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A 75 Breslin (Eds), Recent Trends and 75 Coyle (Eds), Artificial Intelligence and Developments in Social Software . Cognitive Science . AICS 2009 (LNAI 6206) 1 Abdulla (Ed), Heart Diseases in Children BlogTalk 2008 (LNISA 6045) 20 Cremers/Mauw, Operational Semantics and 75 Ando (Eds), Simulation, Modeling, and 33 Broom, Hydrogen Storage Materials Verification of Security Protocols Programming for Autonomous Robots . (Green Energy and Technology) (Information Security and Cryptography) SIMPAR 2010 (LNAI 6472) 43 Bruckner (Eds), Biomimetics – Materials, 45 Cross, Physics of Baseball & Softball 6 Aphasizhev (Ed), RNA and DNA Editing Structures and Processes (Biological and 17 Cruz-Uribe et al ., Weights, Extrapolation and (Methods in Molecular Biology 718) Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) the Theory of Rubio de Francia (Operator 76 Attanasi (Eds), Targets in Heterocyclic C Theory: Advances and Applications 215) Systems 57 Cumming, Spatial Resilience in Social- Ecological Systems 6 Ayed (Eds), p53 (Molecular Biology 34 Calero (Ed), Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Unit) Computer Games D B 34 Canetta (Eds), Digital Factory for Human- Oriented Production System 1 Dachman (Eds), Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy 17 Bahouri et al ., Fourier Analysis and Nonlinear
9 El-Baz (Eds), Multi Modality State-of-the-Art 69 Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and 67 Kempf (Eds), Planning Production and Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Research 25 Inventories in the Extended Enterprise Methodologies . Vol II 64 Hofmann/Belin, Supply Chain Finance (International Series in Operations Research 8 El-Baz (Eds), Multi Modality State-of-the-Art Solutions (SpringerBriefs in Business) & Management Sci 152) Medical Image Segmentation and 59 Hong (Eds), Landscape Ecology in Asian 37 Khan et al ., Virtual Manufacturing Registration Methodologies . Vol . I Cultures (Ecological Research Monographs) (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing) 21 Embley (Eds), Handbook of Conceptual 32 Hoogendoorn/Kasteren, Transportation
15 Matson (Ed), Social Behavior and Skills in 30 Pechan et al ., Safe or Not Safe 25 Serugendo (Eds), Self-organizing Software Children 61 Pegg (Eds), Polyamines (Methods in (Natural Computing Series) 46 Matsuoka (Eds), The Kaguya Mission to the Molecular Biology 720) 72 Settersten (Eds), Handbook of the Sociology Moon 65 Pellegrini, Corruption, Development and of Aging (Handbooks of Sociology and Social 24 Mazzola, Musical Performance the Environment Research) (Computational Music Science) 30 Peruzzini (Eds), Phosphorus Compounds 68 Sevdiren, Alternatives to Imprisonment in 70 McAlpine (Eds), Doctoral Education: Research (Catalysis by Metal Complexes 37) England and Wales, Germany and Turkey Based Strategies for Doctoral Students, 66 Piot-Lepetit (Eds), Methods to Analyse 76 Shen (Eds), Web-Age Information Manage- Supervisors and Administrators Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility ment . WAIM 2010 Workshops (LNISA 6185) 73 McFee, Artistic Judgement (Philosophical 3 Pitkin, Biomechanics for Life 75 Simos (Eds), ICNAAM 2010 (AIP Conference Studies Series 115) 62 Popper (Ed), The Plant Cell Wall (Methods Proceedings 1281/3) 2 Mease (Eds), Atlas of Psoriatic Arthritis in Molecular Biology 715) 75 Simos (Eds), ICNAAM 2010 (AIP Conference 76 Meersman (Eds), On the Move to 18 Porzel, Contextual Computing (Cognitive Proceedings, Mathematical and Statistical P Meaningful Internet Systems . CoopIS, IS, DOA Technologies) 1281/2) and ODBASE . Pt . II (LNISA 6427) 4 Preedy (Eds), Handbook of Behavior, Food 48 Simpson, Guidebook to the Constellations 76 Meersman (Eds), On the Move to Meaningful and Nutrition (Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series) Internet Systems: OTM 2010 (LNISA 6428) R 10 Söderhäll (Ed), Invertebrate Immunity 67 Michaeli, Competitive Intelligence (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 708) 47 Milone (Eds), Astronomical Photometry 74 Randall, Linking (Studies in Natural Language 18 Sommaruga (Ed), Foundational Theories (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 373) and Linguistic Theory 74) of Classical and Constructive Mathematics 31 Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry 51 15 Rapoff, Adherence to Pediatric Medical (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of 29 Morgan, Biosynthesis in Insects 2nd ed . Regimens (Issues in Clinical Child Science 76) 29 Moss (Ed), Biomedical Applications of Psychology) 2nd ed . 70 Soto, Latina/o Hope (Explorations of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy (RSC 62 Ravensberg, A Roadmap to the Successful Educational Purpose 14) Analytical Spectroscopy Monographs 11) Development and Commercialization of 16 Steen, Human Intelligence and Medical 3 Mulhall (Eds), Cancer and Sexual Health Microbial Pest Control Products for Control of Illness (The Springer Series on Human (Current Clinical Urology) Arthropods (Progress in Biological Control 10) Exceptionality) N 75 Resch (Eds), High Performance Computing 25 Stephens/Poli, Taming the Complexity of on Vector Systems 2010 Evolutionary Dynamics 39 Nesterenko et al ., Thin Impedance Vibrators 55 Reviews of Environmental Contamination 4 Su (Ed), Atlas of Robotic Urologic Surgery (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2064) and Toxicology 211 (Current Clinical Urology) 75 New (Eds), Hormonal and Genetic Basis of 9 Rij (Ed), Antiviral RNAi (Methods in Molecular 39 Sunderasan, Rational Exuberance for Renew- Sexual Differentiation Disorders and Hot Biology 721) able Energy (Green Energy and Technology) Topics in Endocrinology: Proceedings of the S 2nd World Conference (Advances in T Experimental Medicine and Biology) 24 Sachs (Eds), From Active Data Management 39 Tadj (Eds), Replacement Models with Minimal 76 Nguyen (Eds), Transactions on Computa- to Event-Based Systems and More Repair (Springer Series in Reliability tional Collective Intelligence II (TCCI 6450) (LNISA 6462) Engineering) O 16 Sailor (Eds), Handbook of Positive Behavior 76 Tanner (Eds), Axions 2010 (AIP Conference Support (Issues in Clinical Child Psychology) Proceedings, High Energy Physics 1274) 47 Ohtsu (Ed), Progress in Nanophotonics I 24 Sannella/Tarlecki, Foundations of Algebraic 76 Taura (Eds), Design Creativity 2010 (Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics) Specification and Formal Software 30 Olefin Upgrading Catalysis by Nitrogen- Development (Monographs in Theoretical 68 Terhechte, International Competition based Metal Complexes I (Catalysis by Metal Computer Science . An EATCS Series) Enforcement Law Between Cooperation and Convergence Complexes 35) 25 Sarbo et al ., Knowledge in Formation 76 Ors Yalcin (Ed), Radio Frequency Identification: (Cognitive Technologies) 11 Thurmond (Ed), Histamine in Inflammation (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Security and Privacy Issues . RFIDSec 2010 10 Satyanarayanajois (Ed), Drug Design and Biology 709) (LNSC 6370) Discovery (Methods in Molecular Biology 716) 53 Tiess, Introduction to Mineral Resources 15 Otto (Eds), Avoiding Treatment Failures in 4 Saudubray (Eds), Inborn Metabolic Diseases Policy (Springers Kurzlehrbücher der the Anxiety Disorders (Series in Anxiety and 5th ed . Wirtschaftswissenschaften) Related Disorders) 72 Schatz, Murder and Politics in Mexico 31 Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 6 P (Studies of Organized Crime 10) 53 Tsou, Designing Web Map Services and 76 Scheideler (Ed), Algorithms for Sensor Network-based Cybercartography 3 Panknin (Eds), Dual Source CT – Asian Systems . ALGOSENSORS 2010 (LNCCN 6451) (Advs Geographic Inf .Sci .) Adaptation 53 Schernewski (Eds), Global Change and Baltic 73 Tymieniecka (Eds), Classic Issues in Islamic 52 Panza (Eds), Advanced Seismic Hazard Coastal Zones (Coastal Research Library 1) Philosophy and Theology Today (Islamic Assessment (Pageoph Topical Volumes) 10 Schwanstecher (Ed), Diabetes – Perspectives Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology 47 Papantonopoulos (Ed), From Gravity to in Drug Therapy (Handbook of Experimental in Dialogue 4) Thermal Gauge Theories (Lecture Notes Pharmacology 203) in Physics 828) 66 Sengupta, Understanding Economic Growth springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Author Index V
U 13 Zhou et al ., Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, 76 Ueda (Ed), Programming Languages and Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources Systems . APLAS 2010 (LNPSE 6461) and Applications . Vol . 6 11 Zhou et al ., Encyclopedia of Traditional V Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources 73 Vaccaro (Eds), Impact of Network Ethics on and Applications . Vol . 1 Business Practices 12 Zhou et al ., Encyclopedia of Traditional 40 Vakali (Ed), New Directions in Web Data Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, Management 1 (Studies in Computational Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources Intelligence 331) and Applications . Vol . 2 11 Várkonyi (Ed), The Myelodysplastic 12 Zhou et al ., Encyclopedia of Traditional Syndromes Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, 18 Vasishth/Broe, The Foundations of Statistics: Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources A Simulation-based Approach and Applications . Vol . 3 40 Vernon et al ., A Roadmap for Cognitive 12 Zhou et al ., Encyclopedia of Traditional Development in Humanoid Robots Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, (Cognitive Systems Monographs) Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources 31 Vicario et al ., Organocatalytic Enantioselec- and Applications . Vol . 4 tive Conjugate Addition Reactions (RSC Catalysis Series 5) W
40 Wagner/Bertacco, Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors 41 Wagoner Johnson (Eds), Mechanobiology of Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions 5 Weissenbacher (Ed), Immunology of the Female Genital Tract 76 Weng (Eds), Advanced Steels 76 Wetting Dynamics and Surfaces (Faraday Discussions 146) 26 Wiil (Ed), Counterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence (Lecture Notes in Social Networks 2) 54 Wong (Eds), Eco-city Planning X
41 Xiong/Shenoi, Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Engineering (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering) Y
76 Yao (Ed), Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010 (Green Energy and Technology) Z
75 Zaman (Eds), E-business Technology and Strategy . CETS 2010 (Communications in Computer and Information Science 113) 41 Zarándy (Ed), Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Chips 42 Zhang (Eds), Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding (Studies in Computational Intelligence 332) 13 Zhou et al ., Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources and Applications . Vol . 5 VI Title Index Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
A 14 The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and 11 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Life Coaching Medicines – Molecular Structures, Pharma- 27 Accounts in Drug Discovery 73 Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and cological Activities, Natural Sources and 15 Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens Theology Today Applications 75 Advanced Data Mining and Applications 67 Competitive Intelligence 12 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese 75 Advanced Data Mining and Applications 75 Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems Medicines – Molecular Structures, Pharma- cological Activities, Natural Sources and 52 Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment 63 Computational Methods in Economic Applications 76 Advanced Steels Dynamics 12 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese 75 Advances in Information and Computer 64 Conquering the Pitch Medicines – Molecular Structures, Security 18 Contextual Computing Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources 75 Advances in Systems Safety 71 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling and Applications 75 Advances in Visual Computing of Europe 56 Coordination in Human and Primate Groups 12 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese 75 Advances in Visual Computing Medicines – Molecular Structures, 75 Advances in Visual Computing 65 Corruption, Development and the Environment Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources 76 Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and and Applications Social Complex Systems VI 26 Counterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence 6 Epigenetic Contributions in Autoimmune 76 Algorithms for Sensor Systems Disease 69 Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher 68 Alternatives to Imprisonment in England 22 Extremal Combinatorics Education and Wales, Germany and Turkey 59 Extremophiles Handbook 21 Culture and Computing 35 Analog Circuit Design 59 Extremophiles Handbook 75 Current Trends in Web Engineering, 22 Analyzing Evolutionary Algorithms 59 Extremophiles Handbook ICWE 2010 Workshops 9 Antiviral RNAi F 28 Applications of Polyhedral Oligomeric D Silsesquioxanes 41 Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Engineering 14 Applied Behavior Analysis for Children with 75 Data Driven e-Science 41 Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Chips Autism Spectrum Disorders 65 Demography and Infrastructure 75 Formal Methods for Components and 75 Approximation Algorithms for Complex 38 Design and Analysis of Bio-molecular Circuits Objects Systems 76 Design Creativity 2010 18 Foundational Theories of Classical