression Based Power Models.- regular features of American life, Lee de Forest had has been a major challenge to evaluation of the Coprocessor Design Space Exploration Using High seemingly lost everything. Why? Why didn’t he potential environmental benefits of information Level Synthesis.- Regression-based Dynamic Power receive the recognition and acclaim he sought his technologies (IT). The analysis and results presented Estimation for FPGAs.- High Level Simulation entire life until years later in 1959, when he was in this book will allow a higher degree of [..] Directed RTL Power Estimation.- Applying awarded an Oscar?A lifelong innovator, Lee de Verification Collaterals for Accurate Power Forest [..] Contents Estimation.- Power Reduction using High-Level 1 Introduction.- 2 Semiconductor LCI Methods.- 3 Contents Clock-gating.- Model-Checking to exploit Sequential Semiconductor Manufacturing Trends in Product Chapter 1 Born to Invent.- Chapter 2 The Race for Clock-gating.- System Level Simulation Guided Type and Geography.- 4 Life-cycle Energy and Wireless.- Chapter 3 The Meaning of the Audion.- Approach for Clock-gating.- Conclusions. 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P. Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico D.A. Pelta, University of Granada, Spain; N. Krasnogor, University 129,95 € of Nottingham, UK; D. Dumitrescu, Babes-Bolyai University ISBN 978-3-642-24093-5 of Cluj Napoca, Romania; C. Chira, Babes-Bolyai University, Modular Neural Networks and Cluj-Napoca, Romania; R. Lung, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Type-2 Fuzzy Systems for Pattern Napoca, Romania (Eds.) Recognition Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO This book describes hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks for 2011) pattern recognition applications. Hybrid intelligent systems combine several intelligent computing Biological and other natural processes have always paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, been a source of inspiration for computer science and bio-inspired optimization algorithms, which and information technology. Many emerging can be used to produce powerful pattern recognition problem solving techniques integrate advanced systems. Type-2 fuzzy logic is an extension of evolution and cooperation strategies, encompassing traditional type-1 fuzzy logic that enables managing a range of spatio-temporal scales for visionary higher levels of uncertainty in complex real world conceptualization of evolutionary computation.The problems, which are of particular importance in the previous editions of NICSO were held in Granada, area of pattern recognition. The book is organized Spain (2006), Acireale, Italy (2007), Tenerife, Spain in three main parts, each containing a group of (2008), and again in Granada in 2010. NICSO chapters built around a similar subject. The first evolved to be one of the most interesting and part consists of chapters with the main theme of profiled workshops in nature inspired computing. theory and design algorithms, which are basically NICSO 2011 has offered an inspiring environment chapters that propose new models and concepts, for debating the state of the art ideas and techniques which are the basis for achieving intelligent pattern in nature inspired cooperative strategies and a recognition. The second part contains chapters with comprehensive image on recent applications of these the main theme of using type-2 fuzzy models and ideas and techniques.The topics covered by this modular[..] volume include Swarm Intelligence (such as Ant Features and Bee Colony Optimization), Genetic Algorithms, This book describes hybrid intelligent systems using Multiagent Systems, Coevolution and Cooperation type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks for strategies, Adversarial Models,[..] pattern recognition applications. Hybrid intelligent Features systems combine several intelligent computing Biological and other natural processes have always paradigms, including fuzzy logic, neural networks, been a source of inspiration for computer science and bio-inspired optimization algorithms, which and information technology. Many emerging can be used to produce powerful pattern recognition problem solving techniques integrate advanced systems. Type-2 fuzzy logic is an extension of [..] evolution and cooperation strategies, encompassing Contents a range of spatio-temporal scales for visionary Part I: Basic Concepts and Theory.- Part II Modular conceptualization of evolutionary computation.The Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition.- Part III previous editions of NICSO were held in Granada, Optimization of Modular Neural Networks for Spain (2006), [..] Pattern Recognition. Contents Fields of interest From the content: Ant Colony Optimization for Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Automatic Design of Strategies in an Adversarial (incl. Robotics); Pattern Recognition Model.- Resource Allocation and Dispensation Impact of Stochastic Diffusion Search on Target groups Differential Evolution Algorithm.- An Adaptive Research Multiagent Strategy for Solving Combinatorial Dynamic Optimization Problems.- Interactive Type of publication Intonation Optimisation Using CMA-ES and DCT Monograph Parameterisation of the F0 Contour for Speech Synthesis.- Genotype-Fitness Correlation Analysis Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days for Evolutionary Design of Self-Assembly Wang Tiles.- Model Order Reduction of Single Input Single Output Systems using Artificial Bee[..] 2012. X, 214 p. 151 illus., 67 in color. (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 389) Hardcover Fields of interest Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence 99,95 € (incl. Robotics); Statistics for Engineering, Physics, ISBN 978-3-642-24138-3 Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
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Automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a This book contains a collection of the main lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. contributions from the first five workshops held These factors include the number of issues, by Ercoftac Special Interest Group on Synthetic dependencies between these issues, representation Turbulence Models (SIG42. It is intended as an of utilities, the negotiation protocol, the number illustration of the sig’s activities and of the latest of parties in the negotiation (bilateral or multi- developments in the field.This volume investigates party), time constraints, etc. Software agents can the use of Kinematic Simulation (KS) and other support automation or simulation of such complex synthetic turbulence models for the particular negotiations on the behalf of their owners, and can application to environmental flows.This volume provide them with efficient bargaining strategies. To offers the best syntheses on the research status in KS, realize such a complex automated negotiation, we which is widely used in various domains, including have to incorporate advanced Artificial Intelligence Lagrangian aspects in turbulence mixing/stirring, technologies includes search, CSP, graphical particle dispersion/clustering, and last but not least, utility models, Bayes nets, auctions, utility graphs, aeroacoustics. Flow realizations with complete predicting and learning methods. Applications could spatial, and sometime spatio-temporal, dependency, include e-commerce tools, decision-making support are generated via superposition of random modes tools, negotiation support tools, collaboration tools, (mostly spatial, and sometime spatial and temporal, etc. This book[..] Fourier modes), with prescribed constraints such as: strict incompressibility (divergence-free velocity Features field at each point), high Reynolds energy spectrum. 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It is intended as an negotiation protocol, the number of parties in the [..] illustration of the sig’s activities and of the latest developments in the field.This volume investigates Contents the use of Kinematic Simulation (KS) and other From the content: The Effect of Preference synthetic turbulence models for the particular Representation on Learning Preferences in application to [..] Negotiation.- Bilateral Single-Issue Negotiation Model Considering Nonlinear Utility and Time Contents Constraint.- The Effect of Grouping Issues in The impact of Kinematic Simulations on quantum Multiple Interdependent Issues Negotiation based turbulence theory, by Demosthenes Kivotides.- 1 on Cone-Constraints.- Automated Agents that Introduction.- 2 Mathematical model;3 Results.- 4 Proficiently Negotiate with People: Can We Keep Conclusion.- References.- Detached Eddy Simulation People out of the Evaluation Loop.- Matchmaking in for turbulent flows in a pipe with a snowflake fractal Multi-attribute Auctions using a Genetic Algorithm orifice, by H. 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T. Maeda, Railway Technical Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan; P.- J. Warminski, Lublin University of Technology, Poland; S. Lenci, ISBN 978-94-007-2472-3 E. Gautier, INEXIA, Saint Denis La Plaine, France; C. Hanson, Harris Università Politecnica delle Marche - Ancona, Italy; M.P. Cartmell, Miller Miller & Hanson Inc., MA, USA; B. Hemsworth, LLP, Derby, University of Glasgow, UK; G. Rega, Dipartimento di Ingegneria UK; J. Nelson, Wilson, Ihrig & Associates, CA, USA; B. Schulte- Strutturale e Geotecnica, Roma, Italy; M. Wiercigroch, University Werning, Deutsche Bahn AG, Munchen, Germany; D. Thompson, of Aberdeen, UK (Eds.) University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; P. Vos, DHV BV, Amersfoort, the Netherlands (Eds.) Nonlinear Dynamic Phenomena in Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Mechanics Rail Transportation Systems Nonlinear phenomena should play a crucial role Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Railway in the design and control of engineering systems Noise, Nagahama, Japan, 18-22 October 2010 and structures as they can drastically change the prevailing dynamical responses. This book covers This volume contains the contributions to the 10th theoretical and applications-based problems of International Workshop on Railway Noise, held nonlinear dynamics concerned with both discrete October 18–22, 2010, in Nagahama, Japan, organized and continuous systems of interest in civil and by the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), mechanical engineering. They include pendulum- Japan. With 11 sessions and 3 poster sessions, the like systems, slender footbridges, shape memory workshop featured presentations by international alloys, sagged elastic cables and non-smooth leaders in the field of railway noise and vibration. problems.Pendulums can be used as a dynamic All subjects relating to 1. prospects, legal regulation, absorber mounted in high buildings, bridges or and perception; 2. wheel and rail noise; 3. structure- chimneys. Geometrical nonlinearities introduced by borne noise and squeal noise; 4. ground-borne pendulum motion may change the system dynamics, vibration; 5. aerodynamic noise and micro-pressure and entail a rapid increase of the oscillations of waves from tunnel portals; 6. interior noise and both the structure and the pendulum, leading to sound barriers; and 7. prediction, measurements, full pendulum rotation or chaotic dynamics. To and monitoring are addressed here. This book is magnetorheological damping is proposed.Nonlinear a useful “state-of-the-art” reference for scientists mechanics has to be used to explain undesired and engineers involved in solving environmental response in slender footbridges, such as that problems of railways. occurred in the famous event of the London Features Millenium Bridge.[..] This volume contains the contributions to the 10th Features International Workshop on Railway Noise, held Nonlinear phenomena should play a crucial role October 18–22, 2010, in Nagahama, Japan, organized in the design and control of engineering systems by the Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), and structures as they can drastically change the Japan. With 11 sessions and 3 poster sessions, the prevailing dynamical responses. This book covers workshop featured presentations by international theoretical and applications-based problems of leaders in the field of railway noise and vibration. All nonlinear dynamics concerned with both discrete subjects relating to 1. prospects, legal regulation, [..] and continuous systems of interest in civil and Fields of interest mechanical engineering. They include [..] Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Civil Contents Engineering; Engineering Design Autoparametric Vibrations of a Nonlinear Target groups System with a Pendulum and Magnetorheological Professional/practitioner Damping, by Jerzy Warminski and Krzysztof Kecik: Introduction to Autoparametric Vibrations.- Type of publication Model of the Nonlinear Oscillator with an Proceedings Attached Pendulum.- Approximate Analytical Solutions and Their Stability.- Regular and Chaotic Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Dynamics Near the Main Parametric Resonance.- Experimental Setup of the System with Active MR Damper.- Dynamics of an Autoparametric 2012. XVI, 584 p. 449 illus. (Notes on Numerical Fluid System with MR Damper.- Influence of a Nonlinear Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, Vol. 118) System’s Suspension on the InstabilityRegions.- Hardcover Conclusions and Remarks.- References.-[..]
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(Intelligent Optimal Mobile Sensing and On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, Vol. 54) Hardcover Actuation Policies in Cyber-physical Systems into the National Airspace Systems System 129,95 € ISBN 978-94-007-2478-5 Issues, Challenges, Operational Restrictions, Certification, and A successful cyber-physical system, a complex Recommendations interweaving of hardware and software with some part of the physical environment, depends on proper This book presents, in a comprehensive way, current identification of the, often pre-existing, physical unmanned aviation regulation, airworthiness element. A bespoke “cyber” part of the system may certification, special aircraft categories, pilot then be designed from scratch. Optimal Mobile certification, federal aviation requirements, Sensing and Actuation Strategies in Cyber-physical operation rules, airspace classes and regulation Systems focuses on distributed-parameter systems development models.It discusses unmanned aircraft the dynamics of which can be modelled with partial systems levels of safety derived mathematically differential equations. These are very challenging based on the corresponding levels for manned to observe, their states and inputs being distributed aviation. It provides an overview of the history and throughout a spatial domain. Consequently, current status of UAS airworthiness and operational systematic approaches to the optimization of sensor regulation worldwide. Existing regulations have location have to be devised for parameter estimation. been developed considering the need for a complete The text begins by reviewing the field of cyber- regulatory framework for UAS. It focuses on UAS physical systems and introducing background safety assessment and functional requirements, notions of distributed parameter systems and achieved in terms of defining an “Equivalent Level optimal observation theory. New research problems of Safety”, or ELOS, with that of manned aviation, are then defined within this framework. Two specifying what the ELOS requirement entails for important problems considered are optimal mobile UAS regulations. To accomplish this, the safety sensor trajectory planning and the[..] performance of manned aviation is first evaluated, followed by a novel model to derive reliability Features requirements for achieving target[..] A successful cyber-physical system, a complex interweaving of hardware and software in direct Features interaction with some parts of the physical This book presents, in a comprehensive way, current environment, relies heavily on proper identification unmanned aviation regulation, airworthiness of the, often pre-existing, physical elements. Based certification, special aircraft categories, pilot on information from that process, a bespoke “cyber” certification, federal aviation requirements, part of the system may then be designed for a specific operation rules, airspace classes and regulation purpose. Optimal Mobile Sensing and Actuation development models.It discusses unmanned aircraft Strategies in [..] systems levels of safety derived mathematically based on the corresponding levels for manned aviation. It Contents [..] Introduction.- Distributed Parameter Systems: Controllability, Observability and Identification.- Contents Optimal Heterogeneous Mobile Sensing for 1 Introduction.- 1.1 What’s in a name . . .UAV Parameter Estimation of Distributed Parameter or UAS?.- 1.2 Motivation and Rationale.- 1.3 Systems.- Optimal Mobile Remote Sensing Policies.- On Regulating Safety.- 1.4 Book Objectives and On-line Optimal Mobile Sensing Policies: Finite- Outline.- References.- 2 Aviation History and horizon Control Framework.- Optimal Mobile Unmanned Flight.- 2.1 Precursors of Flight Actuation/Sensing Policies for Parameter Estimation and Unmanned Aircraft.- 2.2 1916–1944.- 2.3 off Distributed Parameter Systems.- Optimal Mobile The Machines of the Cold War.- 2.4 Modern Sensing with Fractional Sensor Dynamics.- Optimal Systems.- 2.5 Remarks.- References.- 3 Current Mobile Remote Sensing Policy for Downscaling and Manned Aviation Regulation.- 3.1 Introduction.- Assimiliation Problems.- Conclusions and Future 3.2 Airworthiness Certification.- 3.2.1 Type Work.-[..] Certificate.- 3.2.2 Standard Certificates.- 3.2.3 Special Certificates.- 3.3 Special Aircraft Categories.- Fields of interest 3.3.1[..] Mechatronics; Computer Communication Networks; Control; Communications Engineering, Networks; Fields of interest Soil Science & Conservation Robotics and Automation; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space; Aerospace Technology and Target groups Astronautics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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M.S. Basualdo, CIFASIS-(CONICET-UNR-UPCAM)-UTN, Rosario, ISBN 978-1-84996-183-7 V. Boronenkov, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Argentina; D. Feroldi, CIFASIS-(CONICET-UNR-UPCAM), Rosario, Russia; M. Zinigrad, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel; Argentina; R. Outbib, LSIS- Domaine Universitaire de Saint- L. Leontiev, Institute of Metallurgy of UD RAS, Ekatarinburg, Jérôme, MARSEILLE, France (Eds.) Russia; E. Pastukhov, Institute of Metallurgy of UD RAS, Ekatarinburg, Russia; M. Shalimov, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; S. Shanchurov, Ural State PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Technical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia Processor Systems Phase Interaction in the Metal - A Multidisciplinary Study of Modelling, Simulation, Fault Diagnosis and Advanced Control Oxide Melts - Gas -System
An apparently appropriate control scheme for PEM The Modeling of Structure, Properties and Processes fuel cells may actually lead to an inoperable plant when it is connected to other unit operations in a This monograph describes mathematical models process with recycle streams and energy integration. that enable prediction of phase compositions for PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems various technological processes, as developed on presents a control system design that provides basic the base of a complex physico-chemical analysis of regulation of the hydrogen production process with reaction. It studies thermodynamics and kinetics PEM fuel cells. It then goes on to construct a fault of specific stages of complex pyrometallurgical diagnosis system to improve plant safety above this processes involving boron, carbon, sulfur, tungsten, control structure.PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol phosphorus, and many more, as well as their Processor Systems is divided into two parts: the first exposure to all sorts of factors.First and foremost, covers fuel cells and the second discusses plants this enables to optimize processes and technologies for hydrogen production from bio-ethanol to feed at the stage of design, while traditional empirical PEM fuel cells. Both parts give detailed analyses means of development of new technologies are of modeling, simulation, advanced control, and basically incapable of providing an optimal solution. fault diagnosis. They give an extensive, in-depth Simulation results of metals and alloys production, discussion of the problems that can occur in fuel cell welding and coating technologies allow obtaining systems and propose a way to control these systems materials with pre-given composition, structure through advanced control algorithms. A significant and properties in a cost-saving and conscious part of the book is also given over to[..] manner. Moreover, a so-called "inverse problem", i.e., selecting source materials which would ensure Features the required results, cannot be solved by any other An apparently appropriate control scheme for PEM means. fuel cells may actually lead to an inoperable plant when it is connected to other unit operations in a Features process with recycle streams and energy integration. This monograph describes mathematical models PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems that enable prediction of phase compositions for presents a control system design that provides basic various technological processes, as developed on regulation of the hydrogen production process with the base of a complex physico-chemical analysis of PEM fuel cells. It then goes on to construct [..] reaction. It studies thermodynamics and kinetics of specific stages of complex pyrometallurgical Contents processes involving boron, carbon, sulfur, tungsten, 1. Introduction.- 2. Description of PEM Fuel phosphorus, and many more, as well as their Cells System.- 3. Advanced Control Strategies for exposure to all sorts [..] the Oxygen in the Cathode.- 4. Simulation and Control of PEMFCS Thermal Behavior.- 5. Fault Contents Diagnosis of PEM Fuel Cell.- 6. Fault Diagnosis Introduction.- Metal and Slag Melts Structure and and Fault Tolerant Control of PEM Fuel Cell.- 7. Properties Theory.- High-Temperature Processes Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems.- 8. Energy Management Simulation.- Mathematical Models for Steel Strategies for Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems.- 9. Design Production.- High-Temperature Physico-Chemical and Control of an Integrated Bio-Ethanol Processor Processes of Welding, Depositing, and Coating.- withPEMFC.- 10. Control Oriented Dynamic Structure, Phase Composition and Properties Model of the Bio-ethanol Processor System.- 11. Prediction. Mathematical Model Implementation for Simulation Fields of interest Purposes.- 12.[..] Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Fields of interest Transfer; Metallic Materials; Condensed Matter Renewable and Green Energy; Industrial Chemistry / Physics Chemical Engineering; Electrochemistry; Target groups Environmental Engineering / Biotechnology; Research Simulation and Modeling; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk Type of publication Monograph Target groups Research Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Type of publication Monograph 2012. XIII, 407 p. 149 illus. (Engineering Materials) Hardcover Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days 129,95 € ISBN 978-3-642-22376-1 2012. XXIX, 461 p. 242 illus., 1 in color. (Green Energy and Technology) Hardcover
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I.T. Christou, Athens Information Technology, Paiania, Greece A. Lisnianski, The Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., Haifa, Israel; T. Dong, AG Prof. Helbig, Hagen, Germany I. Frenkel, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel (Eds.) Quantitative Methods in Supply Recognizing Variable Environments
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Models and Algorithms Reliability Normal adults do not have any difficulty in recognizing their homes. But can artificial systems Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management Signatures, Multi-state Systems and Statistical Inference do in the same way as humans? This book collects presents some of the most important methods and interdisciplinary evidences and presents an answer tools available for modeling and solving problems Recent Advances in System Reliability discusses from the perspective of computing, namely, arising in the context of supply chain management. developments in modern reliability theory such the theory of cognitive prism. To recognize an In the context of this book, “solving problems” as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical environment, an intelligent system only needs usually means designing efficient algorithms for inference. It describes the latest achievements in to classify objects, structures them based on the obtaining high-quality solutions.The first chapter these fields, and covers the application of these connection relation (not through measuring!), is an extensive optimization review covering achievements to reliability engineering practice.The subjectively orders the objects, and compares continuous unconstrained and constrained linear chapters cover a wide range of new theoretical with the target environment, whose knowledge is and nonlinear optimization algorithms, as well as subjects and have been written by leading experts similarly structured. The intelligent system works, dynamic programming and discrete optimization in reliability theory and its applications. The therefore, like a prism: when a beam of light (a exact methods and heuristics. The second chapter topics include: concepts and different definitions scene) reaches (is perceived) to an optical prism presents time-series forecasting methods together of signatures (D-spectra), their properties and (by an intelligent system), some light (objects) is with prediction market techniques for demand applications to reliability of coherent systems and reflected (are neglected), those passed through forecasting of new products and services. The third network-type structures; Lz-transform of Markov (the recognized objects) are distorted (are ordered chapter details models and algorithms for planning stochastic process and its application to multi- differently). So comes the term 'cognitive prism'! and scheduling with an emphasis on production state system reliability analysis; methods for cost- Two fundamental propositions used in the theory planning and personnel scheduling. The fourth reliability and cost-availability analysis of multi- can be informally stated as follow: an orientation chapter presents deterministic and stochastic models state systems; optimal replacement and protection relation is a kind of distance[..] for inventory control with a detailed analysis on strategy; and statistical inference.Recent Advances periodic review systems and[..] in System Reliability presents many examples to illustrate the theoretical results. Real world multi- Features Normal adults do not have any difficulty in Features state[..] recognizing their homes. But can artificial systems Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management do in the same way as humans? This book collects presents some of the most important methods and Features interdisciplinary evidences and presents an answer tools available for modeling and solving problems Recent Advances in System Reliability discusses from the perspective of computing, namely, arising in the context of supply chain management. developments in modern reliability theory such the theory of cognitive prism. To recognize an In the context of this book, “solving problems” as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical environment, an intelligent system only needs usually means designing efficient algorithms for inference. It describes the latest achievements in to classify objects, structures them based on the obtaining high-quality solutions.The first chapter is these fields, and covers the application of these connection relation (not [..] an extensive optimization review covering [..] achievements to reliability engineering practice.The chapters cover a wide range of new theoretical Contents Contents subjects and have been written by leading experts [..] An introduction.- The state of the art.- Research 1. A Review of Optimization Methods.- 2. topics and research questions.- Recognizing Forecasting.- 3. Planning and Scheduling.- 4. Contents spatial environments: A commonsense approach.- Inventory Control.- 5. Location Theory and 1. Signature Representation and Preservation The formalism: A region-based representation Distribution Management.- 6. Epilogue. Results for Engineered Systems and Applications to Statistical Inference.- 2. Using D-Spectra in Network and reasoning of spatial environments.- A List Fields of interest Monte Carlo: Estimation of System Reliability representation of recognizing Indoor Vista spatial Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, and Component Importance.- 3. Signatures and Environments: The LIVE model.- Conclusions, Marketing; Production / Logistics; Algorithms; Symmetry Properties of Coherent Systems.- 4. evaluations, discussions, and future work. Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk Multidimensional Spectra of Multistate Systems with Binary Components.- 5. Applications of Samaniego Fields of interest Target groups Signatures to Bounds on Variances of Coherent Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Research and Mixed System Lifetimes.- 6. Lz-Transform (incl. 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A. Baños, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.; A. Barreiro, Escuela M.N. Fardis, University of Patras, Greece; Z.T. Rakicevic, Institute ISBN 978-94-007-1976-7 Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales de Vigo, Spain. of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS), Skopje, Macedonia (Eds.) Reset Control Systems Role of Seismic Testing Facilities
Reset Control Systems addresses the analysis for in Performance-Based Earthquake reset control treating both its basic form, and Engineering some useful variations of the reset action and reset condition. The issues regarding reset control – SERIES Workshop concepts and motivation; analysis tools; and the Nowadays research in earthquake engineering is application of design methodologies to real-world mainly experimental and in large-scale; advanced examples – are given thorough coverage. The text computations are integrated with large-scale opens with a historical perspective which moves experiments, to complement them and extend from the seminal work of the Clegg integrator and their scope, even by coupling two different but Horowitz FORE to more recent approaches based simultaneous tests. Earthquake engineering cannot on impulsive/hybrid control systems and explains give answers by testing and qualifying few, small the motivation for reset compensation. Preliminary typical components or single large prototypes. material is also included. The focus then turns to Besides, the large diversity of Civil Engineering stability analysis for systems using techniques which structures does not allow drawing conclusions from account for various time- and frequency-domain only a few tests; structures are large and their seismic criteria. The final section of the book is centered on response and performance cannot be meaningfully control systems design and application. The PI+CI tested in an ordinary lab or in the field. So, seismic compensator is detailed as are a proposed frequency testing facilities should be much larger than in other domain approach using quantitative feedback theory scientific fields; their staff has to be resourceful, and ideas for design improvement. Design examples devising intelligent ways to carry out simultaneously are given. different tests and advanced computations. To better Features serve such a mission European testing facilities and Reset Control Systems addresses the analysis for researchers in earthquake engineering have shared reset control treating both its basic form which their resources and activities in the framework of[..] requires only that the state of the controller be Features reinitialized to zero (the reset action) each time the Nowadays research in earthquake engineering is tracking error crosses zero (the reset condition), and mainly experimental and in large-scale; advanced some useful variations of the reset action (partial computations are integrated with large-scale reset with fixed or variable reset percentage) and of experiments, to complement them and extend the reset condition (fixed or variable [..] their scope, even by coupling two different but Contents simultaneous tests. Earthquake engineering cannot Introduction.- Preliminaries and Basic Results.- give answers by testing and qualifying few, small Stability of Reset Control Systems.- Stability of Time- typical components or single large prototypes. delayed Reset Control Systems.- Design of Reset Besides, the large diversity [..] Control Systems.- Application Cases. Contents Fields of interest Preface.- 1 How Can Experimental Testing Control; Information Systems Applications Contribute to Performance-Based Earthquake (incl.Internet); Building Construction, HVAC, Engineering; F. Taucer, A. Pinto.- 2 Earthquake and Refrigeration; Renewable and Green Energy Large Structures Testing at the Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering; M.S. Dietz Target groups et al.- 3 Structural and Behaviour Constraints of Research Shaking Table Experiments; Z.T. Rakicevic, A. Bogdanovic, D. Jurukovski.- 4 Eucentre TREES Lab: Type of publication Laboratory for Training and Research in Earthquake Monograph Engineering and Seismology; S. Peloso, A. Pavese, C. Casarotti.- 5 Cross-Facility Validation of Dynamic Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Centrifuge Testing; U. Cilingir et al.- 6 Towards a European[..]