and 20 Architecting Dependable Systems VII 53 Designing Web Map Services and Constructive Mathematics 75 Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Network-based Cybercartography 24 Foundations of Algebraic Specification and 34 Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games 10 Diabetes – Perspectives in Drug Therapy Formal Software Development 73 Artistic Judgement 34 Digital Factory for Human-Oriented 18 The Foundations of Statistics: 47 Astronomical Photometry Production System A Simulation-based Approach 2 Atlas of Psoriatic Arthritis 70 Doctoral Education: Research Based 17 Fourier Analysis and Nonlinear Partial 4 Atlas of Robotic Urologic Surgery Strategies for Doctoral Students, Supervisors Differential Equations 1 Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy and Administrators 24 From Active Data Management to 35 Automotive Mechatronics: Operational and 43 Drifting on Alien Winds Event-Based Systems and More Practical Issues 10 Drug Design and Discovery 47 From Gravity to Thermal Gauge Theories 15 Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety 3 Dual Source CT – Asian Adaptation G Disorders E 76 Axions 2010 60 Genomics and Molecular Genetics of B 75 E-business Technology and Strategy Plant-Nematode Interactions 54 Eco-city Planning 50 Geomagnetism 63 Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R 58 Education for Animal Welfare 51 Geotechnics and Earthquake Geotechnics 3 Biomechanics for Life 44 Electrodynamics Towards Global Sustainability 29 Biomedical Applications of Synchrotron 49 Electronic Properties of Materials 45 Glasses and Grains Infrared Microspectroscopy 36 The ELFNET Book on Failure Mechanisms, 53 Global Change and Baltic Coastal Zones 43 Biomimetics – Materials, Structures and Testing Methods, and Quality Issues of 76 Global Product Development Processes Lead-Free Solder Interconnects 45 Graduate School in Astronomy 29 Biosynthesis in Insects 38 The Emerging Domain of Cooperating 21 Graph Transformations and Model-Driven 52 Bouguer Gravity Regional and Residual Objects Engineering Separation 64 Enabling Enterprise Transformation 48 Guidebook to the Constellations 9 Breast Cancer, a Heterogeneous Disease 13 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese H Entity Medicines – Molecular Structures, C Pharmacological Activities, Natural 4 Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition Sources and Applications 19 Handbook of Computational Finance 3 Cancer and Sexual Health 13 Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese 21 Handbook of Conceptual Modeling 7 Cellular Effects of Heavy Metals Medicines – Molecular Structures, 72 Handbook of European Societies 76 Chemistry of the Planets Pharmacological Activities, Natural 16 Handbook of Positive Behavior Support 58 Chirality and Life Sources and Applications 2 Handbook of Practical Immunohistochemistry springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 AuthorTitle Index VII
72 Handbook of the Sociology of Aging 75 Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential 67 Planning Production and Inventories in the 1 Heart Diseases in Children Equations V Extended Enterprise 44 Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek 66 Methods to Analyse Agricultural Commodity 62 The Plant Cell Wall Cosmology Price Volatility 61 Polyamines 75 High Performance Computing on Vector 61 Microbial Biosorption of Metals 40 Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Systems 2010 75 Middleware 2010 . ACM/IFIP/USENIX Modern Processors 69 Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and 36 Mining of Data with Complex Structures 37 Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Research 75 Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Decoupling Capacitors 11 Histamine in Inflammation Real-Time Systems 75 Proceedings of the International Conference on Takakazu Seki’s 300th Death Anniversary 75 Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual 69 Models and Modeling 76 Programming Languages and Systems Differentiation Disorders and Hot Topics in 8 Molecular Basis of Health and Disease 75 Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2010 Endocrinology: Proceedings of the 2nd World 8 Molecular Determinants of Radiation 47 Progress in Nanophotonics I Conference Response 28 Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Peptides 28 How Do Spores Select Where to Settle? 56 Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) 29 Protein Phosphorylation Analysis by 16 Human Intelligence and Medical Illness 75 Motion in Games Electrospray Mass Spectrometry 57 Human Population 23 Moving Targets 51 Push-Pull Tests for Site Characterization 33 Hydrogen Storage Materials 8 Multi Modality State-of-the-Art Medical 75 ICNAAM 2010 R Image Segmentation and Registration 75 ICNAAM 2010 Methodologies 76 Radio Frequency Identification: Security and I 9 Multi Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Privacy Issues Image Segmentation and Registration 39 Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy 5 Immunology of the Female Genital Tract Methodologies 23 Real-Time Systems 73 Impact of Network Ethics on Business 72 Murder and Politics in Mexico 75 Recent Trends and Developments in Social Practices 24 Musical Performance Software 46 Impact of Nonlinearities on Fiber Optic 11 The Myelodysplastic Syndromes 33 Reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Communication N Arrays for Mission-Critical Applications 4 Inborn Metabolic Diseases 38 Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets 71 The Individual and the Welfare State 34 Nano-Bio-Sensing 57 Regenerating the Heart 1 Inflammatory Bowel Disease 56 National Forest Inventories: Contributions 39 Replacement Models with Minimal Repair 75 Information Retrieval Technology to Forest Biodiversity Assessments 55 Reviews of Environmental Contamination 51 InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Volcanoes 71 Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and and Toxicology Volume 211 42 Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Technology 6 RNA and DNA Editing Understanding 31 Neurodegenerative Diseases 40 A Roadmap for Cognitive Development in 40 New Directions in Web Data Management 1 31 Interfacial Phenomena in Electrocatalysis Humanoid Robots 27 N-Heterocyclic Carbenes 68 International Competition Enforcement Law 62 A Roadmap to the Successful Development 14 Nonverbal Learning Disabilities in Children Between Cooperation and Convergence and Commercialization of Microbial Pest 53 Introduction to Mineral Resources Policy O Control Products for Control of Arthropods 10 Invertebrate Immunity S 43 Is There a Temperature? 30 Olefin Upgrading Catalysis by Nitrogen- based Metal Complexes I K 30 Safe or Not Safe 76 On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 25 Self-organizing Software 75 On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 46 The Kaguya Mission to the Moon 76 Service-Oriented Computing OTM 2010 25 Knowledge in Formation 75 Service-Oriented Computing . ICSOC/Service- 76 On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Wave 2009 Workshops L OTM 2010 60 Signal Transduction Immunohistochemistry 20 Operational Semantics and Verification of 75 Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for 59 Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures Security Protocols Autonomous Robots 50 Landscape Indicators 46 Operators, Geometry and Quanta 59 Single-Pollen Genotyping 70 Latina/o Hope 33 Optical Network Engineering 75 Smart Sensing and Context 17 The Linear Ordering Problem 31 Organocatalytic Enantioselective Conjugate 15 Social Behavior and Skills in Children 74 Linking Addition Reactions 75 Social Robotics 50 The Lower Damodar River, India P 37 Software Reliability Assessment with OR M Applications 6 p53 57 Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological 27 The Mathematics and Topology of Fullerenes 36 Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis: Systems 44 Mechanics 7 Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development 65 Strategies and Communications for 41 Mechanobiology of Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix 30 Phosphorus Compounds Innovations Interactions 7 Photosensitive Molecules for Controlling 64 Supply Chain Finance Solutions 60 Mechanosensitivity and Mechanotransduction Biological Function 61 Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2 2 Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases 45 Physics of Baseball & Softball 55 Sustainable Water VIII Title Index Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
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25 Taming the Complexity of Evolutionary Dynamics 58 Targeting Functional Centers of the Ribosome 76 Targets in Heterocyclic Systems 23 The Block Cipher Companion 39 Thin Impedance Vibrators 63 The Trade Impact of European Union Preferential Policies 76 Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence II 32 Transportation Biofuels 35 Turbulent Combustion Modeling U
66 Understanding Economic Growth V
20 Verification and Validation in Systems Engineering 37 Virtual Manufacturing 75 Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Industry W
76 Web-Age Information Management . WAIM 2010 Workshops 17 Weights, Extrapolation and the Theory of Rubio de Francia 76 Wetting Dynamics and Surfaces 22 Working with Preferences Z
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R. Abdulla, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, R. D. Cohen, The University of Chicago Medical A. H. Dachman, The University of Chicago Medical IL, USA (Ed.) Center, IL, USA (Ed.) Center, Chicago, IL, USA; A. Laghi, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy (Eds.) Heart Diseases in Children Inflammatory Bowel Disease A Pediatrician’s Guide Diagnosis and Therapeutics Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy thoroughly revises As front line health care providers for children, As in the first edition of Inflammatory Bowel and updates Abraham Dachman’s bestselling first pediatricians are entrusted with the responsibility Diseases this new edition continues to provide ed. Joined in this edition by co-editor Andrea for discovering early signs of heart diseases in readers with a concise, yet in-depth review of Laghi, Dr. Dachman has expanded the focus of the this complex patient population. Especially in many of the important areas in the history, epide- text to cover fundamental topics of this rapidly the newborn period, the presentation of pedi- miology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment evolving technology, including the history of atric heart disease is frequently obscure, and the of the inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative virtual colonoscopy, a review of clinical trial data consequences of these illnesses can be devastating colitis and Crohn’s disease), as well as associated from throughout the world, and a presentation of if not caught early and managed correctly. This issues: extraintestinal manifestations, ostomy clinical background information. Also included are comprehensive, easy to understand book is a ready care, women’s issues, economics, etc. This Second chapters covering patient preparation and tagging, guide to acquiring the proficiency and confidence Edition provides the reders with up-to-date, state- performing and reporting virtual colonoscopy, necessary to decipher the wide spectrum of disease of-the art approaches to these disease states, with viewing methods, MR colonography, and computer presentations. Case scenarios give life to each expansion into the newer topics that have emerged aided detection. The second part of the text chapter, with key images and illustrations rein- in the past few years which include the expansion presents an atlas of high-resolution images with forcing notable concepts. Special attention is given of biological agents for treatment, new studies in detailed explanations of teaching points, covering to the interpretation of chest radiographs and the the epidemiology of IBD, the changing economics normal anatomy; sessile, pedunculated, diminutive role of echocardiography and catheterization. of IBD, breakthroughs in new endoscopic and flat lesions; masses; stool and diverticula; and evaluations, major advances in novel radiographic common pitfalls. Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy is a Features techniques, the detection of colorectal cancer in valuable resource for all radiologists and gastroen- 7 Presents the fundamentals of pediatric patients with IBD and new findings in the genetics terologists interested in learning the fundamentals cardiology 7 Content created by primary care of IBD. of this exciting technique. providers for primary care providers 7 Focuses on disease presentation and clinical judgment Features Features 7 Case studies emphasizes patient management 7 Expanded to include cutting-edge topics 7 Fully explains the fundamentals of this state- recently emerged 7 Illustrates a world of new of-the-art technique to radiologists, radiology Contents radiographic, endoscopic, and other techniques residents, and gastroenterologists 7 Provides a Cardiac History and Physical Examination.- with fascinating images readily available by today’s review of clinical trial data from throughout the Cardiac Interpretation of Pediatric Chest x-Ray.- technology 7 Features new and completely world, and a presentation of clinical background Electrocardiography: Approach and Interpreta- updated chapters, building upon the acclaimed information 7 Covers fundamental topics of this tion.- Pediatric Echocardiography.- Cardiac first edition rapidly evolving technology Catheterization in Children: Diagnosis and Therapy.- Atrial Septal Defect.- Ventricular Septal Fields of interest From the contents Defect.- Patent Ductus Arteriosus.- Atrioventric- Gastroenterology; Colorectal Surgery; Pathology Virtual Colonoscopy: From concept to implemen- ular Canal Defect.- Pulmonary Stenosis.- Aortic tation.- Global implementation of CTC.- Epidemi- Stenosis.- Coarctation of the Aorta.- Tetralogy of Target groups ology and Screening of Colorectal Cancer.- Imple- Fallot.- Double Outlet Right Ventricle.- Transposi- Professional/practitioner mentation and clinical trials in the USA.- Clinical tion of the Great Arteries.- Pulmonary Atresia with Trials: Europe .- Patient Preparation and Tagging.- Intact Ventricular Septum.- Pulmonary Atresia Discount group Performing and Reporting.- Viewing Methods.- with Ventricular Septal Defect.- Tricuspid Atresia.- MC The Controversy Over Flat Lesions.- MR Colonog- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return.- raphy.- Extracolonic Findings.- Computer-Aided Truncus Arteriosus.- Single Ventricle. 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Due April 2011 Due December 2010 Due March 2011 2nd ed. 2011. 350 p. 49 illus., 29 in color. 2nd ed. 2011. 300 p. 656 illus., 337 in color. 2011. 407 p. 207 illus., 164 in color. Hardcover (Clinical Gastroenterology) Hardcover With online files/update. Hardcover 7 $79.95 7 $219.00 7 $189.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-7993-3 ISBN 978-1-60327-432-6 ISBN 978-1-4419-5851-8 2 Medicine Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