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D. Soudris, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, R. Lee, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA (Ed.) E. Venosa, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA; f.j. Greece; A. Jantsch, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden harris, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA; F.A.N. (Eds.) Palmieri, Seconda Università di Napoli, Aversa, Italy Software Engineering Research, Scalable Multi-core Architectures Management and Applications Software Radio 2011 Design Methodologies and Tools Sampling Rate Selection, Design and Synchronization
As Moore’s law continues to unfold, two The purpose of the 9th International Conference This book describes the design of Software Radio important trends have recently emerged. First, on Software Engineering Research, Management (SWR). Rather than providing an overview of digital the growth of chip capacity is translated into a and Applications(SERA 2011) held on August signal processing and communications, this book corresponding increase of number of cores. Second, 10-12, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland was to bring focuses on topics which are crucial in the design and the parallelization of the computation and 3D together scientists, engineers, computer users, and development of a SWR, explaining them in a very integration technologies lead to distributed memory students to share their experiences and exchange simple, yet precise manner, giving simulation results architectures. This book describes recent research new ideas and research results about all aspects that confirm the effectiveness of the proposed design. that addresses urgent challenges in many-core (theory, applications and tools) of computer and Readers will gain in-depth knowledge of key issues architectures and application mapping. It addresses information sciences, and to discuss the practical so they can actually implement a SWR. the architectural design of many core chips, memory challenges encountered along the way and the Features and data management, power management, design solutions adopted to solve them. The conference Software Radio represents the future of and programming methodologies. It also describes organizers selected 12 outstanding papers from communication devices. By moving a radio's how new techniques have been applied in various SERA 2011, all of which you will find in this volume hardware functionalities into software, SWR industrial case studies. of Springer’s Studies in Computational Intelligence. promises to change the communication Features Features devices creating radios that, built on DSP based As Moore’s law continues to unfold, two The purpose of the 9th International Conference hardware platforms, are multiservice, multiband, important trends have recently emerged. First, on Software Engineering Research, Management reconfigurable and reprogrammable.This book the growth of chip capacity is translated into a and Applications(SERA 2011) held on August describes the design of Software Radio (SWR). corresponding increase of number of cores. Second, 10-12, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland was to bring Rather than providing an overview of digital [..] the parallalization of the computation and 3D together scientists, engineers, computer users, and Contents integration technologies lead to distributed memory students to share their experiences and exchange Software Radio: from Idea to Reality.- Sampling architectures.This book provides a current snapshot new ideas and research results about all aspects Rate Selection, Timing Jitter and Time Interleaved of industrial and academic research, conducted as (theory, applications and tools) of computer and ADCs.- Radio Design.- Spectral Analysis.- part of the [..] information [..] Synchronization. Contents Contents Fields of interest Part I: HS/SW/ Building Blocks: Architecture, From the content: Implementing the Modeling- Circuits and Systems; Electronics and Methods, and Techniques.- 1. Memory Architecture based Approach for Supporting the Software Process Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Signal, Image and Management in an NoC Platform.- 2. Assessment in SPI initiatives inside a Small Software and Speech Processing Application-Specific Multi-Threaded Dynamic Company.- Predicting 911 Calls Using Spatial Memory Management.- 3. Power Management Analysis.- A Market-Driven Product Line Scoping.- Architecture in McNoC.- 4. ASIP Exploration Target groups Clustering and Analyzing Embedded Software Research and Design.- Part II: System-level Exploration.- 5. Development Projects Data using Self-Organizing System Exploration.- 6. MPA: Parallelization Made maps.- A Study on Guiding Programmers’ Code Type of publication Easy.- Part III: Industrial Applications.- 7. MPSoC Navigation with a Graphical Code Recommender.- A Monograph Architecture Performance Analysis for Agile SDR Testing Frameworks for Mobile Embedded Systems Radio Applications.- 8. Application of the MOSART using MDA. Flow on the WiMAX (802.16e) PHY. Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Fields of interest Fields of interest Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence 2012. XXI, 131 p. 89 illus. (Analog Circuits and Signal Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering (incl. Robotics); Software Engineering Processing) Hardcover (CAD, CAE) and Design Target groups 99,95 € Target groups Research ISBN 978-1-4614-0112-4 Research Type of publication Type of publication Monograph Monograph Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days
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Q.(. Li, Li Creative Technologies, Florham Park, NJ, USA G. Gogu, Clermont University, IFMA, Clermont-Ferrand, France L. Wang, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; H. Garnier, CRAN, Nancy, France (Eds.) Speaker Authentication Structural Synthesis of Parallel Robots System Identification, This book focuses on use of voice as a biometric Environmental Modelling, and Part 4: Other Topologies with Two and Three Degrees of measure for personal authentication. In particular, Freedom Control System Design "Speaker Recognition" covers two approaches in speaker authentication: speaker verification (SV) This book represents the fourth part of a larger This book is dedicated to Prof. Peter Young on and verbal information verification (VIV). The SV work dedicated to the structural synthesis of his 70th birthday. Professor Young has been a approach attempts to verify a speaker’s identity parallel robots. Part 1 (Gogu 2008a) presented pioneer in systems and control, and over the past based on his/her voice characteristics while the VIV the methodology of structural synthesis and the 45 years he has influenced many developments approach validates a speaker’s identity through systematisation of structural solutions of simple in this field. This volume comprises a collection verification of the content of his/her utterance(s). and complex limbs with two to six degrees of of contributions by leading experts in system SV and VIV can be combined for new applications. connectivity systematically generated by the identification, time-series analysis, environmetric This is still a new research topic with significant structural synthesis approach. Part 2 (Gogu 2009a) modelling and control system design – modern potential applications. The book provides with a presented structural solutions of translational research in topics that reflect important areas broad overview of the recent advances in speaker parallel robotic manipulators with two and three of interest in Professor Young’s research career. authentication while giving enough attention to degrees of mobility. Part 3 (Gogu 2010a) focussed on Recent theoretical developments in and relevant advanced and useful algorithms and techniques. structural solutions of parallel robotic manipulators applications of these areas are explored treating It also provides a step by step introduction to with planar motion of the moving platform. This the various subjects broadly and in depth. The the current state of the speaker authentication book offers other topologies of parallel robotic authoritative and up-to-date research presented technology, from the fundamental concepts to manipulators with two and three degrees of here will be of interest to academic researcher in advanced algorithms. We will also present major freedom systematically generated by using the control and disciplines related to environmental design methodologies and share our experience in structural synthesis approach proposed in Part research, particularly those to with water systems. developing real and successful[..] 1. The originality of this work resides in the fact The tutorial style in which many of the contributions that it combines the new formulae for mobility are composed also makes the book suitable as a Features connectivity, redundancy and overconstraints, and source of study material for graduate students in This book focuses on use of voice as a biometric the evolutionary morphology in a unified[..] measure for personal authentication. In particular, those areas. "Speaker Recognition" covers two approaches in Features Features speaker authentication: speaker verification (SV) This book represents the fourth part of a larger System Identification, Environmetric Modelling, and and verbal information verification (VIV). The SV work dedicated to the structural synthesis of Control Systems Design is dedicated to Professor approach attempts to verify a speaker’s identity parallel robots. Part 1 (Gogu 2008a) presented Peter Young on the occasion of his seventieth based on his/her voice characteristics while the VIV the methodology of structural synthesis and the birthday. Professor Young has been a pioneer in approach validates a speaker’s identity through systematisation of structural solutions of simple systems and control, and over the past 45 years he verification of [..] and complex limbs with two to six degrees of has influenced many developments in this field.This connectivity systematically generated by the volume is comprised of a collection of contributions Contents structural synthesis approach. Part 2 (Gogu 2009a) by leading experts in system identification, [..] What is speaker authentication?.- Statistical presented structural [..] approaches to detection, identification and Contents verification.- Representations of speaker Contents Data-Based Mechanistic Modelling.- A Minimum characteristics for authentication purposes.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of abbreviations Distortion Nonlinear Filtering Approach to Robust endpoint detection and feature extraction.- and notations.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Terminology.- System Identification at Fast Sampling Rates.- Statistical models for dynamic pattern recognition.- 1.1 Links, joints and kinematic chains.- 1.2 Serial, How Accurate Can Instrumental Variable Models Fundamental approaches to speaker verification parallel and hybrid robots.- 1.2 Methodology Become? - Averaging Analysis of Adaptive and identification.-Discriminative training.- of structural synthesis.- 1.2.1 New formulae Algorithms Made Simple.- Identifiability and Relation among discriminative training objectives.- for mobility, connectivity, redundancy and Beyond.- Graphs for Dependence and Causality Fast discriminative training algorithms for real overconstraint of parallel robots.- 1.2.2 Evolutionary in Multivariable Time Series.- Optimal refined application.- Fast and detection-based decoding morphology approach.- 1.2.3 Types of parallel instrumental variable methods for identification of for a large group of users.- Verbal information robots with respect to motion coupling.- 2 Parallel LPV output-error and box Jenkins models.- An IV verification.-[..] mechanisms with cylindrical motion of the moving based Iterative Linear Regression Algorithm with platform.- 2.1 T1R1-type parallel mechanisms with Optimal Output Error Properties.- Box-Jenkins Fields of interest coupled cylindrical motion.- 2.1.1[..] Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Pattern Seasonal Models.- On Estimating[..] Recognition; Biomedical Engineering Fields of interest Fields of interest Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Control , Control; Monitoring / Environmental Analysis; Target groups Robotics, Mechatronics; Mechanics; Engineering Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Research Design; Mechanical Engineering Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Circuits and Type of publication Target groups Systems; Simulation and Modeling; Systems Theory, Monograph Research Control
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M. Arora, Freescale Semiconductor, Faridabad, India L. Chiariglione, CEDEO, Villar Dora, Italy (Ed.) O. Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
The Art of Hardware Architecture The MPEG Representation of Digital Type-2 Fuzzy Logic in Intelligent
Design Methods and Techniques for Digital Circuits Media Control Applications
This book highlights the complex issues, tasks and More and more information, audio and video but We describe in this book, hybrid intelligent systems skills that must be mastered by an IP designer, in also a range of other information type, is generated, based mainly on type-2 fuzzy logic for intelligent order to design an optimized and robust digital processed and used by machines today, even though control. Hybrid intelligent systems combine several circuit to solve a problem. The techniques and the end user may be a human. The result over the intelligent computing paradigms, including fuzzy methodologies described can serve as a bridge past 15 years has been a substantial increase in the logic, and bio-inspired optimization algorithms, between specifications that are known to the type of information and change in the way humans which can be used to produce powerful automatic designer and RTL code that is final outcome, generate, classify, store, search, access and consume control systems. The book is organized in three reducing significantly the time it takes to convert information. Conversion of information to digital main parts, which contain a group of chapters initial ideas and concepts into right-first-time silicon. form is a prerequisite for this enhanced machine around a similar subject. The first part consists of Coverage focuses on real problems rather than role, but must be done having in mind requirements chapters with the main theme of theory and design theoretical concepts, with an emphasis on design such as compactness, fidelity, interpretability etc. algorithms, which are basically chapters that propose techniques across various aspects of chip-design. This book presents new ways of dealing with digital new models and concepts, which can be the basis Features information and new types of digital information for achieving intelligent control with interval type-2 This book highlights the complex issues, tasks and underpinning the evolution of society and business. fuzzy logic. The second part of the book is comprised skills that must be mastered by an IP designer, in of chapters with the main theme of evolutionary Features order to design an optimized and robust digital optimization of type-2 fuzzy systems in intelligent More and more information, audio and video but circuit to solve a problem. The techniques and control with the aim of designing optimal type-2 also a range of other information type, is generated, methodologies described can serve as a bridge fuzzy controllers for complex control problems processed and used by machines today, even though between specifications that are known to the in diverse areas of application, including mobile the end user may be a human. The result over the designer and RTL code that is final outcome, robotics, aircraft dynamics systems and hardware[..] past 15 years has been a substantial increase in the reducing significantly the time it takes to convert type of information and change in the way humans Features initial ideas and concepts [..] generate, classify, store, search, access and consume We describe in this book, hybrid intelligent systems Contents information. Conversion of information to digital based mainly on type-2 fuzzy logic for intelligent The World of Metastability.- Clocks and Reset.- form [..] control. Hybrid intelligent systems combine several Handling Multiple Clocks.- Clock Dividers.- Low intelligent computing paradigms, including fuzzy Contents Power Design.- The Art of Pipelining.- Handling logic, and bio-inspired optimization algorithms, An Introduction to MPEG Digital Media.- MPEG Endianess.- Debouncing Techniques.- Design which can be used to produce powerful automatic Video Compression Basics.- MPEG Video Coding Guidelines for EMC Performance.- References. control systems. 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S. Gharavi, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; B. Heydari, Stevens K.-U. Schrogl, European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria; Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA S. Pagkratis, European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria; B. Environment Baranes, European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria (Eds.) Ultra High-Speed CMOS Circuits Yearbook on Space Policy D.G. Steyn, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Beyond 100 GHz 2009/2010 Canada; S. Trini Castelli, CNR, Torino, Italy (Eds.) The book covers the CMOS-based millimeter Space for Society wave circuits and devices and presents methods Air Pollution Modeling and its and design techniques to use CMOS technology The Yearbook on Space Policy is the reference Application XXI for circuits operating beyond 100 GHz. Coverage publication analysing space policy developments. includes a detailed description of both active and Each year it presents issues and trends in space Recent developments in air pollution modeling and passive devices, including modeling techniques policy and the space sector as a whole. Its scope is its application are explored here in contributions and performance optimization. Various mm-wave global and its perspective is European. The Yearbook by researchers at the forefront of their field. The circuit blocks are discussed, emphasizing their also links space policy with other policy areas. It book is focused on local, urban, regional and design distinctions from low-frequency design highlights specific events and issues, and provides intercontinental modeling; data assimilation and methodologies. This book also covers a device- useful insights, data and information on space air quality forecasting; model assessment and oriented circuit design technique that is essential for activities. The Yearbook on Space Policy is edited by evaluation; aerosol transformation; the relationship ultra high speed circuits and gives some examples of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) based in between air quality and human health and the device/circuit co-design that can be used for mm- Vienna, Austria. It combines in-house research and effects of climate change on air quality. The work wave technology. contributions of members of the European Space will provide useful reference material for students Policy Research and Academic Network (ESPRAN), Features and professors interested in air pollution modeling coordinated by ESPI. The Yearbook is designed The book covers the CMOS-based millimeter wave at the graduate level as well as researchers and for government decision-makers and agencies, circuits and devices and presents methods and professionals involved in developing and utilizing air industry professionals, as well as the service sectors, design techniques to use CMOS technology for pollution models. researchers and scientists and the interested public. circuits operating beyond 100 GHz.‐ Coverage Features includes a detailed description of both active and Features Recent developments in air pollution modeling and passive devices, including modeling techniques The Yearbook on Space Policy is the reference its application are explored here in contributions and performance optimization. Various mm-wave publication analysing space policy developments. by researchers at the forefront of their field. The circuit blocks are discussed, emphasizing their design Each year it presents issues and trends in space book is focused on local, urban, regional and distinctions from [..] policy and the space sector as a whole. Its scope is intercontinental modeling; data assimilation and global and its perspective is European. The Yearbook Contents air quality forecasting; model assessment and also links space policy with other policy areas. It Introduction.- mm-wave Device Modeling.- evaluation; aerosol transformation; the relationship highlights specific events and issues, and provides mm-wave Device Optimization.- mm-wave between air quality and human health and the effects useful insights, data and information on space CMOS Noise Analysis.- Unilateralization.- Terahertz of climate [..] activities. [..] CMOS Devices, Circuits and Systems.- Imaging Contents Applications. Contents Preface.- List of Participants.- Chapter 1. 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D.G. Steyn, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, L. Khemani, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India; M. M.A. Uqaili, Mehran Univ., Jamshoro, Pakistan; K. Harijan, Mehran Canada; S. Trini Castelli, CNR, Torino, Italy (Eds.) Srivastava, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India; S. Univ., Jamshoro, Pakistan (Eds.) Srivastava, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India (Eds.) Air Pollution Modeling and its Energy, Environment and Application XXI Chemistry of Phytopotentials: Sustainable Development Health, Energy and Environmental
Recent developments in air pollution modeling and Perspectives New information and strategies for managing its application are explored here in contributions the energy crisis from the perspective of growing by researchers at the forefront of their field. The Since the beginning of human civilization, plants economies are presented. Numerous case studies book is focused on local, urban, regional and have been our true companions. Plants contribute illustrate the particular challenges that developing intercontinental modeling; data assimilation and not only to our existence but also serve us through countries, many of which are faced with insufficient air quality forecasting; model assessment and discovery, design and the treatment of various resources, encounter. As a result, many unique evaluation; aerosol transformation; the relationship diseases where there is no satisfactory cure in strategies to the problems of energy management between air quality and human health and the modern medicine. This has focused Natural an conservation, environmental engineering, effects of climate change on air quality. The work Product Chemists to unravel plants therapeutic clean technologies, biological and chemical waste will provide useful reference material for students potential in the light of modern analytical and treatment and waste management have been and professors interested in air pollution modeling pharmacological understandings. Presence of developed. at the graduate level as well as researchers and multiple active phytochemicals in medicinal plants Features professionals involved in developing and utilizing air offers exciting opportunity for the development of New information and strategies for managing pollution models. novel therapeutics, providing scientific justification the energy crisis from the perspective of growing for their use in traditional medicines. Non-food Features economies are presented. Numerous case studies plants have been recognized as biofactories for the Recent developments in air pollution modeling and illustrate the particular challenges that developing production of eco-friendly value added materials its application are explored here in contributions countries, many of which are faced with insufficient including agricultural, food products, enzymes, by researchers at the forefront of their field. The resources, encounter. As a result, many unique nutraceuticals etc. They have also been widely book is focused on local, urban, regional and strategies to the problems of energy management explored for personal care, industrial products and intercontinental modeling; data assimilation and an conservation, environmental engineering, clean sources of energy generation. The proven efficacy air quality forecasting; model assessment and technologies, [..] of botanicals has been appreciated by the scientific evaluation; aerosol transformation; the relationship community and strengthened[..] between air quality and human health and the effects Contents Keynote Speech: The Advantages of Involving of climate [..] Features Women in Sustainable Development Planning Since the beginning of human civilization, plants Contents (Susan Buckingham)Keynote Speech: Hydrothermal have been our true companions. Plants contribute Preface.- List of Participants.- Chapter 1. Local and Process for Restaurant Garbage (Nie Yong not only to our existence but also serve us through Urban Scale Modelling.- Chapter 2. Regional and Yong-feng)Plenary Lecture: Tariff – Its discovery, design and the treatment of various Intercontinental Modeling.- Data Assimilation Importance for Sustainability of Power Sector diseases where there is no satisfactory cure in and Air Quality Forecasting.- Chapter 4. Model (Shah Zulfiqar Haider)Plenary Lecture: South modern medicine. This has focused Natural Product Assessment and Verification.- Chapter 5. Aerosols Asia and Management of Energy Security Chemists to unravel plants therapeutic potential in in the Atmosphere.- Chapter 6. Interactions between (Musarrat Jabeen)Modelling of Energy and the light of modern analytical and pharmacological Air Quality and Climate Change. Chapter 7. Air Environment for Sustainable Development (B. K. [..] Quality and Human Health. 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V. Lagutov, Azov Center for Watershed Cooperation, V. Lagutov, Azov Center for Watershed Cooperation, W.K.-M. Lau, Nasa Godard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, Novocherkassk, Russia (Ed.) Novocherkassk, Russia (Ed.) USA; D.E. Waliser, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA Environmental Security in Environmental Security in Watersheds: The Sea of Azov Watersheds: The Sea of Azov Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System