I. Fong, University of Toronto, ON, Canada F. Lin, J. Prichard, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, P. J. Mease, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, PA, USA (Eds.) USA; P. S. Helliwell, University of Leeds, UK (Eds.) Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases Handbook of Practical Atlas of Psoriatic Arthritis Guide For Physicians Immunohistochemistry This comprehensive visual reference contains over Frequently Asked Questions 150 images from a wide gamut of variations of the The aim of this book is not to encourage defensive disease, as well as charts and tables detailing the medical practice, but to help provide better, In a conceptually current, quick-reference, Ques- most up-to-date information on patient suscep- optimum care to patients and to be forth right and tion & Answer format, the Handbook of Practical tibility, incidence, and symptoms, providing the honest to our dear customers about our inevitable Immunohistochemistry: Frequently Asked Ques- clinical presentation of the disease, as well as mistakes. This book will focus on clinical issues tions provides standardization of the immunos- radiographic, ultrasound, and MRI images to facing physicians in different settings (which can taining process for each antibody and for each highlight the role of imaging in psoriatic arthritis. lead to malpractice), and the best approach to use staining panel. With links to the authors Immu- Although several proposed methods for classifying to avoid litigations, and practice good medicine. nohistochemical Laboratory website, this volume PsA have been published, none has been widely creates a current and up-to-date information accepted or validated. This book proposes the use Features system on immunohistochemistry. This includes of an amended version of the Moll and Wright 7 Helps provide some guide to physicians dealing access to tissue microarrays (TMA) of over 5,000 method, and functions mostly as a visual reference with a variety of infections to avoid pitfalls in tumors to validate common diagnostic panels and and data source of the most up-to-date findings diagnosis and management that often predispose provide the best reproducible data for diagnostic and comprehensive images of PsA. litigations 7 Gives case scenarios in the format purposes.Chapters are presented in a unique of problem-solving challenges faced by physicians Question and Answer format. One table/IHC panel Features in various practices and subspecialties 7 Helps is provided to address each question. A concise 7 Visual reference and data source of the most provide better, optimum care to patients and explanatory note follows each table/panel to avoid up-to-date findings and comprehensive images of encourages honesty and fairness with our patients diagnostic pitfalls. Website links are provided PsA 7 Serves as a first point of reference both for when addressing our inevitable mistakes throughout to update the massive information in diagnosis and treatment decisions this field, providing the most current knowledge Contents and the potential for live expert consultation. Contents Preface.- General Principles.- Complaints related Epidemology.- Etiology and Pathophysiology.- to the head.- Conditions of the skin/soft tissue Features Clinical Evaluation.- Imaging.- Skin and Psoriasis.- in the ER.- Litigation in infections of Obstetrics 7 Each chapter written by a nationally/inter- Jeuvenile Psoriatic Arthritis.- The Management of & Gynecology.- Looking Beyond the Obvious.- nationally recognized expert 7 Provides a Psoriatic Arthritis.- Treatment Of Psoriasis. Failure to counsel can lead to litigation.- Litiga- conceptually current, quick-reference, Question tions for unexpected adverse events.- Orthopedic and Answer format 7 Linking to Immunohisto- Fields of interest complications.- Neurosurgical medico-legal chemical Laboratory Website 7 Over 600 high- Rheumatology; Dermatology; General Practice / issues.- Litigations in General Surgery.- Litigation quality images Family Medicine for infection in plastic surgery.- Litigations for HIV-related complications.- Overview of medico- Fields of interest Target groups legal issues.- Index. Pathology Professional/practitioner
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Due February 2011 Due February 2011 Due February 2011 Only available in print 2011. 210 p. (Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century) Hardcover 1st Edition 2011. 768 p. 584 illus., 579 in color. Hardcover 2011. X, 108 p. 239 illus., 80 in color. Softcover 7 approx. $189.00 7 approx. $269.00 7 $49.95 ISBN 978-1-4419-8052-6 ISBN 978-1-4419-8061-8 ISBN 978-0-85729-174-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Medicine 3
J. P. Mulhall, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer C. Panknin, Singapore; P. Lengsfeld, Berlin; V. Verma, M. R. Pitkin, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA Center, New York, NY, USA; L. Incrocci, Daniel den Singapore (Eds.) Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Biomechanics for Life I. Goldstein, Alvarado Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA; Dual Source CT – Asian R. Rosen, New England Research Institute, Introduction to Sanomechanics Watertown, MA, USA (Eds.) Adaptation The reader will find in this book a new approach Cancer and Sexual Health This is the Asian adaptation of the Dual Source to improving health. The author has called this CT (DSCT) imaging protocol book providing approach “sanomechanics,” combining the Latin The average physician and even cancer care-givers a comprehensive source on scan and contrast sanus (healthy, sound) and mechanicus (science are not knowledgeable about the effects of cancer protocols for all important indications for the first of the motion of bodies subjected to forces). The treatment on sex and reproductive life. They are generation DSCT scanner, the Somatom Definition focus of sanomechanics is on exercising with an even less aware of the options available for treat- [1]. The book presented here is a compilation of understanding of the biomechanical consequences ment of such patients. Cancer and Sexual Health cases and adapted protocols especially tailored for of the actions. This understanding is based on fills a great need for a reference work devoted to the Asian population to fully utilize the potential the author’s theory of the floating skeleton, which the link between cancer and human sexuality. The of the DSCT technology in Asia. postulates a hydraulic connection of synovial volume is designed to give a comprehensive and joints. The theory explains the greater or lesser state-of-the-art review of the sexual and repro- Features success of any exercise utilizing the ability of the ductive consequences of cancer diagnosis and 7 Asian adaptation of the Dual Source CT human skeleton to absorb and transform forces treatment. It will prove an invaluable resource for (DSCT) imaging protocol book 7 Compilation of and moments from the body segments and the those clinicians caring for cancer patients as well cases especially tailored for the Asian population environment. This ability vanishes with age and as acting as a reference text for the sexual medicine to fully utilize the potential of the DSCT tech- illnesses, and the deeper our understanding of clinician who may not see a large number of nology in Asia 7 Adapted protocols especially the nature of skeletal functioning is, the better we cancer patients. tailored for the Asian population to fully utilize the shall be able to improve, protect, and prolong the potential of the DSCT technology in Asia skeleton’s health. Features 7 Gives a comprehensive and state-of-the-art Contents Features review of the sexual and reproductive conse- DSCT Technology / Contrast Medium.- Cardio- 7 Describes a novel “sanomechanical” approach quences of cancer diagnosis and treatment vascular and Body Radiology DSCT Applications.- to improving health 7 Provides a new under- 7 World’s leading authorities are enrolled in an Dual Energy CT Applications. standing of the biomechanical consequences of effort to explain how to manage these difficulties movements, which will increase the effectiveness 7 Devoted to the link between cancer and human Fields of interest of exercises 7 Explains how the sanomechanical sexuality Imaging / Radiology approach to exercises can improve, protect, and prolong the skeleton’s health Fields of interest Target groups Urology/Andrology; Oncology; Surgical Oncology Professional/practitioner Contents Floating skeleton concept.- Sanomechanics.- Target groups Discount group Biomechanics for life.- Sanomechanical exercises.- Professional/practitioner MR About forces and moments in locomotion.- Sano- mechanics of respiration. Discount group MR Fields of interest Orthopedics; Rehabilitation; Medicine/Public Health, general
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Due November 2010 Due February 2011 Only available in print Due March 2011 2011. X, 808 p. 113 illus., 69 in color. (Current Clinical Urology) Hardcover 2010. 200 p. Softcover 2011. 180 p. 75 illus., 25 in color. Hardcover 7 $279.00 7 $9.95 7 approx. $139.00 ISBN 978-1-60761-915-4 ISBN 978-3-642-15133-0 ISBN 978-3-642-17176-5 4 Medicine Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
C. R. Martin, University of West Scotland, Glasgow, J. Saudubray, Paris; G. v. Berghe, J. H. Walter (Eds.) L. Su, University of Florida College of Medicine, UK (Ed.) Gainesville, FL, USA (Ed.) Inborn Metabolic Diseases Handbook of Behavior, Food Diagnosis and Treatment Atlas of Robotic Urologic and Nutrition Surgery Keep on top of current practice and new devel- This book disseminates current information opmentsFor those involved in the identification The Atlas of Robotic Urologic Surgery provides a pertaining to the modulatory effects of foods and and management of patients with inborn errors detailed, step-by-step guide to common robotic other food substances on behavior and neuro- of metabolism, this book is now recognised as the urologic procedures for the purpose of helping logical pathways and, importantly, vice versa. standard textbook in this interdisciplinary field. novice surgeons in their transition to robotic This ranges from the neuroendocrine control of It has proved to be indispensable for professionals surgery and seasoned robotic surgeons to eating to the effects of life-threatening disease on in specialities ranging from pediatrics, neona- refine their surgical technique and expand their eating behavior. The importance of this contribu- tology, pathological biochemistry and genetics to repertoire of robotic procedures. In addition, less tion to the scientific literature lies in the fact that neurology, internal medicine, nursing, dietetics commonly performed robotic procedures such as food and eating are an essential component of and psychology. This 5th edition has been exten- those for male infertility, pelvic organ prolapse, cultural heritage but the effects of perturbations sively revised and updated. urinary tract reconstruction and pediatrics are in the food/cognitive axis can be profound. The included. complex interrelationship between neuropsycho- Features logical processing, diet, and behavioral outcome is 7 Main feature is the strong emphasis on clinical Features explored within the context of the most contem- presentation and treatment in acute and chronic 7 Written by thought leaders in robotic urologic porary psychobiological research in the area. This situation 7 Clinical approach is the starting surgery 7 Complimented by figures and intra- comprehensive psychobiology- and pathology- point for each chapter 7 Reference to diagnostic operative video detailiing the nuances of each themed text examines the broad spectrum of diet, options 7 Reliable, up-to-date, indispensable procedure Includes less commonly performed behavioral, and neuropsychological interactions 7 Procedures such as those for male infertility, from normative function to occurrences of severe Contents pelvic organ prolapse, urinary tract reconstruction and enduring psychopathological processes. Part I: Diagnosis and Treatment: General and pediatrics Principles: Classification and clinical Approach Features to Inherited Metabolic Diseases in Pediatrics.