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In recent the Azov Sea, shared by Russia and Ukraine. Though the Azov Sea, shared by Russia and Ukraine. Though years the significance of major short-term climatic the region provides a variety of essential services and the region provides a variety of essential services and variability, and events such as the El Nino/Southern plays a strategic role in national and international plays a strategic role in national and international Oscillation in the Pacific, with its worldwide development plans, it has been excluded from most development plans, it has been excluded from most effect on rainfall patterns, has been all to clearly regional environmental discussions. At the same regional environmental discussions. At the same demonstrated. Understanding and predicting the time there is an alarming degradation rate of basin time there is an alarming degradation rate of basin intra-seasonal variability (ISV) of the ocean and freshwater ecosystems that has occurred due to freshwater ecosystems that has occurred due to atmosphere is crucial to improving long range overutilization of certain prioritized services (e.g. overutilization of certain prioritized services (e.g. environmental forecasts and the reliability of climate transportation). The collapse of neglected services transportation). The collapse of neglected services change projects through climate models. In the (e.g. fishery and freshwater supply) poses serious (e.g. fishery and freshwater supply) poses serious second edition of this classic book on the subject, threats to the national economies as well as the local threats to the national economies as well as the local the authors have updated the original chapters, population, and to mitigate these threats priority in population, and to mitigate these threats priority in where appropriate, and added a new chapter that water management should be given to[..] water management should be given to[..] includes short subjects representing substantial new development in ISV research since the publication of Features Features the[..] Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit Features to integrate societal benefits and environmental to integrate societal benefits and environmental This updated multi-author, comprehensive and needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of authoritative review of intra-seasonal variability natural resource use patterns. 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S.N. Singh, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India D. Higgitt, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Ed.) C.E. Mothersill, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; V. (Ed.) Korogodina, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia; C.B. Seymour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (Eds.) Perspectives on Environmental Microbial Degradation of Management and Technology in Xenobiotics Radiobiology and Environmental Asian River Basins Security
Our interest in the microbial biodegradation of Asian river basins are undergoing rapid xenobiotics has increased many folds in recent years This volume – like the NATO Advanced Research transformation. This volume considers the to find out sustainable ways for environmental Workshop on which it is based – addresses the implications of the environmental change- cleanup. Bioremediation and biotransformation fundamental science that contributes to our development nexus for water management, river processes harness the naturally occurring ability understanding of the potential risks from ecological health and hazard awareness. As Biswas and of microbes to degrade, transform or accumulate terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, Tortajada (2011) have recently commented, a wide range of organic pollutants. Major intentional release of radionuclides into water water management in Asia will likely change methodological breakthroughs in recent years or air. Both effects on human health (DNA and more in the next twenty years than in the last through detailed genomic, metagenomic, proteomic, systemic effects) and on ecosystems are detailed, 2000 years. Critical environmental trends include bioinformatic and other high-throughput analyses with particular focus on environmentally relevant decreasing flows of water and sediment due to of environmentally relevant microorganisms low-dose ranges. The state-of-the-art contributions dam construction and increased water extraction, have provided us unprecedented insights into key to the book are authored by leading experts; they land use change (especially forest removal), biodegradative pathways and the ability of organisms tackle the relevant questions from the perspectives encroachment and degradation of floodplain and to adapt to changing environmental conditions. The of radiation genetics, radiobiology, radioecology, wetland environments, increased water demand and degradation of a wide spectrum of organic pollutants radiation epidemiology and risk assessment. concerns about water security, urban expansion and and wastes discharged into the environment by associated pollution of rivers and contamination of anthropogenic activities is an emerging need today Features groundwater reserves. These challenges are being to promote sustainable development of our society This volume – like the NATO Advanced Research reframed by new approaches to water management with low environmental impact. Microbial processes Workshop on which it is based – addresses the which represent a transition from engineering- play a major role in the removal of recalcitrant fundamental science that contributes to our dominated approaches towards integrated water compounds taking advantage of the[..] understanding of the potential risks from ecological management, from technology transfer to adaptive terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, Features technologies. The volume comprises an[..] intentional release of radionuclides into water Our interest in the microbial biodegradation of or air. Both effects on human health (DNA and Features xenobiotics has increased many folds in recent years systemic effects) and on ecosystems are detailed, None to find out sustainable ways for environmental with particular focus on [..] cleanup. Bioremediation and biotransformation Contents processes harness the naturally occurring ability of Contents 1. Environmental Management and Technology Hypermutability Associated With Double-Strand microbes to degrade, transform or accumulate a wide in Asian River Basins.- 2. Environmental Science range of organic pollutants. Major methodological Break Repair; D.A. Gordenin.- A Test Of Kimura’s and Management in a Changing World.- 3. River Mutation-Rate Conjecture; J.W. Drake.- Micro- breakthroughs in recent years through detailed Hardware and Software: Perspectives on National genomic, [..] Algae As A Model System For Studying Of Genotype Interest and Water Governance in the Mekong River Resistance To Oxidative Stress And Adaptive Basin.- 4. Evolutionary Technologies in Knowledge- Contents Response; S.G. Chankova, N. Yurina.- Flavonoid Based Management of Water Resources: Perspectives Biodegradation of Aromatic Pollutants by Biosynthesis Genes In Wheat And Wheat-Alien from South Asian Case Studies.- 5. 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C.E. Mothersill, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; V. C. Trasar-Cepeda, Department of Soil Biochemistry, Santiago de C.U. Becker, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Korogodina, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia; Compostela, Spain; T. Hernández, CEBAS-CSIC, Espinardo, Spain; PA, USA C.B. Seymour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (Eds.) C. García, CEBAS-CSIC, Espinardo, Spain; C. Rad, University of Burgos, Spain; S. González-Carcedo, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain (Eds.) Sustainability Ethics and Radiobiology and Environmental Sustainability Research Security Soil Enzymology in the Recycling of Organic Wastes and Environmental The book identifies the specific ethical aspects This volume – like the NATO Advanced Research Restoration of sustainability and develops ethical tools to Workshop on which it is based – addresses the analyze them. It also provides a methodological fundamental science that contributes to our framework to integrate ethical and scientific understanding of the potential risks from ecological Soil enzymes play a fundamental role in many soil analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, processes such as the mineralization of organic notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and intentional release of radionuclides into water matter, the synthesis of humic substances, the transdisciplinary sustainability research. With this, or air. Both effects on human health (DNA and degradation of xenobiotics or the mechanisms the book aims to strengthen the overall ability of systemic effects) and on ecosystems are detailed, involved in the biocontrol of plant pathogens. Their academics to contribute to the analysis and solution with particular focus on environmentally relevant direct link with soil microorganisms gives them a key of sustainability issues in an inclusive and integrated low-dose ranges. The state-of-the-art contributions role as biomonitors of the evolution of soil quality way. to the book are authored by leading experts; they or in the monitoring of the application of organic tackle the relevant questions from the perspectives amendments to degraded soils. As a consequence Features of radiation genetics, radiobiology, radioecology, of the importance of soil enzymes on soil processes, This philosophical contribution to the discussion radiation epidemiology and risk assessment. there is an increasing interest in their study, as well of sustainability develops a distinct approach to as in the application of molecular techniques as sustainability ethics and suggests a new avenue Features diagnostic tools. for sustainability research. Referring to the This volume – like the NATO Advanced Research inherent ethical meaning of the modern concept Workshop on which it is based – addresses the Features of sustainability, the author argues that without an fundamental science that contributes to our Soil enzymes play a fundamental role in many soil adequate recognition and analysis of this ethical understanding of the potential risks from ecological processes such as the mineralization of organic meaning, the concept of sustainability is [..] terrorism, i.e. dirty bombs, atomic explosions, matter, the synthesis of humic substances, the intentional release of radionuclides into water degradation of xenobiotics or the mechanisms Contents or air. Both effects on human health (DNA and involved in the biocontrol of plant pathogens. Their 1. Introduction.- PART I: Sustainability and Ethics.- systemic effects) and on ecosystems are detailed, direct link with soil microorganisms gives them a key 2. The Meaning of Sustainability.- 3. The Inherent with particular focus on [..] role as biomonitors of the evolution of soil quality Ethical Dimension of Sustainability – Toward or in the monitoring of the application of organic a Relational Ethical Perspective.- 4. Limits and Contents amendments [..] Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Hypermutability Associated With Double-Strand Current Ethics – Some Arguments For the Need Break Repair; D.A. Gordenin.- A Test Of Kimura’s Contents For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics.- 5. The Mutation-Rate Conjecture; J.W. Drake.- Micro- General Presentation.- Enzymes as indicators of Challenges of Sustainability Ethics.- PART II: Meta- Algae As A Model System For Studying Of Genotype environmental soil quality.- Applied enzymology structures and Sustainability.- 6. Sustainability, Resistance To Oxidative Stress And Adaptive for monitoring of soil contamination and soil Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action.- 7. Response; S.G. 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L. Bengtsson, International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland; S. Koumoutsaris, International Space Science General Science Geography Institute, Bern, Switzerland; R.-M. Bonnet, International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland; E.-A. Herland, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy; P. Huybrechts, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium; O.M. Johannessen, Nansen Centre, Bergen, Norway; G. Milne, R.B. McKenzie, University of California, Paul Merage School of G. Gartner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; F. Ortag, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; J. Oerlemans, Utrecht Business, Irvine, USA Vienna University of Technology, Austria (Eds.) University, The Netherlands; A. Ohmura, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; G. Ramstein, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; HEAVY! Advances in Location-Based P. Woodworth, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, Services UK (Eds.) The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free—And the Home of the Fat 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services, The Earth's Cryosphere and Sea America’s emerging “fat war” threatens to pit a Vienna 2011 shrinking population of trim Americans against an Level Change This book gives a general picture of research-driven expanding population of heavy Americans in raging activities related to location and map-based services. policy debates over “fat taxes” and “fat bans.” These The interdisciplinary character of the topic leads “fat policies” would be designed to constrain what This book gives a comprehensive overview of our to a variety of contributions with backgrounds people eat and drink – and theoretically crimp the present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its from academia to business and from computer growth in Americans’ waistlines and in the country’s changes and their consequences for mean sea level science to geodesy. While cartography is aiming healthcare costs.Richard McKenzie’s HEAVY! The changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there at efficient communication of spatial information, Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25 the development and availability of technologies —And the Home of the Fat offers new insight into cm. Some 8-10 cm of this is due to net losses from like mobile networking, mobile devices or short- the economic causes and consequences of America's glaciers, the remainder being due to mass losses from range sensors lead to interesting new possibilities dramatic weight gain over the past half century. land ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The of achieving this aim. By trying to make use of the It also uncovers the follies of seeking to remedy mean sea level rise is slowly accelerating; at present available technologies, a variety of related disciplines the country’s weight problems with government it is some 3 mm/year. Recent space observations looks specifically at user-centered and context-aware intrusions into people’s excess eating, arguing that made by the GRACE satellite combined with ocean system development, especially in wayfinding and controlling people’s eating habits is fundamentally temperature and volume measurements have navigation systems. enabled the separate contributions to sea level rise different from controlling people’s smoking habits. from melting ice and from thermal expansion to be McKenzie controversially links America’s weight Features better estimated. The estimation of mean sea level gain to a variety of causes: the growth in world trade This book gives a general picture of research-driven change is complicated by changes in land level due freedom, the downfall of communism, the spread activities related to location and map-based services. to tectonic effects and to ongoing changes following of[..] The interdisciplinary character of the topic leads the latest major glaciation. The book gives an up-to- to a variety of contributions with backgrounds Features date survey of our present knowledge of this crucial from academia to business and from computer In HEAVY! Professor McKenzie addresses ‘the subject. science to geodesy. 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T. Csapó, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, Hungary; A. J. Jokar Arsanjani, University of Vienna, Austria Balogh, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, Hungary (Eds.) Law Dynamic land use/cover change Development of the Settlement modelling R. Bin, University of Ferrara, Italy; S. Lorenzon, University of Network in the Central European Ferrara, Italy; N. Lucchi, University of Ferrara, Italy (Eds.) Countries Geosimulation and multiagent-based modelling The thesis is an original and novel contribution to Past, Present, and Future Biotech Innovations and land use/land cover change analysis using methods Fundamental Rights This volume intends to summarize the most of geosimulation and agent-based modeling. The important changes in the Central European author implements several traditional methodologies countries and their settlement network emphasizing of land use change by means of remote sensing Biotechnology is a recognized research area that the last 20 years since the collapse of the Iron and GIS techniques. An Agent-Based Model was has increasingly advanced into new technologies Curtain. developed in order to simulate land use change and modern practices raising several legal, ethical in the Tehran metropolitan area, comparing and regulatory issues. The revolutionary speed of Features the outcomes of each particular methodology. biotech innovations has had a significant impact This volume intends to summarize the most All methods are compared, and advantages and on the protection of the rights of the individual. important changes in the Central European disadvantages discussed. Fundamental rights provide a framework within countries and their settlement network emphasizing which the justification of limitations and restrictions the last 20 years since the collapse of the Iron Features to biotechnology innovations and research results Curtain. The thesis is an original and novel contribution to have to be assessed. The legal regulation of scientific land use/land cover change analysis using methods research and scientific investigations impact more Contents of geosimulation and agent-based modeling. The and more directly on the freedom of research Development of the Settlement Network in author implements several traditional methodologies and therapies as well as on the broad diffusion the Central European Countries.- Sociology of land use change by means of remote sensing of knowledge. Closely related is also the debated of Settlements, Urban Regeneration.- Urban and GIS techniques. An Agent-Based Model was question of the technological manipulation of life Geography, Urbanization. developed in order to simulate land use change and the boundary of scientific knowledge with in the Tehran metropolitan area, comparing the regard to the topical question of genetic invention Fields of interest outcomes of each particular [..] patents and their side effects on access to scientific Landscape, Regional and Urban Planning; Statistics information and health care opportunities.Drawing Contents for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, on expertise from different disciplines, the volume[..] Public Policy, and Law; Human Geography General Introduction.- Literature Review.- Study Area Description.- Data Preparation and Features Target groups Processing.- Implementation of Traditional Biotechnology is a recognized research area that Research Techniques.- Designing and Implementing Multi has increasingly advanced into new technologies Agent Geosimulation.- Analysis of Results.- and modern practices raising several legal, ethical Type of publication Conclusions and Recommendations. and regulatory issues. The revolutionary speed of Proceedings biotech innovations has had a significant impact Fields of interest on the protection of the rights of the individual. Remote Sensing / Photogrammetry; Landscape, Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Fundamental rights provide a framework within Regional and Urban Planning; Geographical which the justification of limitations and restrictions Information Systems / Cartography 2012. IX, 314 p. 93 illus., 28 in color. Hardcover [..] Target groups Fields of interest 189,95 € Research ISBN 978-3-642-20313-8 Constitutional Law; Human Genetics; Biochemistry Type of publication Target groups Monograph Research
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D. Bünger, Seevetal, Germany N.S. van der Meulen, GOVCERT, The Hague, The Netherlands C. Quinto, Zürich, Switzerland
Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Financial Identity Theft Insurance Systems in Times of
Environmental Information Context, Challenges and Countermeasures Climate Change Disclosure The existence of financial identity theft in the United Insurance of Buildings Against Natural Hazards Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant States, and its (gradual) spread to other areas of Natural disasters such as large-scale flooding are Release Inventories the world, increases the need to understand how on the increase. Climate change directly affects our identity theft occurs and how perpetrators of the basis of existence. This includes residential buildings, It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release crime manage to take advantage of developments and commercial and industrial properties. The Inventory’s data which creates an incentive for firms within contemporary society. This book aims to author highlights the requirements that will have to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public provide such an understanding through an in-depth to be met by a protection system for buildings in access to environmental information constitutes a comparative analysis which illustrates how states, the future. Insurance against natural hazards lies at core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. financial service providers, consumers, and others the heart of such a system. The insurance systems Here, in essence, two facets arise. First, with regard facilitate the occurrence of financial identity theft in of Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland and the to the collection, it is disputed whether such the United States and the Netherlands. information, which may comprise confidential USA are presented. The author explains what type of commercial and industrial information in the Features insurance system is best suited to meet the challenge EU as well as trade secrets in the US, can be When identity theft first emerged as a problem of of climate change. The starting point of the legal protected under fundamental and constitutional public policy in the United States, during the last section is statutory insurance with a monopoly. The property rights respectively. Second, in the context decade of the twentieth century, the rest of the world question of whether such insurance is compatible of dissemination and utilisation, it is arguable was still fast asleep. This changed several years later with Swiss and EU law is examined. Keywords in this whether the information indeed impacts polluters as other countries awakened to similar problems respect are economic freedom, competition, services and produces an outcome that secures a certain and a sense of potential urgency surrounding the of general interest and universal service. level of environmental protection. The author topic of identity theft began to spread. 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The insurance systems of [..] to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Contents access to environmental information constitutes a Property Law; Legal Aspects of Computing Challenge: Climate Change as the Starting Situation.- core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Global Climate Change.- Climate Change in Here, in essence, two facets arise. 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The book contains 24 contributions from European Sports marketing is not only a global phenomenon, law scholars and practitioners analysing the Adaption of Microbial Life to but also a major industry in its own right. This book constitutional basis of the European Union and Environmental Extremes breaks new ground in that it combines the theory the normative orientation of the Common Foreign and the practice of sports marketing agreements, and Security Policy (CFSP) as well as the central Novel Research Results and Application which are at the heart of the commercialisation economic and monetary provisions (TFEU) after the and marketing of sport. A particular feature of this Reform Treaty of Lisbon. Presenting the findings Once considered exceptional rarities, extremophiles book is the wide-ranging collection of precedents of a European research team, which is composed of have become attractive objects for basic and of sports marketing agreements, including, inter authors from eight Member States, the publication applied research ranging from nanotechnology to alia, sponsorship, merchandising, TV rights and underlines the aspiration of the editors to thoroughly biodiversity to the origins of life and even to the new media, sports image rights and endorsements, analyse the constitutional law of the European Union search for extraterrestrial life. Several novel aspects event management and corporate hospitality, that currently in force. of extremophiles are covered in this book; the focus are included and are explained and commented on is firstly on unusual and less explored ecosystems in the text of the book. The book also covers the Features such as marine hypersaline deeps, extreme cold, EU aspects, which are particularly important in The book contains 24 contributions from European desert sands, and man-made clean rooms for this context, especially collective selling, of Sports law scholars and practitioners analysing the spacecraft assembly. Secondly, the increasingly TV rights and the drafting of the corresponding constitutional basis of the European Union and complex field of applications from extremophile agreements; as well as the fiscal aspects of sports the normative orientation of the Common Foreign research is treated and examples such as novel marketing agreements in general and sports image and Security Policy (CFSP) as well as the central psychrophilic enzymes, compounds from halophiles, rights agreements in particular, which need to be economic and monetary provisions (TFEU) after the and detection strategies for potential extraterrestrial taken into account in order to reduce the tax burden Reform Treaty of Lisbon. Presenting the findings life forms are presented. on the[..] of a European research team, which is composed of authors from eight Member [..] Features Features Once considered exceptional rarities, extremophiles With a Foreword by Prof. Paul Anderson, Associate Contents have become attractive objects for basic and Director, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette From the contents: Constitutional Basic.- The applied research ranging from nanotechnology to University Law School, Milwaukee, USA Sports Economic and Monetary Constitution of the biodiversity to the origins of life and even to the marketing is not only a global phenomenon, but also Union.- The Common Foreign and Security search for extraterrestrial life. Several novel aspects a major industry in its own right. This book breaks Policy. of extremophiles are covered in this book; the focus new ground in that it combines the theory and the is firstly on unusual and less explored ecosystems practice of sports marketing agreements, which are Fields of interest such as marine hypersaline deeps, extreme cold, [..] at the heart of the [..] Public International Law; Constitutional Law Contents Fields of interest Target groups Physico-chemical boundaries of life (Helga Stan- International Sports Law; Marketing Research Lotter).- Microbial diversity in Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (Francesca Mapelli, Sara Borin, Target groups Type of publication Daniele Daffonchio).- Microbial speciation in Research Contributed volume the geothermal ecosystem (Gudmundur Oli Hreggvidsson, Solveig K. Petursdottir, Snaedis H. Type of publication Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Björnsdottir, Olafur H. Fridjonsson).- Bacterial Monograph adaptation to hot and dry deserts (Thierry Heulin, Gilles De Luca, Mohamed Barakat, Arjan de Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days 2012. XIX, 582 p. Hardcover Groot, Laurence Blanchard, Philippe Ortet, Wafa Achouak).- Extremophiles in Antarctica; life at low 99,95 € temperatures (David A. Pearce).- Anhydrobiotic 2012. XX, 516 p. 4 illus. (ASSER International Sports Law ISBN 978-3-642-19506-8 rock-inhabiting[..] Series) Hardcover Fields of interest 169,95 € Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Biodiversity ISBN 978-90-6704-792-0 Target groups Research
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E. Lichtfouse, French National Institute for Agricultural Research A.V. Altenbach, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, N. Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain; (INRA), Dijon, France (Ed.) Germany; J.M. Bernhard, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution, M. Hackenberg, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; A.M. MA, USA; J. Seckbach, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Aransay, CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain (Eds.) (Eds.) Agroecology and Strategies for Climate Change Bioinformatics for High Throughput Anoxia Sequencing Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field Strategies aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable Next generation sequencing is revolutionizing way for our children. This discipline addresses ANOXIA defines the lack of free molecular oxygen molecular biology. Owing to this new technology it current issues such as climate change, increasing in an environment. In the presence of organic is now possible to carry out a panoply of experiments food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water matter, anaerobic prokaryotes produce compounds at an unprecedented low cost and high speed. These pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and such as free radicals, hydrogen sulfide, or methane go from sequencing whole genomes, transcriptomes biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed that are typically toxic to aerobes. The concomitance and small non-coding RNAs to description of based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil of suppressed respiration and presence of toxic methylated regions, identification protein – DNA science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, substances suggests these habitats are inhospitable interaction sites and detection of structural variation. ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. to Eukaryota. Ecologists sometimes term such The generation of gigabases of sequence information As actual society issues are now intertwined, environments 'Death Zones'. This book presents, for each of this huge bandwidth of applications sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build however, a collection of remarkable adaptations in just a few days makes the development of a safer world. This book series analyzes current to anoxia, observed in Eukaryotes such as protists, bioinformatics applications for next generation agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, animals, plants and fungi. Case studies provide sequencing data analysis as urgent as challenging. consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, evidence for controlled beneficial use of anoxia professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build by, for example, modification of free radicals, Features safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future use of alternative electron donors for anaerobic The ultimate goal of bioinformatics is to extract generations. metabolic pathways, and employment of anaerobic biological knowledge out of the large amount of symbionts. The complex, interwoven existence of information generated by the scientific community. Features oxic and anoxic conditions in space and time is also The chapters compiled in this volume will allow both Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field highlighted as is the idea that eukaryotic inhabitation biologists and computer scientists to understand aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable of anoxic habitats was established early in Earth the significance and potential of this discipline in way for humans and their children. Sustainable history. the analysis of high throughput sequencing data. An agriculture is a discipline that addresses current essential reference book, not only for serving as [..] issues such as climate change, increasing food and Features fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation ANOXIA defines the lack of free molecular oxygen Contents obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, in an environment. In the presence of organic Preface.- Introduction.- Overview of Sequencing pest control, and biodiversity depletion. Novel, [..] matter, the metabolism of anaerobic prokaryotes Technology Platforms.- Applications of High soon produces compounds such as free radicals, Throughput Sequencing.- Computational Contents hydrogen sulfide, or methane that are typically Infrastructure and Basic Data Analysis for High- 1. Agroecology, A Tool for the Realization of toxic to aerobes. The concomitance of suppressed Throughput Sequencing.- Base-Calling for the Right to Food, Dr. Olivier de Schutter.- 2. respiration and the presence of toxic substances Bioinformaticians.- De Novo Short Read Assembly.- Agroecology and the food system, Dr. Alexander suggests that these habitats are inhospitable to Short Read Mapping.- DNA-Protein Interaction Wezel.- 3. Development of a Sustainably- eukaryotes. Ecological [..] Analysis (ChIP-Seq).- Genome-wide Methylation Competitive Agriculture, Dr. Gordon Purvis.- 4. Maps.- Differential Expression for RNA Sequencing Emissions of ammonia, nitrous oxide and methane Contents (RNA-seq) Data: Mapping, Summarization, during the management of solid manures, Dr. Jim Introduction.- Stepping into the book of Eukaryotes Statistical Analysis and Experimental Design.- Webb.- 5. Communication in the rhizosphere, and Anoxia.- List of Authors and their Addresses.- MicroRNA Expression Profiling and Discovery.- a target for pest management, Dr. Juan Antonio List of External Reviewers and Referees.- Dissecting Splicing-Regulatory Network by[..] López Ráez.- 6. A novel land-energy use indicator Acknowledgment to authors, reviewers and any for energy crops, Dr. Vito Sardo.- 7. Conventional, special people who assisted.- PART I: GENERAL Fields of interest organic and conservation agriculture: production INTRODUCTION.- Anaerobic eukaryotes.- Bioinformatics; Human Genetics; Biomedicine and environmental impact,[..] Biogeochemical reactions in marine sediments (general) underlying anoxic water bodies.- Diversity of Target groups Fields of interest anaerobic prokaryotes and eukaryotes – breaking Research Agriculture long-established dogmas.- PART II: FUNCTIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY.- The biochemical adaptations of Target groups Type of publication mitochondrion-related organelles of parasitic and Contributed volume Graduate free-living microbial eukaryotes to[..]
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E.D. Zanders, BioVillage Ltd., Cambridge, UK (Ed.) T. Pukkala, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland; K. von C.G. Williams, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Gadow, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany (Eds.) Durham, NC, USA Chemical Genomics and Proteomics Continuous Cover Forestry Evolutionary Dynamics of Forests Reviews and Protocols under Climate Change Chemical genomics technology has been steadily Although the majority of the world’s forest improving, delivering new biological probes and ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized Focusing on the example of the Lost Pines forest drugs, and the explicit use of the term ‘chemical multi-species stands, forest management practice of Texas, this book contextualises the present- proteomics’ has increased with it, as proteins have and theory has focused on the development of day conservation of the Lost Pines within its always been at the heart of this technology. 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Societal expectations are changing, Focusing on the example of the Lost Pines forest of improving, delivering new biological probes and however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, Texas, this book contextualises the present-day drugs, and the explicit use of the term ‘chemical selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry conservation of the Lost Pines within its wealth proteomics’ has increased with it, as proteins have (CCF), are [..] of historical and geological records. This in always been at the heart of this technology. In turn presents a realistic example for examining Chemical Genomics and Proteomics: Reviews and Contents evolutionary dynamics models and how they Protocols, experts in the field present updated 1 Historical Emergence and Current Application can guide management of temperate pine forests reviews of the chemistry of small molecules and their of CCF.- 2 Forest Structure and Diversity.- 3 under the uncertainty of future climate change. 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Expert Knowledge and Its An Introduction to Social Forestry Application in Landscape Ecology Invasive Alien Arthropod Predators Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, and Parasitoids: An Ecological Community Forestry, have been practiced almost Typically, landscape ecologists use empirical as long as people have used forests. During this Approach observations to conduct research and devise time, forests have provided people with countless goods and services, including wood, medicine, solutions for applied problems in conservation Understanding invasion biology, and the food, clean water and recreation. In making use of and management. In some instances, they rely on dynamics of biological control practices, requires forest resources, people throughout history have advice and input of experienced professionals in a multidisciplinary approach, embracing and frequently organized themselves and established both developing and applying knowledge. Given integrating all the research tools at our disposal, both formal and informal rules.However, just as the the wealth of expert knowledge and the risks of its particularly modern molecular and modelling discipline of Forestry had previously limited and informal and implicit applications in landscape techniques. This book provides a comprehensive concentrated the function of forests to the timber ecology, it is necessary to formally recognize and and current overview of invasive alien arthropod it provides, the popular understanding of Social characterize expert knowledge and bring rigor to predators and parasitoids through 20 chapters, Forestry has restricted it to a Forestry sub-topic methods for its applications. In this context, the contributed by 69 internationally renowned that deals with welfare, without any connection broad goal of this book is to introduce the concept of scientists (previously published as peer-reviewed to income-generation, and is practiced only in expert knowledge and examine its role in landscape papers in BioControl – August 2011), ranging from developing countries.This volume introduces the ecological applications. We plan to do so in three broad reviews of key topics on invasive alien species concepts of Social Forestry to the student, gives steps: First we introduce the topic to landscape (IAS) to taxon-specific chapters. The context of examples of its practice around the world and ecologists, explore salient characteristics of experts invasion biology is given through nine chapters attempts to anticipate developments in its future. 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During this time, forests have provided people with countless observations to conduct research and devise Features goods and services, including wood, medicine, food, solutions for applied problems in conservation Invasive alien species (IAS) coupled with climate clean water and recreation. In making use of forest and management. In some instances, they rely on change have been referred to as a "deadly duo". Until resources, people throughout history have frequently advice and input of experienced professionals in recently research on invasion biology has centred organized themselves and established both formal both developing and applying knowledge. Given mainly on alien plants and vertebrates, despite the and [..] the wealth of expert knowledge and the risks of its numerical dominance of invasive alien arthropods. informal and implicit applications in landscape Contents Arthropods are the largest group of IAS worldwide. ecology, it is necessary to [..] 1. 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This book provides a adaptations; sexual reproduction in high altitudes; a wide range of interests and expertise including comprehensive account of interaction of host and its the physiology of photosynthesis, antioxidants, myogenic and stem cell isolation, investigation of pathogens, induced host resistance, development of metabolites, carbon and nitrogen; and the influences models of exercise and disuse, viral vector delivery biological control agents for practical applications, of microclimate (temperatures at the plant level, heat systems, calcium imaging, cell profiling, as well as the underlying mechanism and signal transduction. tolerance), UV light, weather and ozone. Further protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions. The book is useful to all those working in academia information on life processes in alpine[..] Written in the highly successful Methods in or industry related to crop protection. 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D.P. Abrol, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences J.L. Hartley, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA (Ed.) L. Pla, Francisco de Miranda National Experimental University &Technology, Jammu, India (UNEFM), Coro, Venezuela; F. Casanoves, Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Protein Expression in Mammalian Rica; J. Di Rienzo, The National University of Cordoba, Argentina Pollination Biology Cells Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Production Quantifying Functional Biodiversity Methods and Protocols This book has a wider approach not strictly focused Through all of the recent progress provided by on crop production compared to other books This book synthesizes current methods used to high throughput DNA sequencing technologies, that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a quantify functional diversity, providing step-by- it has become clearer and clearer that the study generalist approach to pollination biology. It also step examples for defining functional groups and of proteins and protein organelles will be the key highlights relationships between introduced and wild estimating functional indices. The authors show to unlocking our ability to manipulate cells and pollinators and consequences of such introductions how to compare communities, and how to analyze intervene in human disease. In Protein Expression on communities of wild pollinating insects. The changes of diversity along environmental gradients, in Mammalian Cells: Methods and Protocols, expert chapters on biochemical basis of plant-pollination using real-life examples throughout. One section of researchers in the field present a compendium interaction, pollination energetics, climate change the book demonstrates the selection of traits, and the of vital techniques to further our knowledge of and pollinators and pollinators as bioindicators of standardization and characterization of ecosystem mammalian protein expression. Written in the ecosystem functioning provide a base for future data. Another section presents methods used to highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ insights into pollination biology. The role of quantify functional diversity, shows how to relate series format, chapters include introductions to their honeybees and wild bees on crop pollination, value functional diversity with environmental variables respective topics, lists of the necessary materials of bee pollination, planned honeybee pollination, and how to connect these to ecosystem services. and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible non-bee pollinators, safety of pollinators, pollination The concluding section introduces FDiversity, a free laboratory protocols, and tips for troubleshooting in cages, pollination for hybrid seed production, program developed by the authors. The reader is and avoiding known pitfalls. 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The abundance of functional traits in a given community high throughput DNA sequencing technologies, book is an unique blend of pure and applied science or ecosystem – is increasingly accepted as a synthetic it has become clearer and clearer that the study placed in the broader human social context. It ecological concept that sheds light on ecosystem of proteins and protein organelles will be the key deals with basic and applied aspects of pollination functioning. Standard tools for comparing FD across to unlocking our ability to manipulate cells and biology. The chapters on pollination energetics, different ecosystems and for different ecosystem intervene in human disease. In Protein Expression climate change, pollinator decline, biochemical processes would be invaluable for supporting a in Mammalian Cells: Methods and Protocols, expert basis of plant-pollination interaction, pollinators as better, more general understanding of the functional researchers in the field present a compendium of bioindicators [..] [..] vital [..] Contents Contents Contents 1. Introduction.- 2. Historical perspective.- 3. 1. Introduction.- 1.1 Functional Diversity Approach Why Proteins in Mammalian Cells?.- Large Scale Pollination-basic concepts.- 4. Applied pollination- To Quantify the Biodiversity.- 1.2 Functional Transfection of Mammalian Cells.- Selection of High present scenario.- 5. Honeybees and crop Diversity Assessment.- 1.3 Classification of Expressing Mammalian Cells by Surface Display pollination.- 6. Wild bees and crop pollination.- Ecosystem Services.- 1.4 Selection of Traits of Reporters.- Expression of a Secreted Protein in 7. Value of bee pollination.- 8. 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S.K. Gupta, Division of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Sher-e-Kashmir C.L. Argue, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA B. Slippers, University of Pretoria, South Africa; P. de Groot, University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu, India Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada; M.J. (Ed.) Wingfield, University of Pretoria, South Africa (Eds.) The Pollination Biology of North Technological Innovations in Major American Orchids: Volume 1 The Sirex Woodwasp and its Fungal World Oil Crops, Volume 1 North of Florida and Mexico Symbiont:
Breeding Recent studies have revealed remarkable complexity Research and Management of a Worldwide Invasive Pest and diversity in orchid-pollinator relationships. Major world oil crops and their products are among These studies comprise a vast literature currently The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most the most valuable commodity in today's world trade. scattered in numerous, often obscure, journals important invasive alien insect pest of Pinus Over the past couple of decades, oilseed production and books. The Pollination Biology of North plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. It now also has increased to become the most important world American Orchids brings together, for the first time, threatens pines in North America. This book brings sources of vegetable oils, in response to the rising a comprehensive treatment of this information together the worldwide knowledge of researchers world population and living standard. Recent for all native and introduced North American from Universities and Government institutions, technological advances made in breeding major orchids found north of Mexico and Florida. as well as forest industry practitioners that have world oil crops have led to higher production and It provides detailed information on genetic worked on the pest. Importantly, it is the first improved product quality.This comprehensive compatibility, breeding systems, pollinators, comprehensive treatment of the subject since S. volume encompasses recent innovations and pollination mechanisms, fruiting success, and noctilio was discovered outside its native range practice in the production and use of different oil limiting factors for each species. Distribution, around 1900. The book covers all aspects of the crops, including Brassica, Sunflower, Safflower, habitat, and floral morphology are also summarized. biology and management of S. noctilio, including Cottonseed, Castor, Olive, Coconut, Oilpalm, In addition, detailed line drawings emphasize orchid aspects of the insects’ taxonomy, general life history, Sesame, Groundnut, and Soybean. The contributors reproductive organs and their adaptation to known host-plant relationships, population dynamics, are leading specialists from different countries pollinators. This, the first of two volumes, furnishes chemical ecology and symbiosis with the fungus of the world. Much of the literature available on a brief introduction to the general morphology of the Amylostereum areolatum. The book also contains a these crops is not up-to-date; hence this volume orchid flower and the terminology used to describe comprehensive synthesis of the history and current is a ready reference for researchers, breeders, orchid breeding systems and reproductive strategies. status of the pest and worldwide efforts to control biotechnologists, industrialists, and nutritionists.Dr. It treats the lady’s-slippers[..] it, including biological control, silviculture and Surinder Kumpar Gupta, born in 1959, is currently quarantine. working as Professor/Chief[..] Features Recent studies have revealed remarkable complexity Features Features and diversity in orchid-pollinator relationships. The Sirex woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, is the most Major world oil crops and their products are among These studies comprise a vast literature currently important invasive alien insect pest in Pinus the most valuable commodity in today's world trade. scattered in numerous, often obscure, journals plantations across the Southern Hemisphere, and it Over the past couple of decades, oilseed production and books. The Pollination Biology of North now threatens pines in North America. Sirex noctilio has increased to become the most important world American Orchids brings together, for the first time, is native to Eurasia, where it causes little damage sources of vegetable oils, in response to the rising a comprehensive treatment of this information for and is better known for its fascinating biology, world population and living standard. Recent all native and introduced North American orchids including an obligate mutualism with the fungus technological advances made in breeding major found [..] Amylostereum areolatum. The wasp [..] world oil crops have led to higher production and improved [..] Contents Contents Introduction.- Cypripedium L. (the lady’s- Preface.- Dedication.- 1. Sirex systematics; problems Contents slippers), Introduction.- Section Acaulia.- Section and solutions.- 2. Life history and biology of Preface.- Production and Trade of Major World Oil Obtusipetala.- Section Cypripedium.- Sections Sirex noctilio.- 3. Susceptibility and response Crops.- Breeding Major Oil Crops: Present Status Arietinum and Enantiopetalum.- Sections Irapeana of pines to Sirex noctilio.- 4. The population and Future Research Needs.- Brassicas.- Sunflower.- and Bifolia.- Platanthera L., Introduction.- dynamics of Sirex noctilio F.: the influence of Sesame.- Safflower.- Oil Palm.- Coconuts.- Cotton.- Limnorchis Group.- Platanthera Group.- Lacera diapause, spatial aggregation and flight potential Castor.- Olive.- Soybean.- Groundnut. Group.- Blephariglottis Group.- Platantheras of on woodwasp outbreaks and spread.- 5. The unknown alignment.- Other Orchideae.- Glossary woodwasp Sirex noctilio and its associated fungus Fields of interest Amylostereum areolatum in Europe.- 6. The genetics Plant Breeding / Biotechnology; Plant Sciences; Plant Fields of interest of Amylostereum species associated with Siricids.- Genetics and Genomics Plant Sciences; Plant Anatomy / Development; Plant 7. 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Beside their structural current status and trends in the development and Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension diversity, interest in these compounds is due to their application of traditional forest knowledge by occurrence in nature, their biological properties, local and indigenous communities worldwide. Language users have access to several sources of the analytical aspects, their use as probes, and their It considers the interplay between traditional information during the build up of a meaningful incorporation into peptides and proteins, among beliefs and practices and formal forest science and construction. These include grammatical rules, other reasons. Divided into five convenient sections, interrogates the often uneasy relationship between situational knowledge, and general world knowledge. Unnatural Amino Acids: Methods and Protocols these different knowledge systems.The contents A central role in this process is played by the deals with enzymatic methods used to produce also highlight efforts to conserve and promote argument structure of verbs, which establishes non-natural amino acids, aspects concerning the traditional forest management practices that balance the syntactic and semantic relationships between presence of unnatural amino acids in peptides with the environmental, economic and social objectives arguments. This book provides an overview of recent antimicrobial properties, genetic incorporation of forest management. It places these efforts in the psycholinguistic and theoretical investigations on of unnatural amino acids into proteins (yeast and context of recent trends towards the devolution of the interplay between structural syntactic relations mammalian cells), and detection and quantification forest management authority in many parts of the and role semantics. The focus herein lies on the of D-amino acids and related enzymes. Written in world.The book includes regional chapters covering interaction of case marking and word order with the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ North America, South America, Africa, Europe, semantic prominence features, such as animacy series format, chapters contain introductions to their Asia and the Australia-Pacific region. As well as and definiteness. The interaction of these different respective topics, lists of the necessary materials relating the general factors mentioned above to these sorts of information is addressed from theoretical, and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible specific areas, these chapters cover issues of special time-insensitive, and incremental perspectives, laboratory[..] regional[..] or a combination of these. Taking a broad cross- linguistic perspective, this book bridges the gap Features Features between theoretical and psycholinguistic approaches Even though they are present in nature, non- Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, to argument structure. proteinogenic amino acids are usually defined as Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, unnatural or non-natural. Beside their structural current status and trends in the development and Features diversity, interest in these compounds is due to their application of traditional forest knowledge by local Language users access an array of information occurrence in nature, their biological properties, and indigenous communities worldwide. It considers during the construction and interpretation of the analytical aspects, their use as probes, and their the interplay between traditional beliefs and utterances, including grammatical rules and incorporation into peptides and proteins, among practices and formal forest science and interrogates situational knowledge. The argument structure of other reasons. Divided into five convenient sections, the often uneasy relationship between these [..] verbs, which establishes the syntactic and semantic [..] relationships between arguments, plays a key Contents role in this process. This book reviews recent Contents Dedication.