- Contents 7 Provides a new depth of information on the Clinical approach to Inherited Metabolic Diseases Chapter 1 - Robotic Platforms and Systems.- "two-way traffic" of neurology, psychology, and in Adulthood.- Newborn Screening for Inborn Chapter 2 - Robotic Instrumentation and OR behavioral aspects of food and diet 7 Each Errors of Metabolism.- Diagnostic Procedures and Setup.- Chapter 3 - Transperitoneal-Anterior chapter includes a section on applying information Postmortem Protocol.- Emergency Treatments.- Technique.- Chapter 4 - Transperitoneal-Posterior to related fields, as well as a key facts, summary Part II: Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism: Technique.- Chapter 5 - Extraperitoneal Tech- points and defined key terms 7 Everything you Glycogen-Storage Diseases and Related Disorders.- nique.- Chapter 6 - Management of the difficult need to know about the behavioral aspects of Disorders of Galactose Metabolism.- Disorders case.- Chapter 7 - Robotic Radical Cystoprosta- food and nutrition: from molecular to individual of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway.- Disorders of tectomy.- Chapter 8 - Robotic Sacralcolpopexy.- through population levels Fructose Metabolism.- Persistent Hyperinsulin- Chapter 9 - Robotic Adrenalectomy.- Chapter emic Hypoglycemia.- Disorders of Glucose Trans- 10 - Robotic Pyeloplasty.- Chapter 11 - Robotic Field of interest port.- Part III: Disorders of Mitochondrial Energy Radical and Partial Nephrectomy.- Chapter 12 Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Metabolism: Disorders of Pyruvate Metabolism - Robotic Pyelolithotomy and Ureterolithotomy.- and the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle.- Disorders of Chapter 13 - Robotic Ureteroureterostomy/ Target groups Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation and Related Calicostomy.- Chapter 14 - Robotic Procedures Research Metabolic Pathways.- Disorders of Ketogenesis for Infertility.- Chapter 15 - Pediatrics Robotic and Ketolysis.- Defects of the Respiratory Chain.- Procedures.- Chapter 16 - Robot-Assisted Radical Discount group Creatine Deficiency Syndromes. Nephroureterectomy. MR Fields of interest Fields of interest Pediatrics; Human Genetics; Endocrinology Urology/Andrology; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Surgery Target groups Professional/practitioner Target groups Professional/practitioner Discount group MR Discount group P
Due January 2011 Due February 2011 Due May 2011 2011. 5000 p. (In 5 volumes, not available separately) 2011. 359 p. 355 illus., 277 in color. (Current Clinical Hardcover 5th Edition. 2011. 570 p. Hardcover Urology) Hardcover 7 $1399.00 7 $209.00 7 $219.00 ISBN 978-0-387-92270-6 ISBN 978-3-642-15719-6 ISBN 978-1-60761-025-0 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Medicine 5
E. R. Weissenbacher, Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, München, Germany (Ed.) Immunology of the Female Genital Tract
This book systematically reviews and discusses recent studies and articles on the immunology of female genital tract tissue. The scope is broad, encompassing innate immune responses, adap- tive (humoral and cell-mediated) immunity, the immunology of menstruation, the immunology of viral and bacterial infections, the immunology of normal and abnormal pregnancy, and immunolog- ical infertility. Throughout, tables and illustrations are judiciously used to facilitate understanding. Immunology of the Female Genital Tract will serve as an invaluable source of up-to-date information for all with an interest in this subject.
Features 7 Broad and up-to-date overview of immunology of the female genital tract 7 Discusses results from the most important recent studies 7 Encompasses the immunology of viral and bacterial infections, the immunology of pregnancy, and immunological infertility
Contents Fundamentals of immunology: Concepts of innate and specific immunity.- Mucosal immunology.- General immunology of the genital tract: Distinct features of the genital mucosal tissue.- Functions and regulation of innate immune responses in the human reproductive tract.- Functions and regula- tion of adaptive humoral and cell-mediated immu- nity in the female genital tract.- Immunization studies.- Immunology of menstruation – menstru- ation as an inflammatory process.- Immunology of genital tract infections: Viral infections of the genital tract.- Bacterial infections of the genital tract.- Candidiasis.- Trichomoniasis.- Immunology in reproductive medicine: Immunology of preg- nancy.- Immunologic infertility.- Immunocontra- ceptive approaches.
Fields of interest Gynecology; Immunology; Dermatology
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Due April 2011
2011. 300 p. 24 illus. in color. Hardcover 7 approx. $189.00 ISBN 978-3-642-14905-4 6 Biomedicine Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
R. Aphasizhev, University of California, Irvine, CA, A. Ayed, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; T. Hupp, E. Ballestar, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute USA (Ed.) University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (Eds.) (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain (Ed.) RNA and DNA Editing p53 Epigenetic Contributions in Methods and Protocols Autoimmune Disease This volume, p53, was developed primarily as a The recent expansion in diversity of RNA and resource for access to key ideas in the field that This volume focuses on the relevance of epigenetic DNA editing types has stimulated the development have developed over the years including how mechanisms in autoimmune disease. It provides of many unique genetic, molecular, biochemical, transgenics have been used to study p53, how new directions for future research in autoimmune and computational approaches to biological clinical genetics have identified and studied muta- disease. issues. In RNA and DNA Editing: Methods and tions in p53 found in human cancers, how p53 Protocols, leading experts in the field introduce can be regulated by post-translational modifica- Features methods developed over the last few years to study tion, and how key drug targets have been defined, 7 Overview of some of the key concepts in editing substrates, mechanisms of specificity, and namely MDM2, which has provided fundamental epigenetics, chromatin and the interaction with functions of RNA and DNA editing enzymes and approaches for defining how p53 can be acti- transcription factors 7 Shows the specific influ- complexes. Sections of the book are dedicated to vated with potentially therapeutic effect. The ence of environmental factors to influence or state-of-the art techniques which enable investiga- key concepts in the chapters included provide a trigger the autoimmune response 7 Discusses the tion of uracil insertion/deletion RNA editing in perspective on key paradigms in the p53 field. possibilities of using epigenetics-based therapies in mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei, adenosine the context of autoimmune diseases 7 Presents to inosine RNA editing, cytidine to uracil RNA and Features the application of novel methods to characterize DNA editing, as well as tRNA editing and RNA 7 Discusses TP53 Mutations in Human Cancers the epigenetic profile modifications. 7 Chapter on Regulation and Function of the Original p53-Inducible p21 Gene 7 Presents key Contents Features ideas in the field AN INTRODUCTION TO EPIGENETICS.- 7 Features cutting-edge methodologies focused CHROMATIN MECHANISMS REGULATING on the study of this diverse field of study Contents GENE EXPRESSION IN HEALTH AND 7 Includes unique genetic, molecular, biochem- TP53 Mutations in Human Cancers: Selection DISEASE.- EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF ical, and computational approaches 7 Contains versus Mutagenesis.- Lessons on p53 from Mouse LYMPHOCYTE DIFERENTIATION.- EPIGEN- expert tips and implementation advice Models.- TP63, TP73: The Guardian’s Elder ETIC CONTROL IN IMMUNE FUNCTION.- Brothers.- The Regulation of p53 Protein Function DNA METHYLATION AND B‑CELL AUTOR From the contents by Phosphorylation.- The p53-Mdm2 Loop: A EACTIVITY.- ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Trypano- Critical Juncture of Stress Response.- Coopera- AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.- EPIGEN- soma brucei Editosomes Using Single-Particle tion between MDM2 and MDMX in the Regula- ETIC DYSREGULATION OF EPSTEIN‑BARR Electron Microscopy.- iCODA: RNAi-Based tion of p53.- Regulation and Function of the VIRUS LATENCY AND DEVELOPMENT OF Inducible Knock-In System in Trypanosoma Original p53-Inducible p21 Gene.- p53 Localiza- AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE.- DOES GENOMIC brucei.- Perturbing A-to-I RNA Editing Using tion.- Modes of p53 Interactions with DNA in the IMPRINTING PLAY A ROLE IN AUTOIMMU- Genetics and Homologous Recombination.- Laser Chromatin Context.- p53’s Dilemma in Transcrip- NITY?.- A NEW EPIGENETIC CHALLENGE: Microdissection and Pressure Catapulting of Single tion: Analysis by Microarrays.- Tumor Viruses and SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS.- Human Motor Neurons for RNA Editing Analysis.- p53.- p53 and Immunity. EPIGENETIC DEREGULATION IN RHEUMA- Biochemical Identification of A-to-I RNA Editing TOID ARTHRITIS.- PROSPECTS FOR EPIGEN- sites by the Inosine Chemical Erasing (ICE) Fields of interest ETIC COMPOUNDS IN THE TREATMENT Method.- Identifying mRNA Editing Deaminase Cancer Research OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE.- PROFILING Targets by RNA-Seq.- Mouse and Other Rodent EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS IN DISEASE. Models of C to U RNA Editing.- In vivo Analysis Target groups of RNA Editing in Plastids.- Identifying Specific Research Fields of interest Trans-Factors of RNA Editing in Plant Mitochon- Biomedicine general; Gene Function dria by Multiplex Single Base Extension Typing. Discount group P Target groups Fields of interest Research Human Genetics; Enzymology Discount group Target groups P Professional/practitioner
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Due February 2011 Due March 2011 Due January 2011
2011. 250 p. 57 illus., 1 in color. (Methods in Molecular 2011. XVI, 200 p. 59 illus., 3 in color. (Molecular Biology 2011. XVI, 178 p. 22 illus. (Advances in Experimental Biology, Volume 718) Hardcover Intelligence Unit, Volume 1) Hardcover Medicine and Biology, Volume 711) Hardcover 7 $119.00 7 $189.00 7 $189.00 ISBN 978-1-61779-017-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-8230-8 ISBN 978-1-4419-8215-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Biomedicine 7
G. Banfalvi, University of Debrecen, Hungary (Ed.) P. Bonate, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, J. J. Chambers, University of Massachusetts, NC, USA; D. R. Howard, Novartis, East Hanover, NJ, Amherst, MA, USA; R. H. Kramer, University of Cellular Effects of Heavy USA (Eds.) California, Berkeley, CA, USA (Eds.) Metals Pharmacokinetics in Drug Photosensitive Molecules for
<body>The term “heavy metals” is used as a Development Controlling Biological group name of toxic metals and metalloids (semi- Advances and Applications, Volume 3 Function metals) causing contaminations and ecotoxicity. In strict chemical sense the density of heavy metals is The topics chosen for this volume were selected The development of new photochemical tools, higher than 5 g/cm3. From biological point of view because they are some of the current development some synthesized by chemists and some provided as microelements they can be divided into two or technological issues facing drug development by nature, is rapidly changing the way neurobio- major groups. a. For their physiological function project teams. They regard the practical consider- logical research is performed in the modern labo- organisms and cells require essential microele- ations for assessment of selected special develop- ratory. In Photosensitive Molecules for Control- ments such as iron, chromium (III), cobalt, copper, ment populations. For example, they include ling Biological Function, expert researchers in the manganese, molidenium, zinc. b. The other group characterization of drug disposition in pregnant field examine the most cutting-edge tools currently of heavy metals is toxic to the health or environ- subjects, for measuring arrhythmic potential, for available. Divided into three sections, this detailed ment. Of highest concern are the emissions of As, analysis tumor growth modeling, and for disease compendium features techniques involving natural Cd, Co, Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sn, Tl. The toxicity of progression modeling. Practical considerations for photosensitive proteins, caged neurotransmitters, heavy metals is well known at organizational level, metabolite safety testing, transporter assessments, and small molecule photoswitches that bestow while less attention has been paid to their cellular Phase 0 testing, and development and execu- light sensitivity on ion channels and receptors. effects. This book describes the toxicity of heavy tion of drug interaction programs reflect current Written for the Neuromethods series, this volume metals on microorganisms, yeast, plant and animal regulatory topics meant to address enhancement of features the type of meticulous description and cells. Other chapters of the book deal with their both safety assessment and early decision-making implementation advice that is crucial for getting genotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic effects. during new candidate selection. Important tech- optimal results in the lab. nologies like whole body autoradiography, digital Features imaging and dried blood spot sample collection Features 7 Describes the biological importance of heavy methods are introduced, as both have begun 7 Captures the most current methods in precise metals 7 Shows how heavy metals enter cells to take a more visible role in pharmacokinetic and non-invasive exploration of neural func- 7 What happens inside the cells upon heavy metal departments throughout the industry. tion via light 7 Features extensive sections on uptake 7 What chemical reactions are induced natural photosensitive proteins, caged neurotrans- by heavy metals 7 What metabolic pathways are Features mitters, and small molecule photoswitches hampered by these metals 7 Provides practical guidance on the applica- 7 Includes expert implementation advice crucial tion of pharmacokinetics as a drug development for getting optimal results in the lab From the contents science 7 Includes characterization of drug Introduction. Chapter 1. Heavy Metals, Trace disposition in pregnant subjects, for measuring Fields of interest Elements and their Cellular Effects. I. Heavy metal arrhythmic potential, for analysis tumor growth Neurosciences; Neurobiology; Neurochemistry toxicity in microbes. Chapter 2. Toxic Metal/ modeling, and for disease progression modeling Metalloid Tolerance in Fungi – A Biotechnology- 7 Introduces important technologies Target groups Oriented Approach. Chapter 3. Interference of Professional/practitioner chromium with cellular functions. Chapter 4. Fields of interest Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model Organism Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Biotech- Discount group for Elucidating Arsenic Tolerance Mechanisms. nology; Pharmacy P II. Heavy metal induced toxicity in insect cells. Chapter 5 . Heavy Metal Toxicity in an Insect Cell Target groups Line (Methyl-HgCl, HgCl2, CdCl2 and CuSO4) . Research III. Genotoxic effects of heavy metals. Chapter 6. Cellular Changes in Mammalian Cells Induced by Discount group Cadmium. P