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- psycholinguistic and theoretical investigations into Preparation of Unnatural Amino Acids with 1. Introduction: The Growing Importance of the interplay between [..] Ammonia-lyases and 2,3-aminomutases.- Multistep Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge.- 2. Africa.- Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions for Unnatural Amino 3. Latin America—Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.- Contents Acids.- Enzymatic Production of Enantiopure 4. Amazonia.- 5. North America.- 6. Europe.- 7. Preface.- Contributors.- List of Abbreviations.- Amino Acids from Mono-substituted Hydantoin Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.- 1. The Interaction of Case, Word Order Substrates.- Preparation of Glutamate Analogues by 8. Northeast Asia.- 9. South Asia.- 10. Southeast and Prominence: Language Production and Enzymatic Transamination.- Carbon-Carbon Bond Asia.- 11. Western Pacific.- 12. Globalisation, Comprehension in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.- Forming Enzymes for the Synthesis of Non-natural Local Communities, and Traditional Forest- 2. A Lexical-functional Account of Spanish Dative Amino Acids.- Engineering Cyclic Amidases for Related Knowledge.- 13. Traditional Forest-Related Usage.- 3. Case in Conflict: Embedded Subjects in Non-natural Amino Acid Synthesis.- NMR Analysis Knowledge and Climate Change.- 14. Ethics and Mongolian.- 4. Animacy, Generalized Semantic of Unnatural Amino Acids in Natural Antibiotics.- Research Methodologies for the Study of Traditional Roles, and Differential Object Marking.- 5. The Role Site-specific Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Forest-Related[..] of Animacy in Online Argument Interpretation Acids as Probes for Protein[..] in Mandarin Chinese.- 6. Argument Linearization Fields of interest in Dutch: a Multi-factorial Approach.- 7. 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M. Kaufmann, Georg-August University, Germany R. Kraus, Heddesheim, Germany; P. Baumgartner, University of Applied Sciences, Flensburg, Germany Materials Science Interpreting Imperatives Phraseological Dictionary English - S. Gorb, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany (Ed.) Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the German major clause types alongside those known as General Vocabulary in Technical and Scientific Texts Adhesion and Friction in Biological declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning, which relies The dictionary lists the general vocabulary - Systems largely on either the concept of truth conditions nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives - which occurs in or the concept of information growth—neither practically all technical texts. This vocabulary should This book is a collection of experimental studies of which are easily applied to imperatives. 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J.M.P.Q. Delgado, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal (Ed.) V. Topolov, Southern Federal University, Rostov on Don, Russia S. Sadewasser, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal; T. Glatzel, Universität Basel, Switzerland (Eds.) Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Heterogeneous Ferroelectric Solid Media Solutions Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy Measuring and Compensating Electrostatic Forces Phases and Domain States This book, "Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Over the nearly 20 years of Kelvin probe force The book deals with perovskite-type ferroelectric Media", presents a set of new developments in microscopy, an increasing interest in the technique solid solutions for modern materials science and the field of basic and applied research work on and its applications has developed. 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W.G.J.H.M. van Sark, Debye Inst., Utrecht, The Netherlands; L. A. Holme, University of Bergen, Norway Korte, Helmholtz Zentrum, Berlin; F. Roca, ENEA, Italy (Eds.) Mathematics A Royal Road to Algebraic Physics and Technology Geometry of Amorphous-Crystalline W.D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA Heterostructure Silicon Solar Cells A Beginner's Guide to Discrete This book is about modern algebraic geometry. Mathematics The title A Royal Road to Algebraic Geometry is Today’s solar cell multi-GW market is dominated by inspired by the famous anecdote about the king crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafer technology, however asking Euclid if there really existed no simpler way new cell concepts are entering the market. One very Wallis's book on discrete mathematics is a resource for learning geometry, than to read all of his work promising solar cell design to answer these needs is for an introductory course in a subject fundamental Elements. 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Lower-division undergraduates through graduate Curves in A2 k and in P2.- 3 Higher Geometry in Contents students.—Choice (Review of [..] the Projective Plane.- 4 Plane Curves and Algebra.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Status of heterojunction 5 Projective Varieties in PNk.- Part II Introduction solar cell R&D.- Basic features of Heterojunctions Contents to Grothendieck’s Theory of Schemes: 6 Categories illustrated by selected experimental methods and Properties of Numbers.- Sets and Data Structures.- and Functors.- 7 Constructions and Representable results.- Deposition methods of thin film silicon.- Boolean Algebras and Circuits.- Relations and Functors.- 8 Abelian Categories.- 9 The Concept Electronic properties of ultrathin a-Si:H layers and Functions.- The Theory of Counting.- Probability.- of Spec(A).- 10 The Category of Schemes.- 11 the a-Si:H/c-Si interface.- Degradation of (bulk Graph Theory.- Matrices.- Number Theory and Properties of Morphisms of Schemes.- 12 Modules, and thin film) a-Si and interface passivation.- Cryptography.- The Theory of Voting.- Solutions to Algebras and Bundles on a Scheme.- 13 More Photoluminescence and electroluminescence for Practic Exercises.- Answers to Selected Exercises.- Properties of Morphisms, Scheme Theoretic Image a Si:H/c Si device and interface characterization.- Index. and the “Sorite”.- 14 Projective Schemes and Deposition and properties of transparent conductive Bundles.- 15[..] oxides.- Metallization and formation of contacts.- Fields of interest Fields of interest Electrical and optical characterization[..] Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science; Combinatorics; Algebraic Geometry; Category Theory, Homological Fields of interest Statistical Theory and Methods Algebra; Geometry; Algebraic Topology; Optical and Electronic Materials; Applied Optics, Commutative Rings and Algebras; History of Optoelectronics, Optical Devices; Surfaces and Target groups Mathematics Interfaces, Thin Films Lower undergraduate Target groups Target groups Type of publication Graduate Research Undergraduate textbook Type of publication Graduate/advanced undergraduate textbook Type of publication Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Monograph Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days 2012. 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M. Abate, Università di Pisa, Italia; F. Tovena, Università Tor G.F. Torres del Castillo, Ciudad Universitaria, Puebla de Zaragoza, J. Necas, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Vergata, Roma, Italia Pue., México Direct Methods in the Theory of Curves and Surfaces Differentiable Manifolds Elliptic Equations A Theoretical Physics Approach The book provides an introduction to Differential Nečas’ book Direct Methods in the Theory of Elliptic Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. The theory of This textbook explores the theory behind Equations, published 1967 in French, has become a curves starts with a discussion of possible definitions differentiable manifolds and investigates various standard reference for the mathematical theory of of the concept of curve, proving in particular the physics applications along the way. Basic concepts, linear elliptic equations and systems. This English classification of 1-dimensional manifolds. We then such as differentiable manifolds, differentiable edition presents Nečas’ work essentially in the form present the classical local theory of parametrized mappings, tangent vectors, vector fields, and it was published in 1967. It gives a timeless and plane and space curves (curves in n-dimensional differential forms, are briefly introduced in the in some sense definitive treatment of a number space are discussed in the complementary material): first three chapters. Chapter 4 gives a concise issues in variational methods for elliptic systems and curvature, torsion, Frenet’s formulas and the introduction to differential geometry needed in higher order equations. The text is recommended to fundamental theorem of the local theory of subsequent chapters. Chapters 5 and 6 provide graduate students of partial differential equations, curves. Then, after a self-contained presentation interesting applications to connections and postdoctoral associates in Analysis, and scientists of degree theory for continuous self-maps of the Riemannian manifolds. Lie groups and Hamiltonian working with linear elliptic systems. In fact, any circumference, we study the global theory of plane mechanics are closely examined in the last two researcher using the theory of elliptic systems will curves, introducing winding and rotation numbers, chapters. Included throughout the book are a benefit from having the book in his library.The and proving the Jordan curve theorem for curves collection of exercises of varying degrees of difficulty. volume gives a self-contained presentation of of class C2, and Hopf theorem on the rotation Differentiable Manifolds is intended for graduate the elliptic theory based on the "direct method", number of closed simple curves. The local theory of students and researchers interested in a theoretical also known as the variational method. Due to its surfaces begins with a comparison of the concept physics approach to the subject. Prerequisites include universality and close connections to numerical of parametrized (i.e., immersed) surface with the multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential approximations, the variational method has become concept of regular (i.e., embedded) surface. We then equations, and a basic knowledge of analytical one of the most important approaches to the develop the basic[..] mechanics. elliptic[..] Features Features Features The book provides an introduction to Differential This textbook gives a concise introduction to the Nečas’ book Direct Methods in the Theory of Elliptic Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. The theory of theory of differentiable manifolds, focusing on their Equations, published 1967 in French, has become a curves starts with a discussion of possible definitions applications to differential equations, differential standard reference for the mathematical theory of of the concept of curve, proving in particular the geometry, and Hamiltonian mechanics.The work’s linear elliptic equations and systems. This English classification of 1-dimensional manifolds. We then first three chapters introduce the basic concepts edition presents Nečas’ work essentially in the form present the classical local theory of parametrized of the theory, such as differentiable maps, tangent it was published in 1967. 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It is intended Features to [..] to provide a framework andtechniques to describe This unique book presents real world success stories and analyze the evolution of dynamicalsystems of collaboration between mathematicians and Contents when the input and output data are known only Part I Introduction and Preliminary Material.- industrial partners, showcasing first-hand case approximately, according to some probability studies, and lessons learned from the experiences, 1.Introduction .- 2.Some Prerequisites.- Part II distribution. The development of this field, in both The Basic Results.- 3.Laws of Large Numbers: technologies, and business challenges that led to the theory and applications, has gone in many the successful development of industrial solutions the Basic Results.- 4.Central Limit Theorems: directions. [..] Technical Tools.- 5.Central Limit Theorems: the based on mathematics.These success stories show the crucial contribution of mathematics to innovation Basic Results.- 6.Integrated Discretization Error.- Contents and [..] Part III More Laws of Large Numbers.- 7.First 1 Introduction.- 2 Expanding Random Maps.- 3 Extension: Random Weights.- 8.Second Extension: The RPF–theorem.- 4 Measurability, Pressure and Contents Functions of Several Increments.- 9.Third Extension: Gibbs Condition.- 5 Fractal Structure of Conformal Foreword.- Preface.- Introduction.- Health Biology.- Truncated Functionals.- Part IV Extensions of the Expanding Random Repellers.- 6 Multifractal Energy & Environment.- Finance & Modelling.- Central Limit Theorems.- 10.The Central Limit Analysis.- 7 Expanding in the Mean.- 8 Classical Automotive Industry & Manufacturing.- Aerospace Theorem for Random Weights.- 11.The Central Expanding Random Systems.- 9 Real Analyticity of & Electronics.- Services, Transport & Logistics.- Limit Theorem for[..] Pressure. 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J. Picado, University of Coimbra, Portugal; A. Pultr, Karlovy H. Holden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, S. Roman, Irvine, CA, USA University, Prague, Czech Republic Trondheim, Norway; N.H. Risebro, University of Oslo, Blindern, Norway Fundamentals of Group Theory Frames and Locales Front Tracking for Hyperbolic An Advanced Approach Topology without points Conservation Laws Fundamentals of Group Theory provides a Until the mid-twentieth century, topological studies comprehensive account of the basic theory of were focused on the theory of suitable structures Hyperbolic conservation laws are central in the groups. Both classic and unique topics in the field on sets of points. The concept of open set exploited theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and are covered, such as an historical look at how Galois since the twenties offered an expression of the in science and technology. The reader is given a self- viewed groups, a discussion of commutator and geometric intuition of a "realistic" place (spot, grain) contained presentation using front tracking, which Sylow subgroups, and a presentation of Birkhoff’s of non-trivial extent.Imitating the behaviour of open is also a numerical method. The multidimensional theorem. Written in a clear and accessible style, sets and their relations led to a new approach to scalar case and the case of systems on the line are the work presents a solid introduction for students topology flourishing since the end of the fifties.It has treated in detail. A chapter on finite differences is wishing to learn more about this widely applicable proved to be beneficial in many respects. Neglecting included.From the reviews:"It is already one of the subject area. This book will be suitable for graduate points, only little information was lost, while deeper few best digests on this topic. The present book is an courses in group theory and abstract algebra, and insights have been gained; moreover, many results excellent compromise between theory and practice. will also have appeal to advanced undergraduates. In previously dependent on choice principles became Students will appreciate the lively and accurate style." addition it will serve as a valuable resource for those constructive. The result is often a smoother, rather D. Serre, MathSciNet "I have read the book with pursuing independent study. Group Theory is a than a more entangled, theory.No monograph of great pleasure, and I can recommend it to experts timely and fundamental addition to literature in the this nature has appeared since Johnstone's celebrated as well as students. It can also be used for reliable study of groups.[..] Stone Spaces in 1983. The present book is intended and very exciting basis for a one-semester graduate as a bridge from that time to the present. Most of Features course." S. 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The concept of open set theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and such as intersection, lifting and quotient to a “group exploited since the 1920s offered an expression of in science and technology. The reader is given a self- [..] the geometric intuition of a "realistic" place (spot, contained presentation using front tracking, which grain) of non-trivial extent.Imitating the behaviour Contents is also a numerical method. The multidimensional of open sets and their relations led to a new approach Preliminaries.- Groups and Subgroups.- Cosets, scalar case and the case of systems on the line are to topology flourishing since the end of the [..] Index and Normal Subgroups.- Homomorphisms.- treated in detail. A chapter on finite differences is Chain Conditions and Subnormality.- Direct and included.From the reviews:"It is [..] Contents Semidirect Products.- Permutation Groups.- Group Preface.- Introduction.- I. Spaces and lattices of Contents Actions.- The Structure of –Groups.- Sylow Theory.- open sets.- II. Frames and locales. Spectra.- III. Preface.- Introduction.- Scalar Conservation The Classification Problem for Groups.- Finiteness Sublocales.- IV. Structure of localic morphisms. The Laws.- A Short Course in Difference Methods.- Conditions.- Free Groups and Presentations.- categories Loc and Frm.- V. Separation axioms.- VI. Multidimensional Scalar Conservation Laws.- Abelian Groups.- References More on sublocales.-VII. Compactness and local The Riemann Problem for Systems.- Existence compactness.- VIII. (Symmetric) uniformity and Fields of interest of Solutions of the Cauchy Problem.- Well- nearness.- IX. Paracompactness.- X. More about Group Theory and Generalizations; Algebra; Order, Posedness of the Cauchy Problem.- Total Variations, completion.- XI. Metric frames.- XII. 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D.A. Klyushin, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, M.T. Thai, University of Florida, Gainesville,FL, USA A. Joseph, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel; A. Melnikov, Ukraine; S.I. Lyashko, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, University of Haifa, Israel; I. Penkov, Jacobs University, Bremen, Ukraine; D.A. Nomirovskii, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko Germany (Eds.) University, Ukraine; Y.I. Petunin, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko Group Testing Theory in Network University, Ukraine; V.V. Semenov, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine Security Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods An Advanced Solution Generalized Solutions of Operator This volume consists of expository and research Group Testing Theory in Network Security explores articles that highlight the various Lie algebraic Equations and Extreme Elements a new branch of group testing theory with an methods used in mathematical research today. application which enhances research results in Key topics discussed include spherical varieties, network security. This brief presents new solutions Abstract models for many problems in science Littelmann Paths and Kac–Moody Lie algebras, on several advanced network security problems and engineering take the form of an operator modular representations, primitive ideals, and mathematical frameworks based on the group equation. The resolution of these problems often representation theory of Artin algebras and quivers, testing theory, specifically denial-of-service and requires determining the existence and uniqueness of Kac–Moody superalgebras, categories of Harish– jamming attacks. A new application of group testing, solutions to these equations. "Generalized Solutions Chandra modules, cohomological methods, and illustrated in this text, requires additional theories, of Operator Equations and Extreme Elements" cluster algebras. such as size constraint group testing and connected presents recently obtained results in the study of group testing. Included in this text is a chapter the generalized solutions of operator equations and Features devoted to discussing open problems and suggesting extreme elements in linear topological spaces. The An outgrowth of a two-week summer session at new solutions for various network security problems. presented results offer new methods of identifying Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany in August This text also exemplifies the connection between these solutions and studying their properties. These 2009 ("Structures in Lie Theory, Crystals, Derived mathematical approaches and practical applications new methods involve the application of a priori Functors, Harish–Chandra Modules, Invariants to group testing theory in network security. This estimations and a general topological approach and Quivers"), this volume consists of expository work will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience with to construct generalized solutions of linear and and research articles that highlight the various Lie interests in computer communication networks, nonlinear operator equations. 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This brief presents new solutions and engineering take the form of an operator the Structure of the Kashiwara B(∞) Crystal.- 3 on several advanced network security problems equation; the resolution of these problems often Structure and Representation Theory of Kac–Moody and mathematical frameworks based on the group requires determining the existence and uniqueness of Superalgebras.- 4 Categories of Harish–Chandra testing theory, specifically denial-of-service and solutions to these equations. Generalized Solutions Modules.- 5 Generalized Harish–Chandra Modules.- jamming attacks. A new application of group testing, of Operator Equations and Extreme Elements Part II: The Papers.- 6 B-Orbits of 2-Nilpotent illustrated [..] presents a general functional analytic approach to Matrices.- 7 The Weyl Denominator Identity for Finite-Dimensional Lie Superalgebras.- 8 Hopf solving operator equations in a general form. 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It has been on subsets with no a priori differential structure on subsets with no a priori differential structure conceived as a unique collection of abstract methods (Whitney problems). The account covers the (Whitney problems). The account covers the dealing especially with nonlinear partial differential development of the area from the initial classical development of the area from the initial classical equations (either stationary or evolutionary) that are works of the first half of the 20th century to the works of the first half of the 20th century to the applied to [..] flourishing period [..] flourishing period [..] Contents Contents Contents Viorel Barbu: Foreword.- 1.Overview of merhods Preface.- Basic Terms and Notation.- Part 1. Part 3. Lipschitz Extensions from Subsets of Metric in PDEs.- 2.Liouville Type Theorems for Elliptic Classical Extension-Trace Theorems and Related Spaces.- Chapter 6. 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M.F. Collen, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA K.T. McVary, Northwestern University Feinberg School of R.A. Soslow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA (Ed.) USA; C. Tornos, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook NY, USA (Eds.) Computer Medical Databases Contemporary Treatment of The First Six Decades (1950–2010) Erectile Dysfunction Diagnostic Pathology of Ovarian Chapter 1 offers an overview of the basic computer Tumors A Clinical Guide technology. Each succeeding chapter, describes the problems in medicine, followed by a review in Erectile dysfunction can affect all age groups. Diagnostic Pathology of Ovarian Tumors offers a chronological sequence of why and how computers Numerous physical and emotional risk factors focus on the pathology of ovarian neoplasia with were applied to try to meet these problems. Only the may contribute to the problem. These risk factors detailed clinically relevant information for practicing technical aspects of computer hardware, software, can range from chronic diseases and medications pathologists not found in other more general and communications are discussed as they are to psychological factors. In the U.S. alone, it volumes of gynecologic pathology. This important necessary to explain how the technology was applied. has been estimated that 18 to 30 million men work focuses almost entirely on strategies for This approach generally led to defining the objectives suffer from erectile dysfunction. This number accurate diagnosis and histologic subclassification, for applications of medical informatics. At the end has increased significantly as awareness of the and the clinical correlates of these diagnosis. It of each chapter, the author summarizes his personal disorder has heightened. Researchers and health care provides evolving guidelines for detecting early views and interpretations of the chapter contents. professionals now have a better understanding of ovarian cancer in prophylactic specimens; cutting- Although the concurrent evolution of medical what causes erectile dysfunction and the effective edge information on enhancing the reproducible informatics in Canada, Europe, and Japan certainly medications and non-medication treatments and clinically meaningful subclassification of ovarian influenced workers in the United States, the scope of used to treat the condition. Comprehensive and carcinoma as well as new proposals for ovarian this historical review is limited to the development state-of-the-art, Contemporary Treatment of carcinoma grading. Richly illustrated, containing of medical informatics within the United States. 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S.K. Mohsin, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Pathology S.H. Faro, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; F.B. V. Gilsanz, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, CA, USA; O. Ratib, Department, Columbus, OH, USA Mohamed, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; M. Law, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; J.T. Ulmer, Milwaukee, WI, USA (Eds.) Frozen Section Library: Breast Hand Bone Age
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Other types of headache, such as the more common . Other types of headache, such as the more the application of high-field MR imaging, including prevalent TTH and sub-types of the more disabling prevalent TTH and sub-types of the more disabling radiologists, neuroscientists, and oncologists. chronic daily headache, have so far received less chronic daily headache, have so far received less attention and need to be better investigated. This attention and need to be better investigated. This Features book will provide a[..] book will provide a[..] This book describes the current status of the very rapidly developing field of high-field MR and Features Features examines the possibilities, challenges, and limitations Headache disorders are one of the most common Headache disorders are one of the most common of this fascinating technology. In the initial chapters, disorders of the nervous system. They are pandemic disorders of the nervous system. 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P.H. Beighton, University of Cape Town Medical School, South A. Saxena, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, CA, USA (Ed.) G.R. Scuderi, Insall Scott Kelly Institute for Orthopaedics and Africa; R. Grahame, University College London, UK; H. Bird, Sports Medicine, New York, NY, USA; A.J. Tria, Department of University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Orthopedic Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, International Advances in Foot and Piscataway, NJ, USA (Eds.) Hypermobility of Joints Ankle Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgery in