Fields of interest Biomedicine general; Cell Biology; Oxidative Stress
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Due March 2011 Due January 2011 Due February 2011 2011. 285 p. 65 illus., 20 in color. (Neuromethods, 2011. X, 520 p. Hardcover 2011. V, 355 p. 106 illus., 5 in color. Hardcover Volume 55) Hardcover 7 $209.00 7 $209.00 7 $119.00 ISBN 978-94-007-0427-5 ISBN 978-1-4419-7936-0 ISBN 978-1-61779-030-0 8 Biomedicine Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
U. N. Das, UND Life Science, Shaker Heights, OH, USA T. L. DeWeese, M. Laiho, Johns Hopkins University, A. El-Baz, Bioengineering Department, University Baltimore, MD, USA (Eds.) of Louisville, KY, USA; R. Acharya U, Department Molecular Basis of Health and of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Ngee Ann Molecular Determinants of Polytechnic, Singapore; M. Mirmehdi, Department of Disease Computer Science, University of Bristol, England; Radiation Response J. Suri, Biomedical Technologies Inc., Denver, CO, & The book describes how the balance between Aff- Idaho State University, Idaho, ID, USA (Eds.) pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules is related Molecular Determinants of Radiation Response to health and disease. It is suggested that many includes chapters by expert authors who detail Multi Modality diseases are initiated and their progress is influ- the present understanding of key DNA damage enced by inflammatory molecules and a decrease response pathways and proteins. The chapters State-of-the-Art Medical in the production and/or action of anti-inflam- include comprehensive discussions on where and Image Segmentation and matory molecules and this imbalance between how specific alterations in function of these path- Registration Methodologies pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules seems to ways and proteins result in substantive modifica- have been initiated in the perinatal period. This tions of cellular response to DNA injury. Given the Volume 1 implies that strategies to prevent and manage importance of therapies that induce DNA injury various adult diseases should start in the perinatal in the management of human disease, this book With the advances in image guided surgery for period. An alteration in the metaolism of essential is timely and relevant for basic and translational cancer treatment, the role of image segmenta- fatty acids and their anti-inflammatory molecules researchers, as well as clinicians alike. tion and registration has become very critical. such as lipoxins, resolvins, protecitns, maresins The central engine of any image guided surgery and nitrolipids seems to play a major role in the Features product is its ability to quantify the organ or pathobiology of several adult diseases. Based on 7 Includes chapters by expert authors who detail segment the organ whether it is a magnetic reso- these concepts, novel therapeutic approaches in the present understanding of key DNA damage nance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography the management of insulin resistance, obesity, response pathways and proteins 7 Presents (CT), X-ray, PET, SPECT, Ultrasound, and Molec- type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, comprehensive discussions on where and how ular imaging modality. Sophisticated segmentation cancer, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and other auto- specific alterations in function of these pathways algorithms can help the physicians delineate better immune diseases are presented. and proteins result in substantive modifications of the anatomical structures present in the input cellular response to DNA injury 7 A timely and images, enhance the accuracy of medical diagnosis Features relevant text for basic and translational researchers and facilitate the best treatment planning system 7 Perinatal origins of adult diseases 7 Adult designs. The focus of this book in towards the state diseases as low-grade systemic inflammatory From the contents of the art techniques in the area of image segmen- conditions 7 Inflammation as the basis of Molecular Basis of the DNA Damage Responses.- tation and registration. obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome ATM signaling and DNA Damage.- H2AX in and cancerImbalance in the pro- and anti-inflam- DNA Damage Response.- Dynamic Imaging of Features matory molecules as the basis of adult diseases DNA Damage Foci.- DNA Damage Signaling 7 3D Deformable models for medical imaging 7 Altered metabolism of essential fatty acids and Downstream of ATM.- Checkpoint Control segmentation 7 Covers skin, lung, brain and eicosanoids in the pathobiology of adult diseases and Radiation.- Chromatin Responses to DNA retinal cancers Ultrasound and MRI image Damage.-DNA Damage Response and Senes- registration 7 Advanced techniques in brain Fields of interest cence.- C. elegans and DNA Damage.- Modulation segmentation and registration Biomedicine general; Human Physiology; of Radiation Responses – Opportunities for Thera- Molecular Medicine peutic Exploitation.- The Stem Cell and Radia- Fields of interest tion.- Role of the Cell Membrane in Signaling Biomedicine general; Biomedical Engineering; Target groups Radiation Injury.- Hypoxia and Modulation of Image Processing and Computer Vision Professional/practitioner Cellular Radiation Response.- Role of PARP and PARP Inhibition in Cellular Response to Radia- Target groups Discount group tion.- Anti-angiogenic Therapies and Radiation Professional/practitioner P Responses.- Gene Therapy and Radiation.- Radia- tion-mediated Molecular Targeting. Discount group P Fields of interest Cancer Research; Pharmacology/Toxicology
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Due March 2011 Due March 2011 Due February 2011 2011. Approx. 350 p. 34 illus., 25 in color. (Current Cancer 2011. XX, 1460 p. Hardcover Research) Hardcover 2011. 650 p. 250 illus., 125 in color. Hardcover 7 approx. $239.00 7 approx. $159.00 7 approx. $239.00 ISBN 978-94-007-0494-7 ISBN 978-1-4419-8043-4 ISBN 978-1-4419-8194-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Biomedicine 9
A. El-Baz, Bioengineering Department, University Z. Kahán, T. Tot, Uppsala University, Sweden (Eds.) R. P. Rij, University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Ed.) of Louisville, USA; R. Acharya U, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Ngee Ann Breast Cancer, a Antiviral RNAi Polytechnic, Singapore; A. Laine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, USA; Heterogeneous Disease Entity Concepts, Methods, and Applications J. Suri, Biomedical Technologies Inc., Denver, CO, & The Very Early Stages Aff.- Idaho State University, Idaho, ID, USA (Eds.) Viruses and RNAi share an intricate relationship The volume raises attention to the need of a at many levels. RNAi is an important antiviral Multi Modality completely new approach to breast cancer based defense mechanism in plants and invertebrates, on the knowledge collected on early breast cancer microRNAs – of viral or cellular origin – affect State-of-the-Art Medical in the past two decades. The chapters are contrib- many aspects of virus biology, and replication Image Segmentation and uted by experts of all the fields participating in of many, if not all, mammalian viruses can be Registration Methodologies the clinical research and care of breast cancer. The suppressed by RNAi. Antiviral RNAi: Concepts, practical importance of such a book is underlined Methods, and Applications provides a collection Volume II by the increasing number of breast cancer cases, of protocols for the analysis of viral small RNAs and also the increasing proportion of early stage- and natural antiviral RNAi responses as well as for With the advances in image guided surgery for cases. The ultimate goal of the book is to point to the development and optimization of RNAi-based cancer treatment, the role of image segmenta- the heterogeneous nature of the disease which is antiviral drugs. As RNAi is a central regulatory tion and registration has become very critical. more striking and has more importance in care at mechanism in the cell, the methods in this volume The central engine of any image guided surgery the very early stages than at the more advanced can also be applied out of the context of a virus product is its ability to quantify the organ or stages. The book recommends the utilization of infection. segment the organ whether it is a magnetic reso- all the information provided by multimodality nance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography imaging and special pathological methods, a new Features (CT), X-ray, PET, SPECT, Ultrasound, and Molec- classification system and therapeutic guidelines 7 Includes cutting-edge methods and proto- ular imaging modality. Sophisticated segmentation since early breast cancers should not be treated cols 7 Provides step-by-step detail essential for algorithms can help the physicians delineate better based on experience obtained with palpable reproducible results 7 Contains key notes and the anatomical structures present in the input tumors. No similar book has been yet released to implementation advice from the experts images, enhance the accuracy of medical diagnosis the market. and facilitate the best treatment planning system From the contents designs. The focus of this book in towards the state Features Defense and counter-defense in the RNAi-based of the art techniques in the area of image segmen- 7 Proposes a new approach (paradigm shift) antiviral immune system in insects.- RNAi and tation and registration. Multidisciplinary basis 7 Healthcare importance cellular miRNAs in infections by mammalian and practicability 7 Similar book is absent on the viruses.- Viral miRNAs.- Progress in RNAi-based Features market 7 Relatively wide readership antiviral therapeutics.- Chemical modification 7 Combining Registration and Segmentation of small interfering RNA.- Viral small RNA Techniques 7 Segmentation Application to Pros- Fields of interest cloning and sequencing.- Visitor, an informatic thesis Design and Brain 7 Role of Segmentation Cancer Research; Human Physiology; Pharma- pipeline for analysis of viral siRNA sequencing in Autistic and Normal Brains 7 Ocular Thermo cology/Toxicology datasets.- Computational prediction of viral graphic Sequence Analysis 7 3D Ultrasound miRNAs.- Detection of Viral microRNAs by Image Segmentation Target groups Northern Blot Analysis.- Detection of viral Professional/practitioner microRNA with S1 Nuclease Protection assay.- Fields of interest Characterization of RISC associated adenoviral Biomedicine general; Imaging / Radiology; Image Discount group small RNAs.- Identification of Viral Suppressors Processing and Computer Vision P of RNAi by a Reporter Assay in Drosophila S2 Cell Culture.- Dicer assay in Drosophila S2 cell Target groups extract.- Slicer activity in Drosophila melanogaster Research S2 extract.- Gel Mobility Shift Assays for RNA- binding viral RNAi suppressors. Discount group P Fields of interest Human Genetics; Virology
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Due April 2011 Due February 2011 Due March 2011 2011. 355 p. 58 illus., 19 in color. (Methods in Molecular 2011. 650 p. 250 illus., 125 in color. Hardcover 2011. X, 490 p. Hardcover Biology, Volume 721) Hardcover 7 approx. $239.00 7 $209.00 7 approx. $139.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-8203-2 ISBN 978-94-007-0488-6 ISBN 978-1-61779-036-2 10 Biomedicine Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