Hypermobility of Joints 4th Edition follows the same A comprehensive textbook of some of the most Orthopedics common and difficult to deal with pathologies. The format as its successful predecessors. The aim of Foot and Ankle Handbook which was to provide an overview of hyperlaxity of first truly international, multidisciplinary manual of foot and ankle surgery by the specialty’s leaders joints and this edition follows that aim by describing Minimally Invasive Surgery in Orthopedics: Foot and most experienced surgeons. The management the most recent research and new developments in and Ankle Handbook contains all of the valuable of various conditions in the foot and ankle will biochemistry, as well as providing practical advice on chapters from Section III (The Knee) and selections be approached by authors in different parts of clinical features and management. Hypermobility of from Section VI (Computer Navigation) of Scuderi the world. Authors will be invited to provide Joints 4th Edition provides illustrative case histories, and Tria’s 2010 hardcover reference. Newly available radiographs, diagrams, and intra-operative pictures a review of hypermobility in the performing arts in an affordable softcover format, this book covers to illustrate the procedures described. Current up and sports and an outline of heritable hypermobility minimally invasive procedures and techniques to date trends and techniques using a scientific syndromes. This book is a valuable reference tool for the knee as well as computer navigation and approach including evidence based guidelines where for a wide number of specialties, although it will robotics. The book is fully illustrated with more than applicable. The reader will be exposed to a step- particularly be of interest to rheumatologists, one hundred pictures and clearly written for ease by-step approach to each procedure presented. No orthopedic surgeons and medical geneticists. of understanding. Surgeons, residents and fellows outcome research has been performed in this area, alike will find this thorough and focused handbook and the book may serve as a reference in this respect. Features invaluable. Hypermobility of Joints 4th Edition follows the same Features format as its successful predecessors. The aim of Features A comprehensive textbook of some of the most which was to provide an overview of hyperlaxity of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Orthopedics: Foot common and difficult to deal with pathologies. The joints and this edition follows that aim by describing and Ankle Handbook contains all of the valuable first truly international, multidisciplinary manual the most recent research and new developments in chapters from Section IV (The Foot and Ankle) and of foot and ankle surgery by the specialty’s leaders biochemistry, as well as providing practical advice on a selection from Section VI (Computer Navigation) and most experienced surgeons. The management clinical features and management. Hypermobility of of Scuderi and Tria's 2010 hardcover reference. of various conditions in the foot and ankle will Joints 4th Edition provides illustrative case [..] Newly available in this convenient and affordable be approached by authors in different parts of softcover format, this book covers minimally the world. 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M. Christodoulides, Molecular Microbiology and Infection, J.J. Hoballah, American University of Beirut Medical Center , R.A. Adler, McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, University of Southampton Medical School, Southampton, Lebanon; C.E.H. Scott-Conner, MD, University of Iowa Carver VA, USA (Ed.) Hampshire, UK (Ed.) College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA (Eds.) Osteoporosis Neisseria meningitidis Operative Dictations in General and Pathophysiology and Clinical Management Advanced Methods and Protocols Vascular Surgery Osteoporosis is a widespread disorder with Neisseria meningitidis is a major causative significant worldwide health and economic impact. Operative Dictations in General and Vascular agent, worldwide, of potentially life-threatening In the second edition of the highly successful Surgery, Second Edition is intended to teach meningitis and septicaemia, which carry with Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical residents the principles of succinct and precise them a high mortality rate and permanent physical Management, new editor Robert A. Adler, MD, uses operative dictations for a wide spectrum of surgical and neurological issues for survivors. Neisseria the same approach as the first edition, pairing a procedures. Designed as a portable resource, meningitidis: Advanced Methods and Protocols chapter on the basic science of a disorder followed the book provides typical dictations to guide the offers a collection of methods and protocols that by a chapter on its clinical aspects. Updated and resident. Comprised of 226 procedures, this new reflect the development and refinement of several expanded, this second edition includes many edition comprises the majority of procedures new technologies applied to the meningococcus new chapters reflecting the growing literature commonly performed by general and vascular as presented by expert researchers. Several of the on osteoporosis. New topics cover such areas surgeons. For each procedure, a list of common chapters in this book describe methods that rely as methods of bone imaging, screening for indications is given. This list covers 95% of the on the collection of complete sets of biological osteoporosis, adherence to therapy, and even a novel situations in which a particular procedure will be data, for example, using the genome to generate and exciting chapter on osteoporosis in men, to used. A list of essential steps follows. These can be transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes. name just several. In Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology used to mentally rehearse the procedure before it is Written in the highly successful Methods in and Clinical Management, Second Edition, leading performed. The next heading, Note these technical Molecular Biology™ series format, chapters include experts in a variety of fields have once again variations, introduces a list that is intended to introductions to their respective topics, lists of provided a wealth of invaluable, state-of-the-art prompt the surgeon for particular things to note the necessary materials and reagents, step-by- information to illuminate the major scientific and and dictate within the template. A list of possible step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, clinical aspects of osteoporosis. complications that are typically associated with and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known that particular surgical procedure follows. Finally, a pitfalls. 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Updated and the book provides typical dictations to guide the offers a collection of methods and protocols that expanded, this second [..] resident. Comprised of 226 procedures, this new reflect the development and refinement of several edition comprises the majority of procedures new [..] Contents commonly performed by [..] 1. Determinants of peak bone mass acquisition.- Contents 2. Bone mineral assessment of the axial skeleton: Contents Neisseria meningitidis: Biology, Microbiology, and technical aspects.- 3. New imaging techniques for Section I. General Surgery: Esophagus.- Stomach & Epidemiology.- Classification and Pathogenesis bone.- 4. The clinical role of bone density scans Duodenum.- Small Intestine & Appendix.- Large of Meningococcal Infections.- Detection of in the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.- Intestine.- Anus, Rectum, and Pilonidal Region.- Neisseria meningitidis in Cerebrospinal Fluid 5. Biochemical markers of bone turnover – basic Hepatobiliary Tract.- Pancreas.- Spleen.- Hernia Using a Multiplex PCR and the Luminex Detection biochemistry and variability.- 6. Biochemical Repairs.- Surgery for Necrotizing Fasciitis.- Draining Technology.- Generating Knock-Out and markers of bone turnover – clinical aspects.- 7. of Subphrenic Abscess.- Breast.- Lymph Nodes.- Complementation Strains of Neisseria meningitides.- Biomechanics of bone.- 8. Mechanical influences Head and Neck.- Miscellaneous Procedures.- Identification and Functional Characterization on bone mass and morphology.- 9. Exercise in Section II. Vascular Surgery: Cerebrovascular of sRNAs in Neisseria meningitides.- Expression, the prevention of osteoporosis-related fractures.- Occlusive Disease.- Mesenteric and Renal Artery Purification, and Crystallization of Neisserial Outer 10. 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Penetrating Trauma Clinical Management of the Addicted Patient Practical ECG Holter
A Practical Guide on Operative Technique and Peri-Operative Perioperative Addiction addresses an issue that 100 Cases Management every anesthesiologist will encounter many times during the course of his or her career: the patient As arrhythmias may be transient in nature and Surgery needs skill. Skill needs knowledge. who arrives for operative care under the influence of not seen during the shorter recording times of the Knowledge of tricks, moves, and tools. This book legal or illegal drugs. The editors and contributors standard ECG, ECG Holter monitoring allows the is about such knowledge. Expert authors have provide expert guidance on how to identify and physician to make better informed decisions for the contributed technical pearls, gained by years of manage the addicted patient, approaching the cardiac patient. The devices are worn by patients on experience. 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Designed for rapid study, this book contains management in trauma; rather the goal is to provide drugs, and alcohol, to tobacco, marijuana, nitrous 100 illustrative cases in ECG Holter monitoring. practical solutions on how to treat injuries surgically. oxide, inhalants, and propofol· Special Each case consists of a tracing followed by a brief It describes the steps that you must take when, in populations, including pregnant women, pain explanation of the findings. 100 Cases in ECG Holter the middle of the night, confronted with devastating patients, adolescents, older patients, and healthcare is the perfect resource for busy physicians looking bleeding, you will have only one chance to save a life! professionals · Fascinating overview of the long to optimize their skills at interpreting ECG Holter readings. Features history of addiction· Genetic basis of addiction, and the range of pharmacological treatments for Surgery needs skill. Skill needs knowledge. 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R.B. Shah, Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX, USA; M. Zhou, New York N.T. Colburn, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA A. Ebringer, King's College, London, UK University, NY, USA Review of Rheumatology Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus Prostate Biopsy Interpretation: An
Illustrated Guide Review of Rheumatology is a synopsis of key areas Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus explores the idea of interest, making for an indispensable quick that Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a urinary tract This book covers all the practical issues related to reference work. The material included reviews basic infection as a result of Proteus bacteria. Rheumatoid the interpretation of prostatic biopsies in day-to-day musculoskeletal anatomy, immunology, genetics, arthritis is a severe, painful and crippling disease practice, including: biopsy sampling and processing; major rheumatic diseases and their pathophysiology, affecting millions of people throughout the world, the diagnosis of limited cancer; differentiation of and major rheumatic therapeutics, as well as a especially women. Genetic studies over the last prostate cancers from benign lesions and recognition unique chapter on the emerging autoinflammatory 30 years have shown that individuals who possess of histologic variants; the recognition and clinical diseases. Review of Rheumatology is a clear the white cell blood groups HLA-DR1/4 carry significance of “atypical” diagnoses and HGPIN; and concise review book written in an outline a susceptibility sequence and are more likely to the identification of recently described entities; format. This book is a quick and easily accessible develop the disease. This book uses the methods the contemporary approach to Gleason grading; reference not only for those preparing for the of Sir Karl Popper, the philosopher of science, to the utility of immunohistochemical markers and rheumatology board exams, but it also serves as present 12 “Popper sequences” which have been emerging molecular markers; and the reporting a succinct reference for all health care workers identified to indicate that Proteus is the causative of prostate biopsies. Algorithms, flow charts, and interested in the field of rheumatology. agent of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis tables are used throughout to simulate the thought and Proteus proposes that Anti-Proteus therapies Features and decision-making process upon encountering should be followed as early as possible to prevent the Review of Rheumatology is a synopsis of key areas common clinical scenarios during sign-out of crippling and irreversible joint deformities that occur of interest, making for an indispensable quick prostate biopsy. The book is richly illustrated with in Rheumatoid Arthritis. reference work. The material included reviews basic carefully selected, high-quality color images and will musculoskeletal anatomy, immunology, genetics, Features appeal especially to practicing surgical pathologists major rheumatic diseases and their pathophysiology, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus explores the idea as well as pathology residents and fellows in training. and major rheumatic therapeutics, as well as a that Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a urinary tract Features unique chapter on the emerging autoinflammatory infection as a result of Proteus bacteria.Rheumatoid Prostate needle biopsy specimens account for diseases. Review of Rheumatology is a clear and [..] arthritis is a severe, painful and crippling disease an important portion of a surgical pathologist’s affecting millions of people throughout the world, Contents daily work. There is, however, a significant error especially women. Genetic studies over the last 30 The Musculoskeletal System.- Joints.- Articular rate when diagnosing prostate cancer in needle years have shown that individuals who possess the Cartilage.- Bone.- Synovium And Synovial Fluid.- biopsies. Furthermore, the modified Gleason grading white cell blood groups HLA-DR1/4 carry [..] Skeletal Muscle:-Vascular Endothelium.- Peripheral scheme is being only slowly adopted, and there is Nerves.- Collagen And Elastin:-Proteoglycans.- Contents considerable variation in reporting. 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M. Bertolotto, University of Triest, Triest, Italy; C. Trombetta, J. Rello, University Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain; J. B. Davidson, Norwegian Radium Hospital; P. Firat, İstanbul University of Trieste, Department of Urology, Ospedale di Lipman, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, University; C.W. Michael, University of Michigan (Eds.) Cattinara, Trieste, Italy (Eds.) Australia; T. Lisboa, University Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain (Eds.) Serous Effusions Scrotal Pathology Sepsis Management Etiology, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy
Scrotal Pathology is a comprehensive practical guide PIRO and MODS Serous (peritoneal, pleural and pericardial) effusions to the management of patients who present with are a frequently encountered clinical finding in scrotal disorders. Introductory chapters consider This book is unique in approaching multiple organ everyday medical practice and one of the most imaging instrumentation, clinical evaluation, and dysfunction syndrome (MODS) from the perspective common specimen types submitted for cytological clinical and imaging anatomy. The full range of of its pathophysiological mechanism, and addressing evaluation. The correct diagnosis of effusions is disorders is then discussed in individual chapters aspects that are overlooked in most of the available critical for patient management, as well as for organized according to clinical presentation. All literature. Eminent experts in the field from prognostication and yet many clinicians find clinical and imaging aspects are covered in depth, Europe and beyond offer new insights into risk diagnosis and treatment of cancer cells in effusions with full description of symptoms and explanation stratification, severity assessment, and management very challenging.Featuring multiple microscopic of the value of different clinical tests and imaging of critically ill patients with sepsis. The principal illustrations of all diagnostic entities and ancillary modalities. In addition, underlying histopathological focus is on recently developed concepts in infection techniques (immunhistochemistry and molecular features are presented and correlated with imaging management and in antibiotic use, bearing in mind methods), this book provides a comprehensive, features in order to clarify their pathological that in these patients the pharmacokinetics of authoritative guide to all aspects of serous effusions, basis. For each disorder, therapeutic strategies antibiotics are altered, affecting renal clearance and including etiology, morphology and ancillary are discussed and appraised. Adults and children requiring dosage adjustments. The significance of diagnostic methods, as well as data related to are considered separately whenever necessary, the PIRO (predisposing factors, infection, response, therapeutic approaches and prognostication. Section bearing in mind that they often present essentially organ dysfunction) model in the development of one covers diagnosis for benign and malignant different scrotal pathology. The many images are all effective treatment strategies is emphasized. This effusions including the etiological reasons for the of high quality and were obtained using high-end book will be of interest and value to all who are accumulation of effusions that provides the reader equipment. involved in the treatment of, or research into, sepsis with the full spectrum of differential diagnoses at this and MODS. anatomic site.[..] Features Scrotal Pathology is a comprehensive practical guide Features Features to the management of patients who present with This book is unique in approaching multiple organ Serous (peritoneal, pleural and pericardial) effusions scrotal disorders. Introductory chapters consider dysfunction syndrome (MODS) from the perspective are a frequently encountered clinical finding in imaging instrumentation, clinical evaluation, and of its pathophysiological mechanism, and addressing everyday medical practice and one of the most clinical and imaging anatomy. The full range of aspects that are overlooked in most of the available common specimen types submitted for cytological disorders is then discussed in individual chapters literature. Eminent experts in the field from Europe evaluation. The correct diagnosis of effusions is organized according to clinical presentation. All and beyond offer new insights into risk stratification, critical for patient management, as well as for clinical and imaging aspects are covered in depth, [..] severity assessment, and management of critically ill prognostication and yet many clinicians find patients with sepsis. The principal focus [..] diagnosis and treatment of cancer cells in effusions Contents very [..] Instrumentation, Technical Requirements 1.US.- Contents 2.MRI.- Anatomy of the Scrotum.- Clinical Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS): Contents Evaluation of Scrotal Disease.- Sonographic What is new?.- MODS scores. Which should I Benign effusions.- Lung carcinoma.- Ovarian/ Scrotal Anatomy.- Scrotal Anatomy at MRI.- use?.- Why guidelines require reform.- PIRO primary peritoneal carcinoma.- Breast carcinoma.- Scrotal Trauma: Mechanisms, Presentation and concept and clinical failure.- PIRO-based approach Malignant mesothelioma.- Hematological Management.- Imaging Scrotal Trauma.- Acute for sepsis in immunocompromised patients: What's hematologic and lymphoid neoplasia.- Cancer of Scrotal Pain. Clinical features.- Acute Scrotal Pain. different?.- Intra-abdominal hypertension and other origin.- Lung carcinoma.- Ovarian/primary Management.- Imaging Acute Scrotal Pain in MODS.- Assessing renal dysfunction in septic peritoneal carcinoma.- Breast carcinoma.- Malignant Adults 1.Torsion of the Testis and Appendages.- patients.- Monitoring myocardial dysfunction as mesothelioma.- Cancer of other origin 2.Inflammation and other Disorders.- Imaging Acute part of sepsis management.- The lung in multi- Scrotal Pain in Children.- Painless Scrotal Lumps: organ failure.- Pathogens in severe sepsis. New Fields of interest Classification and Clinics.- Painless Scrotal Lumps: paradigms for gram positive treatment.- Pathogens Pathology; Oncology; Internal Medicine; Medical Current Therapeutic Approach[..] in severe sepsis. 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A.Y. Elzouki, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia; H.A. I. Di Carlo, University of Catania, Italy; R. Biffi, Istituto Europeo di A. Mijovic, Kings College London, UK Harfi, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia; H. Nazer, Oncologia, Milano, Italy (Eds.) Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia; W. Oh, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA; F.B. Stapleton, University of Transfusion Medicine Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; R.J. Whitley, Totally Implantable Venous Access University of Alabama, School of Medicine, USA Devices Case Studies and Clinical Management The purpose of this clinical transfusion medicine Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics handbook is to take the reader through a variety of Since their first application in 1982, Totally clinical problems, each one likely to be encountered Implantable Venous Access Devices (TIVADs) in a busy teaching hospital. 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R. Hagengruber (Ed.) D.K. Chatterjee, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (Ed.) M. Brinkworth, University of Bradford, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, United Kingdom; F. Weinert, University of Bradford, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Emilie du Châtelet between Leibniz Encyclopedia of Global Justice United Kingdom (Eds.) and Newton The multi-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Evolution 2.0 to be published by Springer, along with Springer's Emilie du Châtelet was one of the most influential book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and woman philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her Natural Sciences publication venture toward a comprehensive writings on natural philosophy, physics, and coverage of this timely topic. The Encyclopedia is mechanics had a decisive impact on important These essays by leading philosophers and scientists an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative scientific debates of the 18th century. Particularly, focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship she took an innovative and outstanding position Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the related to issues of global justice, and edited and in the controversy between Newton and Leibniz, challenges they raise as well as open problems. advised by leading scholars from around the world. one of the fundamental scientific discourses of This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it The wide-ranging entries present the latest ideas that time.The contributions in this volume focus addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory on this complex subject by authors who are at the on this "Leibnitian turn". They analyze the nature in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of cutting edge of inquiry. The Encyclopedia will set and motivation of Emilie du Châtelet's synthesis biology, in the social sciences and humanities; the tone and direction of this increasingly important of Newtonian and Leibnitian philosophy. Apart furthermore it considers recent challenges to, area of scholarship for years to come. The entries will from the Institutions Physiques they deal with and extensions of, Neo-Darwinism. The essays number around a thousand and will consist of essays Emilie du Châtelet's annotated translation of Isaac demonstrate that Darwinism is an evolving of 300 to 3000 words. The inclusion and length of Newton's Principia.The chapters presented here paradigm, with a sphere of influence far greater than entries are based on their significance to the topic of collectively demonstrate that her work was an even Darwin is likely to have imagined when he global justice, regardless of their importance in other essential contribution to the mediation between published ‘On the Origin of Species’ in 1859. areas. empiricist and rationalist positions in the history of science. Features Features These essays by leading philosophers and scientists The multi-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Features focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern to be published by Springer, along with Springer's Emilie du Châtelet was one of the most influential Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major woman philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her challenges they raise as well as open problems. publication venture toward a comprehensive writings on natural philosophy, physics, and This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it coverage of this timely topic. The Encyclopedia is mechanics had a decisive impact on important addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative scientific debates of the 18th century. Particularly, in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship she took an innovative and outstanding position biology, in the social sciences and humanities; related to issues of global justice, [..] in the controversy between Newton and Leibniz, furthermore it considers [..] one of the fundamental scientific discourses of that Contents time.The [..] Contents Concepts/Theories.- Basic Needs.- Capabilities Introduction. I. Darwinism in Approaches to the Ethics.- Environmental Justice.- Retribution.- Social Contents Mind. The Embodiment of Mind.- Depression: Contract.- Persons/Thinkers.- Arendt, Hannah.- Emilie Du Châtelet between Leibniz and An Evolutionary Adaptation Organised around Habermas, Jürgen.- Laozi.- Rawls, John.- Sen, Newton: The Transformation of Metaphysics, R. the Third Ventricle.- Does Depression need an Amartya.- Institutions/Organizations.- European Hagengruber.- Maupertuis’ Lettre sur la comète, Evolutionary Explanation? A Darwinian Account Union (EU).- High Road for Human Rights.- H. Hecht.- Between Newton and Leibniz: Emilie of Self and Free Will.- The Problem of Darwinizing International Criminal Court (ICC).- The Pax du Châtelet and Samuel Clarke, S. Hutton.- “Sancti Culture (or Memes as the new Phlogiston).- Natura Foundation.- The World Bank.- Trends/ Bernoulli orate pro nobis”. Emilie du Châtelet’s II. 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But on the informal logic approach to argument analysis Features also in more recent phenomenological research and evaluation and on critical thinking, and a This book presents an extended dialogue in essay we find projects concentrated systematically on founder and editor of the journal Informal Logic. form between specialists in the work of Moses psychoanalysis[..] Blair is widely recognized among the leaders in the Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in field for contributing formative ideas to the [..] related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century Features thought. The first group of contributors explores The present anthology seeks to give an overview Contents themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, of the different approaches to establish a relation Preface and acknowledgements; J. Anthony presenting both their internal argumentative between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Blair.- Introduction: Christopher W. 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Genetic Traits and Cosmology; Astrophysics and Astroparticles and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives; Causal Explanation, Robert Northcott.- Part III: David Reidy.- Chapter III Reconsidering Realism Developmental Explanations of Behavior.-5. From Target groups on Rights; William E. Scheuerman.- PART II The Cell-Surface Receptors to Higher Learning: A Whole Professional/practitioner Validit-(ies) of Human Rights.- Chapter IV The World of Experience, Karola Stotz and Colin Allen.- Concept of Human Dignity and the Realistic Utopia Type of publication 6.[..] of Human Rights; Jürgen Habermas.- Chapter V The Proceedings Justification of Human Rights and[..] Fields of interest Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Science; Due: December 15, 2011 Fields of interest Behavioural Sciences; Human Genetics; Biological Philosophy of Law; Political Science, general; Public Psychology International Law; Political Philosophy; Ethics 2011. 262 p. 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S. Malace, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; R. Ent, Jefferson S. Scherer, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, P. Teichmann, Technische Universität München, Germany Lab, Newport News, VA, USA; W. Melnitchouk, Jefferson Germany; M.R. Schindler, The George Washington University, Laboratory, Newport News, VA, USA; M.I. Niculescu, James Washington, DC, USA Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA (Eds.) Adiabatic Logic