S. D. Satyanarayanajois, University of Louisiana, M. Schwanstecher, TU Braunschweig, Germany (Ed.) K. Söderhäll, Uppsala University, Sweden (Ed.) Monroe, LA, USA (Ed.) Diabetes – Perspectives in Invertebrate Immunity Drug Design and Discovery Drug Therapy It can be seen that the insects are the still attracting Methods and Protocols most research and researchers. However, an The chapters of this book report cutting-edge increasing interest is emerging to study new inver- Research in the pharmaceutical sciences and research on molecular events in adiposity and type tebrate groups, especially those where the genome medicinal chemistry has taken an important new 2 diabetes, thus opening the way for innovative is known. Even though Drosophila has been and direction in the past two decades with a focus on drug-based therapeutic strategies. It addresses still is an excellent model for immune studies, it is large molecules, especially peptides and proteins, all those who wish to keep in touch with recent now clear that there are great differences between as well as DNA therapeutics. In Drug Design and developments in the field. immune responses in Drosophila and that of Discovery: Methods and Protocols, leading experts several other invertebrates, which indeed calls for provide an in-depth view of key protocols that are Features more research on other invertebrates commonly used in drug discovery laboratories. 7 Features excellent reviews of international Covering both classic and cutting-edge techniques, experts on cutting edge diabetes research Features this volume explores computational docking, 7 Provides a detailed up to date overview of 7 Describes diversity between different inverte- quantitative structure-activity relationship cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in brate animal groups 7 Shows that the prophe- (QSAR), peptide synthesis, labeling of peptides and obesity driven development of type 2 diabetes noloxidase activating system and the induction proteins with fluorescent labels, DNA-microarray, 7 Focuses on potential novel drug targets, thus of the Toll pathway in an insect share the same zebrafish model for drug screening, and other opening the way for innovative strategies in proteolytic cascade 7 Displays a growing interest analytical screening and biological assays that are diabetes and obesity therapy in invertebrate immunity, which is the study of the routinely used during the drug discovery process. link between physiology and immunity Contents Features Preface. Targeting type 2 diabetes. Dual acting Contents 7 Explores computational, spectroscopic, analyt- and pan-PPAR activators as potential anti-diabetic Cnidarian immunity: a tale of two barriers.- ical, purification, and molecular biology methods, therapies. GLP-agonists and Dipeptidyl-Peptidase gastropod immunobiology.- bivalve immunity.- as well as cellular assays 7 Provides an in-depth IV Inhibitors. Cannabinoids and endocan- earthworm immunity.- lech immunity: from brain view of protocols used most commonly in drug nabinoids in metabolic disorders with focus on to peripheral - responses.- innate immunity in discovery laboratories 7 Features expert tips and diabetes. SGLT Inhibitors as New Therapeutic c. elegans.- immunocompetent molecules and vital implementation advice Tools in the Treatment of Diabetes. Inhibitors their response network in horseshoe crabs.- tick of 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in innate immunity.- beetle immunity.- immunity in From the contents antidiabetic therapy. Nampt and its potential role lepidopteran insects.- fly immunity: recognition of Virtual Screening for Lead Discovery.- Computer- in inflammation and type 2 diabetes. Inhibition pathogens and induction of immune responses.- Aided Drug Discovery and Development.- Using of ganglioside biosynthesis as a novel therapeutic mosquito immunity.- crustacean immunity.- Active Site Mapping and Receptor-Based Pharma- approach in insulin resistance. Overcoming Insulin echinoderm immunity.- urochordate immunity. cophore Tools: Prelude to Docking and De Novo/ Resistance with Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor. Ther- Fragment-Based Ligand Design.- Methods for mogenesis and related metabolic targets in Fields of interest Evaluation of Structural and Biological Properties anti-diabetic therapy. Interleukin targeted therapy Biomedicine general; Immunology of Anti-Invasive Natural Products.- Solid-Phase for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Fruc- Peptide Synthesis Using Microwave Irradia- tose-1, 6-Bisphosphatase Inhibitors for Reducing Target groups tion.- Fluorescent and Lanthanide Labeling for Excessive Endogenous Glucose Production in Type Research Ligand Screens, Assays, and Imaging.- DNA- 2 Diabetes. Directed Assembly Microarray for Protein and Discount group Small Molecule Inhibitor Screening.- Selection of Fields of interest P Peptide Ligands for Human Placental Transcytosis Pharmacology/Toxicology; Human Physiology; Systems Using In vitro Phage Display. Cell Biology
Fields of interest Target groups Pharmacology/Toxicology; Laboratory Medicine Research
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Due January 2011 Due February 2011 Due April 2011 2011. XXIV, 314 p. 63 illus., 13 in color. (Advances in 2011. 275 p. 78 illus., 6 in color. (Methods in Molecular 2011. Approx. 400 p. (Handbook of Experimental Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 708) Biology, Volume 716) Hardcover Pharmacology, Volume 203) Hardcover Hardcover 7 $119.00 7 approx. $469.00 7 $209.00 ISBN 978-1-61779-011-9 ISBN 978-3-642-17213-7 ISBN 978-1-4419-8058-8 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Biomedicine 11
R. L. Thurmond, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical J. Várkonyi, Semmelwies University, Budapest, J. Zhou, G. Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, CA, USA Hungary (Ed.) Beijing, China; X. Yan, National Institute of Standards (Ed.) and Technology (NIST), Rockville, MD, USA The Myelodysplastic Histamine in Inflammation Syndromes Encyclopedia of Traditional The year 2010 marks the centennial for the iden- Chinese Medicines – Molecular tification of histamine and the first glimpse of its Features Structures, Pharmacological many physiological functions. From these initial 7 Updated patient stratification for the different Activities, Natural Sources and findings a rich tapestry of research has uncovered therapeutical modalities 7 Updated disease clas- roles for histamine in almost every physiological sification 7 Update of the available therapies Applications process with new findings emerging every year. Vol. 1: Isolated Compounds A-C These diverse roles of histamine have made for Contents fertile ground for the discovery of novel therapeu- 1. PREFACE.- 2. The history of the Myelodys- This set of six volumes provides a systematic tics, and these drugs have been so successful that plastic Syndromes.- 3. Susceptibility to MDS: DNA and standardized description of 23,033 chemical the term “antihistamine” has entered the common repair and detoxification genes.- 4. Myelodys- components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, lexicon. This book is an attempt to give a snapshot plastic syndromes/neoplasms: Morphological collected from 5,535 books/articles published in in time as to the current understanding of the role and Immunohistochemical features and standard Chinese and international journals. A chemical of histamine in just one important therapeutic evaluation.- 5. Diagnostic Criteria and Clas- structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided area—inflammation. sification of Myelodysplastic Syndromes.- 6. for each chemical component, in addition to Cytogenetics of MDS.- 7. Molecular changes in conventional information, such as Chinese and Features myelodysplastic syndrome.- 8. Prognostic Scoring English names, physical and chemical proper- 7 Provides an overview of the pharmacology of in MDS.- 9. Flow Cytometry in Myelodysplastic ties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants the four histamine receptors and describes how Syndromes.- 10. MDS as an Autoimmune Process.- from which the chemical component was isolated. histamine is synthesized and the insights derived 11. The Myelodysplastic Overlap Syndromes.- 12. Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for from mice where this synthesis is disrupted Iron and copper Metabolismin the Myelodysplastic nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, 7 Discusses the important role of histamine Syndromes.- 13. Pathogenesis and Management including experimental method, experimental in neurotransmission and for the treatment of of Iron Overload in MDS.- 14. Cytokines in MDS. animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as various neurological disorders 7 Explains the Abnormalities and treatment.- 15. Therapeutic control compound data. The seven indexes allow future of antihistamine research and the poten- Modalities and new molecular targets in MDS.- for complete cross-indexing. tial for novel antihistamines targeting the newest 16. Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in members of the histamine receptor family—the H3 MDS for Adults.- 17. JMML and Myelodysplastic Features and H4 receptors Syndrome in children. 7 For the first time, a collection of more than 20,000 chemical components of medicinal plants Contents Fields of interest for studying TCM is provided 7 Has a systematic One Hundred Years of Histamine Research.- Biomedicine general; Hematology; Medicine/ and integrated approach 7 With seven indexes Molecular Pharmacology of the Four Histamine Public Health, general the information in the book can be retrieved in Receptors.- Histamine Synthesis and Lessons multiple ways Learned from Histidine Decarboxylase Deficient Target groups Mice.- Histamine in Allergic Rhinitis.- The Role Professional/practitioner Contents of Histamine in Ocular Allergy.- The Role of Hista- Introduction.- How to Use This Book.- Abbrevia- mine in Asthma.- Antihistamines in the Treatment Discount group tions and Symbols.- Cancer Cell Codes in Phar- of Urticaria.- Histamine and Antihistamines in P macological Models.-Isolated Compounds A—C Atopic Dermatitis.- Histamine, Immune Cells and (Entries 1-4594). Autoimunity.- Histamine in Neurotransmisi on and Brain Diseases.- Histamine in Normal and Fields of interest Malignant Cell Proliferation.- The Future Antihis- Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Pharma- tamines: Histamine H3 and H4 Receptor Ligands. cology/Toxicology; Biochemistry, general
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Due February 2011 Due March 2011 Due March 2011 2011. 594 p. Hardcover 2011. XVIII, 144 p. 24 illus. (Advances in Experimental 7 $349.00 Medicine and Biology, Volume 709) Hardcover 2011. X, 490 p. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-642-16734-8 7 $189.00 7 $209.00 Also available as a set ISBN 978-1-4419-8055-7 ISBN 978-94-007-0439-8 ISBN 978-3-642-17733-0 12 Biomedicine Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
J. Zhou, G. Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, J. Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; J. Zhou, G. Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; X. Yan, National Institute of Standards G. Xie, Beijing, China; X. Yan, National Institute of Beijing, China; X. Yan, National Institute of Standards an Technology (NIST), Rockville, MD, USA Standards an Technology (NIST), Rockville, MD, USA an Technology (NIST), Rockville, MD, USA Encyclopedia of Traditional Encyclopedia of Traditional Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines – Molecular Chinese Medicines – Molecular Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, Pharmacological Structures, Pharmacological Structures, Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources and Activities, Natural Sources and Activities, Natural Sources and Applications Applications Applications Vol. 2: Isolated Compounds D-G Vol. 3: Isolated Compounds H-M Vol. 4: Isolated Compounds N-S
This set of six volumes provides a systematic This set of six volumes provides a systematic This set of six volumes provides a systematic and standardized description of 23,033 chemical and standardized description of 23,033 chemical and standardized description of 23,033 chemical components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, collected from 5,535 books/articles published in collected from 5,535 books/articles published in collected from 5,535 books/articles published in Chinese and international journals. A chemical Chinese and international journals. A chemical Chinese and international journals. A chemical structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided for each chemical component, in addition to for each chemical component, in addition to for each chemical component, in addition to conventional information, such as Chinese and conventional information, such as Chinese and conventional information, such as Chinese and English names, physical and chemical proper- English names, physical and chemical proper- English names, physical and chemical proper- ties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants ties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants ties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants from which the chemical component was isolated. from which the chemical component was isolated. from which the chemical component was isolated. Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, including experimental method, experimental including experimental method, experimental including experimental method, experimental animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as control compound data. The seven indexes allow control compound data. The seven indexes allow control compound data. The seven indexes allow for complete cross-indexing. for complete cross-indexing. for complete cross-indexing.
Features Features Features 7 For the first time, a collection of more than 7 For the first time, a collection of more than 7 For the first time, a collection of more than 20,000 chemical components of medicinal plants 20,000 chemical components of medicinal plants 20,000 chemical components of medicinal plants for studying TCM is provided 7 Has a systematic for studying TCM is provided 7 Has a systematic for studying TCM is provided 7 Has a systematic and integrated approach 7 With seven indexes and integrated approach 7 With seven indexes and integrated approach 7 With seven indexes the information in the book can be retrieved in the information in the book can be retrieved in the information in the book can be retrieved in multiple ways multiple ways multiple ways
Contents Contents Contents Isolated Compounds D—G (Entries 4595-9185). Isolated Compounds H—M (Entries 9186-15227). Isolated Compounds N—S (Entries 15228-20574).
Fields of interest Fields of interest Fields of interest Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Pharma- Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Pharma- Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Pharma- cology/Toxicology; Biochemistry, general cology/Toxicology; Biochemistry, general cology/Toxicology; Biochemistry, general
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J. Zhou, G. Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, J. Zhou, G. Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; X. Yan, National Institute of Standards Beijing, China; X. Yan, National Institute of Standards an Technology (NIST), Rockville, MD, USA an Technology (NIST), Rockville, MD, USA Encyclopedia of Traditional Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines – Molecular Chinese Medicines – Molecular Structures, Pharmacological Structures, Pharmacological Activities, Natural Sources and Activities, Natural Sources and Applications Applications Vol. 5: Isolated Compounds T-Z, References, Vol. 6: Indexes TCM Plants and Congeners This set of six volumes provides a systematic This set of six volumes provides a systematic and standardized description of 23,033 chemical and standardized description of 23,033 chemical components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, components isolated from 6,926 medicinal plants, collected from 5,535 books/articles published in collected from 5,535 books/articles published in Chinese and international journals. A chemical Chinese and international journals. A chemical structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided structure with stereo-chemistry bonds is provided for each chemical component, in addition to for each chemical component, in addition to conventional information, such as Chinese and conventional information, such as Chinese and English names, physical and chemical proper- English names, physical and chemical proper- ties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants ties. It includes a name list of medicinal plants from which the chemical component was isolated. from which the chemical component was isolated. Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for Furthermore, abundant pharmacological data for nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, nearly 8,000 chemical components are presented, including experimental method, experimental including experimental method, experimental animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as animal, cell type, quantitative data, as well as control compound data. The seven indexes allow control compound data. The seven indexes allow for complete cross-indexing. for complete cross-indexing. Features Features 7 For the first time, a collection of more than 7 For the first time, a collection of more than 20,000 chemical components of medicinal plants 20,000 chemical components of medicinal plants for studying TCM is provided 7 Has a systematic for studying TCM is provided 7 Has a systematic and integrated approach 7 With seven indexes and integrated approach 7 With seven indexes the information in the book can be retrieved in the information in the book can be retrieved in multiple ways multiple ways Contents Contents Indexes.- Compound Pharmacological Activity Isolated Compounds T—Z (Entries 20575-23033).- Index.- Compound Molecular Formula Index.- References for Isolated Compounds.- TCM Compound Side Name Index.- TCM Plant English Original Plants and Congeners (Entries T0001- Name Index.- TCM Plant PINYIN and Chinese T6926).- Key References. Name Index.- TCM Plant Effects Index.- TCM Plant Indications Index. Fields of interest Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Pharma- Fields of interest cology/Toxicology; Biochemistry, general Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Pharma- cology/Toxicology; Biochemistry, general Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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J. M. Davis, California State University, East Bay, M. B. Gregerson, The Family Therapy Institute of J. L. Matson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Hayward, CA; J. Broitman, San Francisco Alexandria, VA, USA (Ed.) LA, USA (Ed.) Psychotherapy Research Group, San Francisco, CA The Cinematic Mirror for Applied Behavior Analysis for Nonverbal Learning Psychology and Life Coaching Children with Autism Disabilities in Children Spectrum Disorders Bridging the Gap Between Science and Cinema both reflects life and contours life—that Practice is its psychological power. And for decades, clini- Autism was once thought of as a rare condition, cians and educators have recognized the value of until the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- Although it has yet to be recognized by the this power, using it to respectively heal in therapy tion’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and educate in the classroom. The Cinematic Monitoring Network released the statistic that and Statistical Manual (DSM), nonverbal learning Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching mines about 1 in every 150 eight-year-old children in disabilities (NVLD) in children are a growing the illustrative value of cinema, offering thera- various areas across the United States is afflicted concern. NVLD are receiving increased attention pists and life coaches access to ideas that can by an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. This from researchers as well as from clinicians encoun- motivate and enlighten clients. Although many news led to a dramatic expansion of research into tering these conditions in their young clients. At movie guides exist, this volume complements the autism spectrum disorders and to the emergence the same time, reliable information on effec- available literature by adding positive psychology, of applied behavior analysis (ABA) as the preferred tive interventions for NVLD has lagged behind mental health, and wellness perspectives to the method of treatment, even among prescribing this interest.Nonverbal Learning Disabilities in clinical/educational/coaching mix. The serious practitioners. Children: Bridging the Gap Between Science and intent to cull from cinema its underlying psycho- Practice offers a well-rounded understanding logical value has motivated noted clinicians, life of NVLD, placing it within the context of other coaches, and cultural critics to offer science-based Features developmental disorders, most notably high-func- analysis and intervention strategies. Readers may 7 Offers an extensive scholarly review of the tioning autism and Asperger’s syndrome. The most add their own movie insights and professional current applied behavioral analysis (ABA) litera- current genetic, environmental, and neurobio- expertise to this rich foundation. ture on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) logical theories of and research into the causes of 7 Synthesizes the major topics in the assessment NVLD (e.g., the “white matter model”), in-depth Field of interest and treatment with ASD and ABA 7 Focuses diagnostic methods, and quality interventions are Clinical Psychology specifically, and only, on ABA treatments in a very examined. in-depth manner Target groups Features Professional/practitioner Contents 7 Provides easily accessible knowledge and tools History and Overview.- Applied Behavior Analysis to practitioners involved in the identification of Discount group and its Application to Autism and Autism Related and subsequent treatment for NVLD P Disorders.- Assessment.- Intervention and Treat- 7 Provides a comprehensive overview for school- ment Methods for Children with Autism Spectrum and community-based practitioners who work Disorders.- Differential Diagnosis in Autism Spec- with children on how to identify, assess, and treat trum Disorders.- Communication.- Social Skills NLVD 7 It offers readers direction and advice and Autism: Understanding and Addressing the that they can immediately put into effect in their Deficits.- Rituals and Stereotypies.- Self-Injury.- school and community practices Aggression and Noncompliance.- Adaptive and Self-Help Skills.- Generalization and Mainte- Fields of interest nance.- Training Issues Unique to Autism Spec- Child and School Psychology; Social Work; Educa- trum Disorders.- Parent Training Interventions for tion (general) Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Index.
Target groups Fields of interest Professional/practitioner Child and School Psychology; Psychiatry; Educa- tion (general) Discount group P Target groups Professional/practitioner
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J. L. Matson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, M. Otto, S. Hofmann, Boston University, Boston, MA, M. A. Rapoff, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA (Ed.) USA (Eds.) Kansas City, KS, USA Social Behavior and Skills in Avoiding Treatment Failures Adherence to Pediatric Children in the Anxiety Disorders Medical Regimens
That children are capable of pathology—not only Extensive studies have shown cognitive-behavioral It used to be called noncompliance, and the such conditions as ADHD and learning disabili- therapy to be highly effective in treating anxiety patients themselves referred to as difficult. But ties, but also such “adult” disorders as anxiety disorders, improving patients’ social functioning, regardless of the terminology, children’s reluc- and depression—stands as a defining moment in job performance, and quality of life. Yet every CBT tance or failure to commit to prescribed regimens psychology’s recent history. Within this recogni- clinician faces some amount of client resistance, reduces the effectiveness of treatment, often tion is the understanding that the social skills whether in the form of “This won’t work”, “I’m too leading to additional care, higher costs, and deficits that accompany these disorders must be depressed”, or even “You can’t make me!” Avoiding serious, even deadly, complications. Reflecting a targeted for assessment and treatment to ensure Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders single, authoritative voice, the Second Edition of optimal functioning in school, with peers, and analyzes the challenges presented by non-compli- Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens analyzes in later transitions to puberty and adulthood. ance, and provides disorder- and population- in comprehensive clinical detail the factors that Social Behavior and Skills in Children cuts across specific guidance in addressing the impasses and affect children’s and teens’ commitment to treat- disciplinary lines to clarify the scope of assess- removing the obstacles that derail therapy. ment – from developmental issues to the influence ment options and interventions for a wide range of parents, peers, and others in their orbit – and of disorders. A panel of leading scholars reviews Features offers empirically sound guidelines for encour- current research, discusses social deficits unique 7 Addresses difficulties in anxiety treatment aging adherence. It cautions against viewing young to specific disorders, and identifies evidence-based 7 Section devoted to case examples 7 Section clients as miniature grownups or scaling down best practices in one authoritative, approachable on special populations with an emphasis on adult data, advocating instead for a more nuanced reference. comorbidity understanding of the population and a collabora- tive relationship between practitioner and client. Features Contents 7 Fills a much needed information gap by I. General Aspects of Treatment Complications. Features providing clinicians, researchers, and graduate Introduction. A Case Formulation Approach to 7 The first single authored, comprehensive treat- students in the fields of clinical child, school, Resolving Treatment Resistance. Helping Exposure ment of the topic of adhering to pediatric medical and developmental psychology a comprehensive Succeed: Learning Theory Perspectives on Treat- regimens 7 Focuses on the current issues scholarly review of the subject 7 Addresses ment Resistance and Relapse. Therapeutic Alliance relevant to researchers and clinicians 7 Provides topics that cut across a wide range of disciplines and Common Factors in Treatment. Combined up-to-date information on pediatric regimens and childhood disorders 7 Focuses on evidence- Cognitive Behavioral and Pharmacologic Treat- written in comprehensive format with the voice based assessment and intervention for childhood ment Strategies: Current Status and Future of a single author, unlike other edited books that behavior problems and disorders Directions. Cultural Considerations and Treatment usually focus on specific diseases or on adults only Complications.- II. Avoiding Treatment Failures: From the contents Disorder-Specific Perspectives. Avoiding Treat- Contents History and Overview.- Theories of social ment Failures in Panic Disorder. Avoiding Treat- Definitions, Types, and Prevalence of Nonadher- competence from the top-down to the bottom- ment Failures in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. ence.- Consequences, and Correlates.- Adherence up: A case for considering foundational human Avoiding Treatment Failures in PTSD. Avoiding Theories: Review, Critique, and Clinical Implica- needs.- Etiology and Relationships to Develop- Treatment Failures in Social Anxiety Disorder. tions.- Assessing Adherence.- Assessing Disease mental Disabilities and Psychopathology.- General Avoiding Treatment Failures in Generalized and Health Status.- Strategies for Improving Methods of Assessment.- General Methods of Anxiety Disorder. Avoiding Treatment Failures in Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens.- Treatment.- Challenging Behaviors.- Social Skills Specific Phobias. Review of Adherence Intervention Studies and in Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Intellectual Recommendation for Research in Clinical Prac- Disability and Adaptive-Social Skills.- Attention- Fields of interest tice.- References.- Appendix.- Index. Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy Fields of interest Fields of interest Target groups Child and School Psychology; Pediatrics; Clinical Child and School Psychology; Psychiatry; Educa- Professional/practitioner Psychology tion (general) Discount group Target groups Target groups P Research Professional/practitioner Discount group Discount group P P