A Primer for Chiral Perturbation Future Trend and System Level Perspective 3rd International Workshop on Theory Nucleon Structure at Large Bjorken Adiabatic logic is a potential successor for static CMOS circuit design when it comes to ultra-low- X Chiral Perturbation Theory, as effective field power energy consumption. Future development theory, is a commonly accepted and well like the evolutionary shrinking of the minimum feature size as well as revolutionary novel transistor These proceedings will be of interest to researchers established working tool, approximating quantum concepts will change the gate level savings gained in nuclear and high-energy physics and graduate chromodynamics at energies well below typical by adiabatic logic. In addition, the impact of students. This workshop focused on the latest hadron masses.This volume, based on a number of worsening degradation effects has to be considered developments in the study of the quark structure lectures and supplemented with additional material, in the design of adiabatic circuits. The impact of of the nucleon at large Bjorken x, usually called provides a pedagogical introduction for graduate the technology trends on the figures of merit of the valence region. Its main purpose was to bring students and newcomers entering the field from adiabatic logic, energy saving potential and optimum together experts for an in-depth and critical review related areas of nuclear and particle physics. Starting operating frequency, are investigated, as well as of recent advancements in this field of research. This with the the Lagrangian of the strong interactions degradation related issues. Adiabatic logic benefits was particularly important in view of the upcoming and general symmetry principles, the basic concepts from future devices, is not susceptible to Hot Carrier energy upgrade of Jefferson Lab whose research of Chiral Perturbation Theory in the mesonic and Injection, and shows less impact of Bias Temperature program will continue to further our understanding baryonic sectors are developed. The application of Instability than static CMOS circuits. Major interest of the inner structure of the nucleon. these concepts is then illustrated with a number of examples. A large number of exercises (81, with also lies on the efficient generation of the applied Features complete solutions) are included to familiarize the power-clock signal. This oscillating power supply These proceedings will be of interest to researchers reader with helpful calculational techniques. can be used to save energy in short idle times by in nuclear and high-energy physics and graduate disconnecting circuits. An efficient way to[..] students. This workshop focused on the latest Features Features developments in the study of the quark structure Chiral Perturbation Theory, as effective field Adiabatic logic is a potential successor for static of the nucleon at large Bjorken x, usually called theory, is a commonly accepted and well CMOS circuit design when it comes to ultra-low- the valence region. Its main purpose was to bring established working tool, approximating quantum power energy consumption. Future development together experts for an in-depth and critical review chromodynamics at energies well below typical like the evolutionary shrinking of the minimum of recent advancements in this field of research. This hadron masses.This volume, based on a number of feature size as well as revolutionary novel transistor was [..] lectures and supplemented with additional material, provides a pedagogical introduction for graduate concepts will change the gate level savings gained by Fields of interest students and newcomers entering the field from adiabatic logic. In addition, the impact of worsening Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons related areas of nuclear [..] degradation effects has to be considered in the design [..] Target groups Contents Research Quantum Chromodynamics and Chiral Symmetry.- Contents Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Goldstone 1 Introduction. 2 Fundamentals of Adiabatic Logic. 3 Type of publication Theorem.- Chiral Perturbation Theory for Future trend in Adiabatic Logic. 4 Generation of the Proceedings Mesons.- Chiral Perturbation Theory for Bryons.- power-clock. 5 Power-Clock Gating. 6 Arithmetic Applications and Outlook.- Pauli and Dirac structures in Adiabatic Logic. 7 Measurement results of an adiabatic FIR filter. 8 Conclusions. Due: November 11, 2011 Matrices.- Functionals and Local Functional Derivatives.- Solutions to Exercises.- Index. Fields of interest 2011. 234 p. 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D.L. Hemmick, Berlin, MD, USA; A.M. Shakur, Salisbury University, S. Klein, Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology R. Kittler, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia; M. Kocifaj, Slovak MD, USA RWTH, Aachen, Germany Academy of Sciences, Slovakia; S. Darula, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Bell's Theorem and Quantum Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Realism Scattering Daylight Science and Daylighting Technology Reassessment in Light of the Schrödinger Paradox Mellin Moments of Heavy Flavor Contributions to F2(x,Q^2) at NNLO Quantum theory presents a strange picture of Sunlight profoundly influences the Earth's the world, offering no real account of physical The production of heavy quarks in high-energy atmosphere and biosphere. Nature fuels the properties apart from observation. Neils Bohr felt experiments offers a rich field to study, both evolution of all living things, their visual systems, that this reflected a core truth of nature: "There experimentally and theoretically. Due to the and the manner in which they adapt, accommodate, is no quantum world. There is only an abstract additional quark mass, the description of these and habituate.Sun luminance measurements serve mathematical description." Among the most processes in the framework of perturbative QCD is as data to calculate typical changes in the daily, significant developments since Bohr’s day has much more demanding than it is for those involving monthly, and annual variability characteristics of been the theorem of John S. Bell. It is important only massless partons. In the last two decades, a daylight. Climate-based sky luminance patterns to consider whether Bell’s analysis supports such large amount of precision data has been collected are used as models in predicting daylighting a denial of microrealism. In this book, we evaluate by the deep inelastic HERA experiment. In order to calculation and computer programs applied in the situation in terms of an early work of Erwin make full use of these data, a more precise theoretical architecture and building design. Historically, Schrödinger. Doing so, we see how Bell’s theorem is description of charm quark production in deep daylight science and daylighting technology has conceptually related to the Conway and Kochen Free inelastic scattering is needed. This work deals with prioritized photometric methods of measurements, Will theorem and also to all the major anti-realism the first calculation of fixed moments of the NNLO calculation, and graphical tools aimed at predicting efforts. It is easy to show that none of these analyses heavy flavor corrections to the proton structure or evaluating the daylighting of architectural imply the impossibility of objective realism. We function F2 in the limit of a small charm-quark design alternatives.However, due to a heightened find that Schrödinger’s work leads to the derivation mass. The correct treatment of these terms will awareness of general health and well-being, sunlight of a new series of theoretical proofs and potential allow not only a more precise analysis of the HERA exposure and freedom from visual discomfort while experiments, each involving “entanglement,” the link data, but starting from there also a more precise undertaking visual tasks are now equally prioritized. between particles in some quantum systems.. determination of the parton distribution functions Therefore, in order to assure optimal environmental and the strong coupling constant, which is an quality, daylighting technology must[..] Features essential input for LHC[..] Quantum theory presents a strange picture of Features the world, offering no real account of physical Features Sunlight profoundly influences the Earth's properties apart from observation. Neils Bohr felt The production of heavy quarks in high-energy atmosphere and biosphere. Nature fuels the that this reflected a core truth of nature: "There experiments offers a rich field to study, both evolution of all living things, their visual systems, is no quantum world. There is only an abstract experimentally and theoretically. Due to the and the manner in which they adapt, accommodate, mathematical description." Among the most additional quark mass, the description of these and habituate.Sun luminance measurements serve significant developments since Bohr’s day has processes in the framework of perturbative QCD is as data to calculate typical changes in the daily, been the theorem of John S. Bell. It is important to much more demanding than it is for those involving monthly, and annual variability characteristics of consider whether Bell’s [..] only massless partons. In the last two decades, a large daylight. Climate-based sky luminance patterns are amount of precision data has been collected by the used as models [..] Fields of interest deep inelastic [..] Quantum Physics; Atomic, Molecular, Optical Contents and Plasma Physics; History and Philosophical Contents Preface.- Introduction.- Short historical review Foundations of Physics Deeply Inelastic Scattering.- Heavy Quark of daylight utilisation by living creatures.- Production in DIS.- Renormalization of Composite Daylight photometry: history, principles and Target groups Operator Matrix Elements.- Representation in empirical development.- Propagation of light in Research Different Renormalization Schemes.- Calculation the atmospheric environment.- Sky luminance of the Massive Operator Matrix Elements up to characteristics.- Possibilities to simulate year- Type of publication O(as2 ε) .- Calculation of Moments at O(a33).- round changes of the local daylight climate.- Brief Heavy Flavor Corrections to Polarized Deep- Fundamental principles for daylight calculation Inelastic Scattering.- Heavy Flavor Contributions methods.- Analytical calculation methods and tools Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days to Transversity.- First Steps Towards a Calculation for the design of un-glazed apertures.- Daylight of Aij(3) for all Moments.- Conclusions.- methods and tools to design glazed windows and Conventions.- Feynman Rules.- Special Functions.- skylights.- Modelling daylight distribution in 2012. 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N. Boelaert, Lund University, Sweden A. Masaaki, Gunma University, Kiryu-city, Japan; K. Masanori, Keio Y.K. Rybin, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia University, Yokohama, Japan (Eds.) Dijet Angular Distributions in Electronic Devices for Analog Signal Proton-Proton Collisions Diophantine Analysis and Related Processing Fields 2011: DARF - 2011 At √s = 7 TeV and √s = 14 TeV Electronic Devices for Analog Signal Processing This thesis is based on the first data from the Large The book covers the topics mainly from analytic is intended for engineers and post graduates and Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Its theme can number theory; its scope ranges from Diophantine considers electronic devices applied to process be described as the classical Rutherford scattering approximations and equations, together with their analog signals in instrument making, automation, experiment adapted to the LHC: measurement of applications, and transcendence theory to various measurements, and other branches of technology. scattering angles to search for new physics and zeta functions. The book is especially useful for the They perform various transformations of electrical substructure. At the LHC, colliding quarks and front researchers and graduate students who are signals: scaling, integration, logarithming, etc. The gluons exit the proton collisions as collimated interested in number theory and its relevant areas. need in their deeper study is caused, on the one particle showers, or jets. The thesis presents studies hand, by the extension of the forms of the input of the scattering angles of these jets. It includes a Features signal and increasing accuracy and performance of phenomenological study at the LHC design energy The book covers the topics mainly from analytic such devices, and on the other hand, new devices of 14 TeV, where a model of so-called large extra number theory; its scope ranges from Diophantine constantly emerge and are already widely used in dimensions is used as a benchmark process for the approximations and equations, together with their practice, but no information about them are written sensitivity to new physics. The experimental result applications, and transcendence theory to various in books on electronics. The basic approach of is the first measurement, made in 2010, by ATLAS, zeta functions. The book is especially useful for the presenting the material in Electronic Devices for operating at the LHC start-up energy of 7 TeV. The front researchers and graduate students who are Analog Signal Processing can be formulated as result is compatible with the Standard Model and interested in number theory and its relevant areas. follows: the study with help from self-education. demonstrates how well the physics and the apparatus While divided into seven chapters, each chapter Fields of interest are understood. The first data is a tiny fraction of contains theoretical material, examples of practical Mathematical Methods in Physics; Mathematical what will be accumulated in the coming years, and problems, questions and tests. The most difficult Physics; Number Theory this study has set the stage for performing these[..] questions are marked by a[..] Target groups Features Features Research This thesis is based on the first data from the Large Electronic Devices for Analog Signal Processing Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Its theme can Type of publication is intended for engineers and post graduates and be described as the classical Rutherford scattering Proceedings considers electronic devices applied to process experiment adapted to the LHC: measurement of analog signals in instrument making, automation, scattering angles to search for new physics and measurements, and other branches of technology. substructure. At the LHC, colliding quarks and Due: October 21, 2011 They perform various transformations of electrical gluons exit the proton collisions as collimated signals: scaling, integration, logarithming, etc. The particle showers, or jets. The thesis presents studies 2011. 140 p. (Mathematical and Statistical Physics, Vol. need in their deeper study is caused, on the one of the [..] 1385) Softcover hand, [..]
Contents 104,95 € Contents Introduction.- Introduction to QCD and Collider ISBN 978-0-7354-0947-7 Introduction.- Chapter 1. Modern Operational Physics.- NLO Monte Carlo Techniques.- Dijet Amplifiers.- Chapter 2. Functional Transformations Physics at Colliders.- Gravitational Scattering and of Signals.- Chapter 3. Linear Functional Units Black Holes in Large Extra Dimensions.- The ATLAS In Operational Amplifiers.- Chapter 4. Nonlinear Experiment.- Jet Reconstruction.- Jet Reconstruction Devices In Op-Amps.- Chapter 5. Sine Wave with 2010 ATLAS Data.- Dijet Angular Distributions Oscillators.- Chapter 6. Pulse Oscillators.- at √s = 14 TeV: A Phenomenology Study.- Preparing Chapter 7. Signal Conditioners.- Conclusions.- ATLAS for the Measurement of Dijet Angular Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Glossary.- Index.- List of Distributions at √s = 7 TeV.- Measurement of Dijet Abbreviations.- List of Parameters. Angular Distributions by ATLAS.- Conclusions and Outlook. Fields of interest Electronic Circuits and Devices; Circuits and Fields of interest Systems; Solid State Physics; Signal, Image and Particle and Nuclear Physics; Elementary Particles, Speech Processing Quantum Field Theory; Cosmology Target groups Target groups Research Research Type of publication Type of publication Monograph Monograph Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days
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F. Scheck, University Mainz, Germany C.R. Kitchin, Essex, UK K. Guseva, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Electroweak and Strong Exoplanets Formation and Cooperative
Interactions Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds Behaviour of Protein Complexes on the Cell Membrane Phenomenology, Concepts, Models Exoplanets: Finding, Exploring, and Understanding Alien Worlds probes the basis for possible answers Electroweak and Strong Interaction: to the fundamentals questions asked about these With the aim of providing a deeper insight into Phenomenology, Concepts, Models, begins with planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. This book possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, relativistic quantum mechanics and some quantum examines what such planets might be like, where this thesis presents new approaches to describe field theory which lay the foundation for the rest of they are, and how we find them.Until around ten the process of self-assembly and the impact of the text. The phenomenology and the physics of the years ago, the only planets that we knew about spatial organization on the function of membrane fundamental interactions are emphasized through a were within the Solar System. The first genuine proteins, from a statistical physics point of view. It detailed discussion of the empirical fundamentals of planet beyond the confines of the Solar System was focuses on three important scenarios: the assembly unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak discovered only 1988. Since then another 350 or so of membrane proteins, the collective response of interactions. The principles of local gauge theories exoplanets have been detected by various methods, mechanosensitive channels and the function of the are described both in a heuristic and a geometric and most of these haven been found in the last ten twin arginine translocation (Tat) system. Using framework. The minimal standard model of the years. Although many more exoplanets discoveries methods from equilibrium and non-equilibrium fundamental interactions is developed in detail and may be expected to occur even as this book is being statistical mechanics, general conclusions were characteristic applications are worked out. Possible read, a large enough data set is now available to drawn that demonstrate the importance of the signals of physics beyond that model, notably in form the basis for an informed general account of protein-protein interactions. Namely, in the first the physics of neutrinos are also discussed. Among exoplanets.The topic hence is an extremely "hot" part a general aggregation dynamics model is the applications scattering on nucleons and on one - all the more so because the recently launched formulated, and used to show that fragmentation nuclei provide salient examples. Numerous exercises Kepler spacecraft should soon start uncovering many crucially affects the efficiency of the self-assembly with solutions make the text suitable for advanced more exoplanets, some perhaps comparable with the process of proteins. In the second part, by mapping courses or individual study. This completely updated Earth (and[..] the membrane-mediated forces into a simplified revised new edition contains an enlarged chapter on many-body system, the dynamic and equilibrium quantum[..] Features behaviour of interacting[..] Since 1992 there has been an explosion in the Features discovery of planets orbiting stars other than the Features Electroweak and Strong Interaction: Sun. There are now around 600 alien planets that With the aim of providing a deeper insight into Phenomenology, Concepts, Models, begins with we know about and that number is likely to break possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, relativistic quantum mechanics and some quantum through the 1,000 ‘barrier’ within a couple of years. this thesis presents new approaches to describe the field theory which lay the foundation for the rest of The recent launch of the Kepler space telescope process of self-assembly and the impact of spatial the text. The phenomenology and the physics of the specifically to look for new worlds opens the organization on the function of membrane proteins, fundamental interactions are emphasized through a prospect of hundreds, maybe thousands, of further from a statistical physics point of view. It focuses detailed discussion of the empirical fundamentals of exoplanets being [..] on three important scenarios: the assembly of unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak membrane proteins, the collective response of [..] interactions. The [..] Contents Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Because Contents Contents WE live on one!: Why planets and exoplanets are Introduction.- The Role of Fragmentation on the Fermion Fields and their Properties.- important.- Chapter 2: A quick tour of the exoplanet Formation of Homomeric Protein Complexes.- Electromagnetic Processes and Interactions.- Weak menagerie.- Chapter 3: An exoplanet retrospective.- Collective Response of Self-organised Clusters Interactions and the Standard Model of Strong and Chapter 4: In the beginning: the first exoplanet of Mechanosensitive Channels.- Assembly and Electroweak Interactions.- Beyond the Minimal discoveries.- Chapter 5: On the track of alien planets: Fragmentation of Tat Pores.- Conclusion. Standard Model.- Scattering of Strongly Interacting The radial velocity or Doppler method.- Chapter 6: Particles on Nuclei.- Hadronic Atoms.- Quantum On the track of alien planets: The transit method.- Fields of interest Chromodynamics.- Neutrino Physics.- Appendix Chapter 7: On the track of alien planets: direct Membranes; Membrane Biology; Statistical Physics, A. Lorentz Invariant Distributions.- Appendix B. imaging and observation.- Chapter 8: On the track of Dynamical Systems and Complexity; Polymer S-Matrix, Cross Sections, Decay Probabilities.- alien planets: Gravitational microlensing.- Chapter 9: Sciences Appendix C1. Some Feynman Rules for Quantum On the track of alien[..] Electrodynamics of Spin-1/2 Particles f+-.- Appendix Target groups C2. Traces. Appendix D. The Group SU(3).- Fields of interest Research Appendix E. 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M. Capitelli, University of Bari, Italy; G. Colonna, IMIP CNR, Bari, Y. Baryshev, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; P. Teerikorpi, R.W. Phillips, Fort Collins, CO, USA Italy; A. D'Angola, University of Basilicata, Italy University of Turku, Piikkiö, Finland Grappling with Gravity Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Fundamental Questions of Practical Chemical Physics Cosmology How Will Life Adapt to Living in Space? Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological Thermodynamics Exploring the Realm of Galaxies changes that will occur in humans and the plants and Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, animals that accompany humans as we move to new - Thermodynamics develops basic and advanced and university students) through central questions worlds, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or concepts of plasma thermodynamics from both of Practical Cosmology, a term used by the late settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or classical and statistical points of view.After a Allan Sandage to denote the modern scientific planets. This book focuses on the biomedical aspects, refreshment of classical thermodynamics applied to endeavor to find the cosmological model best while not ignoring other life-changing influences the dissociation and ionization regimes, the book describing the universe of galaxies, its geometry, of space living. For example, what happens to invites the reader to discover the role of electronic size, age, and matter composition. The authors draw people physiologically in the microgravity of excitation in affecting the properties of plasmas, on their personal experience in astrophysics and space, where weight and the direction "up" become a topic often overlooked by the thermal plasma cosmology to explain key concepts of cosmology, meaningless? Adapting to microgravity represents community.Particular attention is devoted to the both observational and theoretical, and to highlight the greatest environmental challenge that life will problem of the divergence of the partition function several items which give cosmology its special have encountered since our ancestors moved from of atomic species and the state-to-state approach character. These highlighted items are: Ideosyncratic the seas to solid Earth. Away from Earth the human for calculating the partition function of diatomic features of the “cosmic laboratory”, Malmquist bias body will begin almost immediately to adapt and and polyatomic molecules. The limit of ideal gas in the determination of cosmic distances, Theory change, to be able to function in these strange approximation is also discussed, by introducing of gravitation as a cornerstone of cosmological environments. As a person adapts in space he or she Debye-Huckel and virial corrections.Throughout the models, Crucial tests for checking the reality of space will become less fit to live on Earth. book, worked examples are given in order to clarify expansion, Methods of analyzing the structures Features concepts and mathematical approaches.This book of the universe as mapped by galaxies, Usefulness Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological is a first of a series of three books to be published of fractals as a model to describe the large-scale changes that will occur in humans and the plants by the authors on fundamental aspects of plasma structure and new cosmological physics inherent in and animals that accompany humans as we move chemical physics. The[..] the Friedmann[..] to new worlds, whether it be to a colony in the Features Features emptiness of space or settlements on the moon, Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics This book guides readers (astronomers, physicists, Mars, or other moons or planets. This book focuses - Thermodynamics develops basic and advanced and university students) through central questions on the biomedical aspects, while not ignoring other concepts of plasma thermodynamics from both of Practical Cosmology, a term used by the late Allan life-changing influences of space living. For example, classical and statistical points of view.After a Sandage to denote the modern scientific endeavor what [..] refreshment of classical thermodynamics applied to to find the cosmological model best describing the Contents the dissociation and ionization regimes, the book universe of galaxies, its geometry, size, age, and Part I: Space Here We Come.- Chapter 1: A Great invites the reader to discover the role of electronic matter composition. The authors draw on their New Adventure.- Chapter 2: The Long Road to Space excitation in affecting the properties of plasmas, a [..] personal experience in astrophysics and cosmology Flight.- Chapter 3: Why Go to Space?.- Chapter to [..] Contents 4: Change and Prosper.- Chapter 5: Everything Classical Thermodynamics.- Two and Three Level Contents is Topsy-Turvy.- Chapter 6: Tomorrow's Tourist Systems.- Statistical Thermodynamics.- Atomic Chapter 1 The golden age of cosmological Adventures.- Part II: Life in Space.- Chapter 7: Partition Function.- Molecular Partition Function.- physics.- Chapter 2 Distance measurement and Taking Your Body to Space.- Chapter 8: Behavior in Real Effects: I. Debye-Hückel.- Real Effects: II. cosmography.- Chapter 3 Cosmic distances and Space.- Chapter 9: An Essential Activity.- Part III: Virial Corrections.- Electronic Excitation.- Multi- selection biases.- Chapter 4 Cosmological redshift Preparing for the Future.- Chapter 10: Living Away Temperature Thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics and the distance scale.- Chapter 5 Gravitational from Earth.- Chapter 11: Taking the Plow to Mars.- of Planetary Plasmas.- Appendix. physics for cosmic scales.- Chapter 6 Predictions of Chapter 12: Speculations.- Appendix A.- Appendix gravity theories.- Chapter 7 The Friedmann model.- B.- Acronyms.- Glossary.- Index. Fields of interest Chapter 8 Classical observational tests of world Fields of interest Plasma Physics; Physical Chemistry; models.- Chapter 9 Constructing universes: a gallery Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Popular Thermodynamics; Statistical Physics, Dynamical of ideas.- Chapter 10 Large-scale structure: methods Science in Astronomy; Aerospace Technology and Systems and Complexity of analysis.- Chapter 11 The inhomogeneous galaxy Astronautics; Planetology universe: observational results.- Chapter 12 [..] Target groups Target groups Research Fields of interest Popular/general Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology Type of publication Type of publication Monograph Target groups Popular science Research Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Type of publication Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 business days Monograph 2012. XVII, 308 p. 110 illus., 41 in color. (Springer 2012. XI, 271 p. 113 illus., 102 in color. 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C. Grupen, Universität Siegen; I. Buvat, IMNC, Campus d'Orsay, D.-W. Kim, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophy., H. Sagawa, University of Tokyo, Japan; Y. Kawasaki, Advanced France (Eds.) Cambridge, MA, USA; S. Pellegrini, Università di Bologna, Italy Science Institute RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan; T. Sako, Nagoya (Eds.) University, Aichi, Japan; M. Takeda, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; Y. Tsunesada, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Handbook of Particle Detection and (Eds.) Imaging Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies International Symposium on the The handbook centers on detection techniques in Recent Progress of Ultra-High the field of particle physics, medical imaging and Based on a number of new discoveries resulting Energy Cosmic Ray Observation related subjects. 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V. Florinski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA; J. R. Jayakumar, General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA J. Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; S. Fu, Tsinghua Heerikhuisen, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA; G.P. University, Beijing, China (Eds.) Zank, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA; D.L. Gallagher, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA (Eds.) Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics Recent Progresses in Fluid Partially Ionized Plasmas Dynamics Research: Charming the Cosmic Snake Throughout the Cosmos - Proceeding of the Sixth International Conference on Fluid Proceedings of the 2010 Huntsville The Nordic mythological Cosmic Serpent, Mechanics Ouroboros, is said to be coiled in the depths of the Workshop sea, surrounding the Earth with its tail in its mouth. This proceedings would be of interest to researchers In physics, this snake is a metaphor for the Universe, in Fluid Mechanics. 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I. McNulty, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA; C. Eyberger, M.A. Harith, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt (Ed.) W. Zwerger, Technische Universität München, Garching, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA; B. Lai, Argonne National Germany (Ed.) Laboratory, IL, USA (Eds.) The 8th International Conference on Laser Applications - ICLA 2011 The BCS-BEC Crossover and the The 10th International Conference Unitary Fermi Gas on X-Ray Microscopy These proceedings will be of interest to scientists and researchers dealing with laser applications generally, Recent experimental and theoretical progress has This conference proceedings would be of interest and those in the fields of both environmental elucidated the tunable crossover, in ultracold Fermi to researchers and students in universities, applications of lasers and biomedical applications gases, from BCS-type superconductors to BEC- national laboratories, synchrotron and x-ray laser of lasers. 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R. De Laet, Bekkevoort, Belgium S. Miller, University College London, UK D.N. Chigrin, University of Wuppertal, Germany (Ed.)
The Casual Sky Observer's Guide The Chemical Cosmos The Fourth International Workshop
Stargazing with Binoculars and Small Telescopes A Guided Tour on Theoretical and Computational Nanophotonics: The Casual Sky Observer's Pocket Guide offers If you have ever wondered how we get from the an observing program for occasional amateur awesome impersonality of the Big Bang universe to TaCoNa-Photonics 2011 observers looking for some quick, fun astronomy the point where living creatures can start to form, adventures under the stars. In the real world, where and evolve into beings like you, your friends and This proceedings would be of interest to Active time for observing is limited, the weather is seldom your family, wonder no more. Steve Miller provides researchers, doctoral and postgraduate students perfect, and expensive equipment is not an option, us with a tour through the chemical evolution of the in the field of optics and photonics of structured amateur astronomy may not be seen as a worthwhile universe, from the formation of the first molecules artificial materials. TaCoNa-Photonics' goal is to activity. However, portable and quick-to-set-up all the way to the chemicals required for life to provide a forum where theoreticians and specialists instruments are available. A pair of binoculars or a evolve. Using a simple Hydrogen molecule – known in numerical methods from all branches of physics, small telescope fills the bill. And the way to make as H-three-plus - as a guide, he takes us on a journey engineering sciences and mathematics have a the most of these instruments is described in the that starts with the birth of the first stars, and how, chance to discuss new challenges, new results and Casual Sky Observer's Pocket Guide. Not only does in dying, they pour their hearts out into enriching breakthroughs in nano-photonics. Our audience the book feature the best and brightest showpieces of the universe in which we live. 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M. Beech, University of Regina, ON, Canada J. Unterberger, Université Henri Poincaré , Vandoeuvre-les- K. Mainzer, Technische Universität München, Germany; L. Chua, Nancy, France; C. Roger, Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne Cedex, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA France The Physics of Invisibility The Universe as Automaton A Story of Light and Deception The Schrödinger-Virasoro Algebra From Simplicity and Symmetry to Complexity The ability is see is fundamental to our very Mathematical structure and dynamical Schrödinger existence. How true our perceptions really are symmetries This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy depends upon many factors, and not least is our and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader This monograph provides the first up-to-date and understanding of what light is and how it interacts with new ideas and new conceptual developments self-contained presentation of a recently discovered with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of cellular automata. Going beyond the numerical mathematical structure—the Schrödinger- of light recording instruments, never lies, and in experiments of Steven Wolfram, it is argued that Virasoro algebra. Just as Poincaré invariance or the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this cellular automata must be considered complex conformal (Virasoro) invariance play a key rôle in might well have been true. But in this modern era, dynamical systems in their own right, requiring understanding, respectively, elementary particles with electronic cameras and computer software, it is appropriate analytical models in order to find precise and two-dimensional equilibrium statistical physics, often safe to assume that the camera always lies. The answers and predictions in the universe of cellular this algebra of non-relativistic conformal symmetries advertising images that bombard our every waking automata.Indeed, eventually we have to ask whether may be expected to apply itself naturally to the moment are manipulated in shape, profile, color, cellular automata can be considered models of the study of some models of non-equilibrium statistical and form. In this new era, light can be manipulated real world and, conversely, whether there are limits physics, or more specifically in the context of recent with metamaterials to make one object look like to our modern approach of attributing the world, developments related to the non-relativistic AdS/ another or even cause that objects to vanish, literally and the universe for that matter, essentially a digital CFT correspondence. The study of the structure before our eyes; not only can the image we see be reality. of this infinite-dimensional Lie algebra touches manipulated, but so can the light itself. upon topics as various as statistical physics, vertex Features Features algebras, Poisson geometry, integrable systems and This booklet is an essay at the interface of philosophy Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that, "any supergeometry as well as representation theory, the and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable cohomology of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, with new ideas and new conceptual developments from magic." These words most certainly ring true and the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators. of cellular automata. Going beyond the numerical with respect to invisibility cloaking devices. At work experiments of Steven Wolfram, it is argued that Features is the magic of science, of course. The technology to cellular automata must be considered complex This monograph provides the first up-to-date and make an object simply disappear from view is now a dynamical systems in their own right, requiring self-contained presentation of a recently discovered reality.There is both great fear and great desire in the appropriate analytical models in order to find precise mathematical structure—the Schrödinger- thought of invisibility. Indeed, for [..] [..] Virasoro algebra. Just as Poincaré invariance or Contents conformal (Virasoro) invariance play a key role in Contents Introduction.- Chapter 1: Of All Things Visible understanding, respectively, elementary particles Introduction: Leibniz,Turing Zuse, and Beyond.- and Invisible.- Chapter 2: A Very Brief History of and two-dimensional equilibrium statistical physics, Simplicity in the Unviverse of Cellular Automata.- Light.- Chapter 3: Mirror Tricks, the Art of Cloaking this algebra of non-relativistic conformal symmetries Complexity in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- and Seeing the Impossible.- Chapter 4: Maxwell's may be [..] Symmetry in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Marvelous Waves.- Chapter 5: The Metamaterial Attractors in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Contents Revolution.- Afterword.- Appendices.- Index. Time in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Matter Introduction.- Geometric Definitions of SV.- Basic in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Life and Fields of interest Algebraic and Geometric Features.- Coadjoint Brain in the Universe of Cellular Automata.- Classical Electrodynamics, Wave Phenomena; Representaion.- Induced Representations and Verma Outlook: Is the Universe a Computer?. Popular Science; Optical and Electronic Materials Modules.- Coinduced Representations.- Vertex Representations.- Cohomology, Extensions and Fields of interest Target groups Deformations.- Action of sv on Schrödinger and Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Popular/general Dirac Operators.- Monodromy of Schrödinger Complexity; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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Today, more than one in four Specifically, it will have leading experts on specific cultivating an international worldview is crucial youth offenders is female, and researchers and age groups (Childhood to Adolescence, Young not only to professionals and researchers, but practitioners alike are quickly turning their attention Adulthood to Middle Age, and The Elderly) within more importantly, for professors and students of and resources to address this challenging situation. the cultural groups of interest (European-Americans, psychology as well. It is critically necessary for Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic- psychologists to learn from their colleagues who are Adaptation synthesizes what is known about Americans, and Native Americans) contribute a working in different cultural contexts in order to girls involved in delinquent behavior and their chapter covering current research on both positive develop the type of knowledge and psychological experiences at different points in the juvenile and negative functioning for each population. understanding of human behavior that will be justice system.This breakthrough volume adds to Each chapter will present basic demographic maximally useful to practitioners and researchers the understanding of this population by offering information, strengths that contribute to resilience, alike. This volume, Internationalizing the Psychology empirical analysis not only of how these behaviors and three significant challenges each group faces Curriculum in the United States, provides develop but also about what is being done to to maintaining mental health. Each chapter will information and resources to help psychology faculty intervene. Employing multiple theoretical models, then include an integrative section, where ideas are educate and train future generations of psychologists qualitative and quantitative data sources, law advanced about how the strengths of each group can within a much more international mindset and enforcement records, and insights across disciplines, be harnessed to address the challenges that group global perspective. Recognizing that cultural context leading scholars review causes and correlates; the faces. To conclude, each chapter will propose future are central to a true and accurate psychology, the roles of family and peers; psychological and legal directions for research which addresses integrative authors describes how cultural, economic, political, issues; policy changes resulting in more arrests of approaches to mental health for each group, and the and social factors in different countries frame young women; and evidence-based[..] implications that such[..] individual experience and affect the science and Features practice of psychology.[..] Features Traditionally, delinquent girls were considered Handbook of Race and Development in Mental Features an anomaly, a rare phenomenon attracting little Health Edward C. Chang and Christina A. Downey, Not long ago, psychology held that its Western- scholarly notice. Today, more than one in four editors The early decades of psychology were based tenets were universal truths applicable youth offenders is female, and researchers and concerned with pathology: its causes, identification, throughout the world. From this early naïve practitioners alike are quickly turning their attention and treatment. Eventually this foundation expanded assumption, the discipline has evolved to realize the and resources to address this challenging situation. to include positive aspects of human behavior, such need for cross-cultural competence in both practice Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and as intelligence, creativity, and love. But even as and research. Today, commitment to professional Adaptation synthesizes what is known about girls positive psychology grew [..] ethics and scientific advancement is driving the involved [..] adaptation of theories, models, and therapies to Contents Contents create a more [..] Introduction.- Integrating Positive Psychology and Preface: Delinquent Girls, Relationships, and Developmental Viewpoints into Cross-Cultural Contents Ordinary Magic; M.K. Underwood.- Section I. Mental Health.- II.- A Historical Perspective.- A Challenges of a Global Era.- History and Systems Setting the Stage.- Stability and Change in Girls’ History of Cross-Cultural Clinical Psychology, of Psychology.- Developmental Psychology.- Delinquency and the Gender Gap: Trends in and its Importance to Mental Health Today.- III.- Social Psychology.- Personality.- Testing and Violence and Alcohol Offending across Multiple European Americans.- Psychology of Children.- Assessment.- Gender and Psychology.- Clinical Sources of Evidence; J. Schwartz, D. Steffensmeier.- Psychology of Adults.- Psychology of Elderly.- Psychology.- Counseling Psychology.- Health Crossing Over: Girls at the Intersection of Juvenile IV.- African Americans.- Psychology of Children.- Psychology.- Industrial/Organizational Psychology.- Justice, Criminal Justice, and Child Welfare; J.L. Psychology of Adults.- Psychology of Elderly.- Ethnopolitical Psychology.- Professional Woolard.- Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: The V.- Asian Americans.- Psychology of Children.- Psychology.- Conclusion. Causes and Correlates of Girls’ Involvement; S.R. Psychology of Adults.- Psychology of Elderly.- VI.- Hawkins.- Section II. 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L.J. Kulcsár, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA; K.J. N. Tzifakis, University of Peleponnese, Corinth, Greece (Ed.) M.R. Haberfeld, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New Curtis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA (Eds.) York, NY, USA; C.A. Clarke, Alberta Solicitor General and Public Security, Edmonton, AB, Canada; D.L. Sheehan, Royal Canadian International Politics in Times of Mounted Police; INTERPOL, Lyon, France (Eds.) International Handbook of Rural Change Demography Police Organization and Training
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International dispatches by how these future development trajectories will vary Taken as a whole, this collection of essays offers a training practitioners, academics, and other experts according to local characteristics including, but not series of snapshots of different aspects, and from from the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, Hong limited to, population composition. The growing varying angles, of an international system in motion. Kong, and elsewhere emphasize blended education complexity of rural society is in part a product of methods, competency-building curricula, program significant international variations in population Features and policy development, and leadership concepts. trends, making this[..] There is every indication that the international These emerging paradigms and technologies, system is undergoing a period of significant coupled with a clear focus[..] Features transformation. 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More than two decades after Michael Rutter (1987) Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and With this book, Siegel, an internationally known published his summary of protective processes stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. demographer and gerontologist, has made a associated with resilience, researchers continue Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health to report definitional ambiguity in how to define set of dynamics that view rural areas as ‘translocal’ demography, and the demography and epidemiology and operationalize positive development under in the sense that they are ‘changing’ and ‘inter- of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of adversity. The problem has been partially the result connected’. Social transformations take place epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and of a dominant view of resilience as something in rural areas as the result of intense exchanges appears to be the first and only comprehensive individuals have, rather than as a process that between different people, settings and geographies. text on this subject now available. Drawing on a families, schools,communities and governments Accordingly, rural-urban but also rural-rural wide range of sciences in addition to demography, facilitate. Because resilience is related to the presence interrelations on international and national scales gerontology, and epidemiology, including medical of social risk factors, there is a need for an ecological are strongly contributing to rural change. Translocal sociology, biostatistics, public policy, bioethics, interpretation of the construct that acknowledges ruralism is exemplified through the analysis of and molecular biology, the author treats theoretical the importance of people’s interactions with their local and global migratory flows, the activities and applied issues, links methods and findings, environments. The Social Ecology of Resilience of rural firms in national and global arenas, the covers the material internationally, nationally, and provides evidence for this ecological understanding spread of different forms of transportation and locally, and while focusing on the elderly, treats of resilience in ways that help to resolve both dislocation, and the growing information society, the entire life course. The methods, materials, and definition and measurement problems. which enables rural spaces to be connected to the pespectives of demography and epidemiology are world and improves new ways of interconnection brought to bear on such topics as the prospects for Features and sociability practices. The book is structured into future increases in human longevity, the relative In a time of increasing exposure to personal two parts, which intertwine the dynamics of rural contribution of life style, environment, genetics, and psychological stress, as well as war, natural disasters, spaces. The[..] chance in[..] and economic upheaval, positive development under adversity—resilience—is meriting wider and deeper Features Features study. Despite this attention and over four decades’ Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and With this book, Siegel, an internationally known worth of robust literature, resilience remains difficult stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. demographer and gerontologist, has made a to define and even harder to measure. Taking the Against such a backdrop, this book seeks to unveil a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health view that resilience is a process to be [..] set of dynamics that view rural areas as ‘translocal’ demography, and the demography and epidemiology in the sense that they are ‘changing’ and ‘inter- of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of Contents connected’. Social transformations take place in epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and I. Introduction to the Theory.-Social Ecologies rural areas as the result of intense exchanges between appears to be the first and only comprehensive text and their Contribution to Resilience.-Resilience: different people, settings and geographies. [..] on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide Causal Pathways and Social Ecology.-Theory range of [..] and Measurement of Resilience: Views from Contents Development.-Resilience and Children's Work in 1: Translocal ruralism: mobility and connectivity Contents Brazil: Lesson from Physics for Psychology.-II. Five in European rural spaces: Charlotta Hedberg Preface and Acknowledgments .- Part I. Scope of Interviews.-An Interview with Macalane Malindi: and Renato Miguel do Carmo.- I:Linking nodes: Health Demography, Sources, and Quality of Data: The Impact of Education and Changing Social Policy people and networks connecting places: 2: Between 1. Introduction.- 2. Sources and Quality of Data for on Resilience During Apartheid and Post-Apartheid margimalisation and urbanisation: mobilities and Mortality and Health Studies.- Part II. Concepts and in South Africa.-An Interview with Bill Strickland: social change in Southern Portugal: Renato Miguel Measures of Mortality and Morbidity.- 3. Concepts How Community-based Adult Educational Facilities do Carmo and Sofia Santos.- 3: The ties that bind? and Basic Measures of Mortality.- 4. The Life Table.- can Lift People out of Poverty in Urban America.-An Spatial (im)mobilities and the transformation 5. Measures of Health Status, Functioning, and Use Interview[..] of rural-urban connections: Hendrike Rau.- 4: of Health Services.- Part III. Mortality and Morbidity 'The rural' intervening in the lives of internal and Considered Jointly and in Relation to Fertility, Fields of interest international migrants: migrants, biographies and Migration, and Population Age-Sex Structure.- 6. 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