Due November 2010 Due December 2010 Due December 2010 2010. XIV, 405 p. (Series in Anxiety and Related 2nd ed. 2010. XII, 232 p. (Issues in Clinical Child 2009. X, 334 p. Softcover Disorders) Softcover Psychology) Softcover 7 approx. $49.95 7 $59.95 7 $49.95 ISBN 978-1-4419-8177-6 ISBN 978-1-4419-8169-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-8143-1 16 Psychology Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
W. Sailor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA; R. G. Steen, Medical Communications Consultants, G. Dunlap, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Chapel Hill, NC, USA USA; G. Sugai, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; R. Horner, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, Human Intelligence and USA (Eds.) Medical Illness Handbook of Positive Assessing the Flynn Effect
Behavior Support There’s little doubt that people are growing smarter. This effect is so strong that IQ tests must A revolution in working with difficult students be renormed periodically to prevent classifying an began during the 1980s, with a dramatic shift overabundance of people as geniuses. The ques- away from dependence on simply punishing bad tion is why is this collective rise in IQ – known as behavior to reinforcing desired, positive behaviors the Flynn effect –occurring? Possible theories to of children in the classroom. With its founda- explain the Flynn effect have ranged from better tion in applied behavior analysis (ABA), posi- parenting to faster evolution. Bringing a bold tive behavior support (PBS) is a social ecology new voice to the debate, Human Intelligence and approach that continues to play an increasingly Medical Illness sets out a simple definition of intel- integral role in public education as well as mental ligence that is appropriate for assessing intelligence health and social services nationwide. at the population level. The definition is then used to probe the relationship between population intel- Features ligence and public health. This volume uses the 7 Offers, in one concise volume, the many latest medical and behavioral science research to elements of the burgeoning field of positive argue that declines in serious disease and illness- behavior support (PBS) and organizes them into causing conditions (e.g., lead paint in buildings) a powerful, dynamic knowledge base, including correlate strongly with continued cognitive gains theory, research, and applications 7 Reviews the in both developed and developing countries. origins, history, and ethical foundations of PBS 7 Relates schoolwide PBS that can be imple- Features mented to benefit all students – regardless of level 7 Examines the global links between the rise of ability or conduct in IQ – known as the Flynn Effect – and general human health 7 Assesses whether public health From the contents improvements potentially account for the Flynn Origins and History of Positive Behavior Support.- Effect 7 Details how treatment of common The Intellectual Roots of Positive Behavior Support medical problems may result in a substantial IQ and Their Implications for Its Development.- Posi- rise 7 Explores whether additional and substan- tive Behavior Support and Early Intervention.- tial IQ gains are possible in the U.S. and the world Toward an Ecological Unit of Analysis in Behav- ioral Assessment and Intervention with Families From the contents of Children with Developmental Disabilities.- Are People Getting Smarter?.- Human IQ and Positive Behavior Support and Early Intervention Increasing Intelligence.- Evolution and Increasing for Young Children with Autism.- Integrating a Intelligence.- Brain Development and Increasing Positive Behavior Support Approach within Head Intelligence.- Environment and Increasing Intelli- Start.- Empirically-Supported Intervention Prac- gence.- Evidence of Physical Plasticity in Humans.- tices for Autism Spectrum Disorders in School and Evidence of Mental Plasticity in Humans.- Community Settings. Evidence of Language Plasticity in Humans.
Fields of interest Fields of interest Child and School Psychology; Education (general); Developmental Psychology; Sociology of Educa- Psychotherapy and Counseling tion; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen
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H. Bahouri, Université de Tunis, Manar, Tunisia; D. Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA; R. Martí, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain; J. Chemin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, J. M. Martell, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, G. Reinelt, University of Heidelberg, Germany France; R. Danchin, Université Paris-Est, France Madrid, Spain; C. Perez, University of Sevilla, Spain The Linear Ordering Problem Fourier Analysis and Weights, Extrapolation and Exact and Heuristic Methods in Nonlinear Partial Differential the Theory of Rubio de Combinatorial Optimization Equations Francia Faced with the challenge of solving the hard In recent years, the Fourier analysis methods The extrapolation theorem of Rubio de Francia is optimization problems that abound in the real have expereinced a growing interest in the study one of the deepest results in the study of weighted world, existing methods often encounter great of partial differential equations. In particular, norm inequalities in harmonic analysis. This book difficulties. Important applications in business, those techniques based on the Littlewood-Paley provides a comprehensive treatment of extrapola- engineering or economics cannot be tackled by decomposition have proved to be very efficient for tion theory. Starting from an extremely clear and the techniques that have formed the predominant the study of evolution equations. The present book simple proof of the classical result of Rubio de focus of academic research throughout the past aims at presenting self-contained, state- of- the- art Francia, we show how the key ideas can be used three decades. Exact and heuristic approaches are models of those techniques with applications to to extend the theory to a number of contexts. dramatically changing our ability to solve prob- different classes of partial differential equations: Our treatment generalizes and unifies all existing lems of practical significance and are extending transport, heat, wave and Schrödinger equa- results in one-weight extrapolation theory. In the the frontier of problems that can be handled tions. It also offers more sophisticated models two-weight case we systematically develop a new effectively. This monograph details state-of-the-art originating from fluid mechanics (in particular the approach to extrapolation and factorization that optimization methods, both exact and heuristic, incompressible and compressible Navier-Stokes is closely tied to existing theory of two-weight for the LOP. The authors employ the LOP to illus- equations) or general relativity. It is either directed norm inequalities. We give a large number of trate contemporary optimization technologies as to anyone with a good undergraduate level of applications that include both new results and new well as how to design successful implementations knowledge in analysis or useful for experts who techniques that can be applied in other settings. of exact and heuristic procedures. Therefore, they are eager to know the benefit that one might gain do not limit the scope of this book to the LOP, but from Fourier analysis when dealing with nonlinear Features on the contrary, provide the reader with the back- partial differential equations. 7 No other book available devoted to the theory ground and practical strategies in optimization to of extrapolation 7 Only treatment of extrapo- tackle different combinatorial problems. Features lation and factorization and its applications to 7 First accessible work giving an exhaustive and two-weight norm inequalities 7 Introduction Features up-to-date presentation of how to use Fourier of new techniques for proving two-weight norm 7 Self-contained monograph on algorithmic analysis to study PDEs 7 Written by experts in inequalities 7 Careful analysis of the proof of issues related to the linear ordering problem the field of Fourier analysis, this work presents a the classical extrapolation theorem of Rubio de 7 Comprehensive general introduction to algo- self-contained state of the art of techniques with Francia, demonstration of how the key ideas can rithms for computing approximate and exact solu- applications to different classes of PDEs 7 Both be generalized to a wide variety of settings tions of combinatorial optimization problems accessible to anyone with a good undergraduate 7 Accessible without deep mathematical back- level in analysis, as well as to experts and researchers From the contents ground Part I. One-Weight Extrapolation.- Chapter 1. From the contents Introduction to Norm Inequalities and Extrapola- Contents 1. Basic analysis.- 2. Littlewood-Paley theory.- tion.- Chapter 2. The Essential Theorem.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- 2 Heuristic Methods.- 3 Meta- 3. Transport and transport-diffusion equations.- 3. Extrapolation for Muckenhoupt Bases.- Chapter Heuristics.- 4 Branch-and-Bound.- 5 Branch-and- 4. Quasilinear symmetric systems.- 5. Incom- 4. Extrapolation on Function Spaces.- Part II. Two- Cut.- 6 The Linear Ordering Polytope.- 7 Further pressible Navier-Stokes system.- 6. Anisotropic Weight Factorization and Extrapolation.- Chapter 5. Aspects.- References.- Index. viscosity.- 7. Euler system for perfect incompress- Preliminary Results.- Chapter 6. Two-Weight Factor- ible fluids.- 8. Strichartz estimates and applications ization.- Chapter 7. Two-Weight Extrapolation. Fields of interest to semilinear dispersive equations.- 9. Smoothing Algorithms; Optimization; Discrete Mathematics effect in quasilinear wave equations. Fields of interest in Computer Science Analysis Fields of interest Target groups Analysis; Partial Differential Equations Target groups Research Research Target groups Discount group Research Discount group P P Discount group P
Due February 2011 Due January 2011 Due April 2011 2011. XVI, 522 p. (Grundlehren der mathematischen 2011. 171 p. 38 illus., 12 in color. (Applied Mathematical Wissenschaften, Volume 343) Hardcover 2011. 290 p. Hardcover Sciences, Volume 175) Hardcover 7 $129.00 7 approx. $109.00 7 approx. $109.00 ISBN 978-3-642-16829-1 ISBN 978-3-0348-0071-6 ISBN 978-3-642-16728-7 18 Mathematics Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
R. Porzel, University of Bremen, Germany G. Sommaruga, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Ed.) S. Vasishth, University of Potsdam, Germany; M. Broe, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Contextual Computing Foundational Theories of Models and Applications Classical and Constructive The Foundations of Statistics: Mathematics A Simulation-based Approach Recent advances in the fields of knowledge repre- sentation, reasoning and human-computer interac- The book “Foundational Theories of Classical Statistics and hypothesis testing are routinely used tion have paved the way for a novel approach to and Constructive Mathematics” is a book on the in areas (such as linguistics) that are traditionally treating and handling context. The field of research classical topic of foundations of mathematics. Its not mathematically intensive. In such fields, when presented in this book addresses the problem of originality resides mainly in its treating at the same faced with experimental data, many students and contextual computing in artificial intelligence time foundations of classical and foundations of researchers tend to rely on commercial packages based on the state of the art in knowledge repre- constructive mathematics. This confrontation of to carry out statistical data analysis, often without sentation and human-computer interaction. The two kinds of foundations contributes to answering understanding the logic of the statistical tests author puts forward a knowledge-based approach questions such as: Are foundations/foundational they rely on. As a consequence, results are often for employing high-level context in order to theories of classical mathematics of a different misinterpreted, and users have difficulty in flexibly solve some persistent and challenging prob- nature compared to those of constructive math- applying techniques relevant to their own research lems in the chosen showcase domain of natural ematics? Do they play the same role for the resp. – they use whatever they happen to have learned. language understanding. Specifically, the problems mathematics? Are there connections between the A simple solution is to teach the fundamental ideas addressed concern the handling of noise due to two kinds of foundational theories? etc. of statistical hypothesis testing without using too speech recognition errors, semantic ambiguities, much mathematics. This book provides a non- and the notorious problem of underspecification. Features mathematical, simulation-based introduction to 7 One of the first confrontations of foundations basic statistical concepts and encourages readers Features of classical and foundations of constructive math- to try out the simulations themselves using the 7 The monograph explores the use of context ematics 7 A technical and philosophical treat- source code and data provided (the freely available in NLP through a range of demonstrations and ment of the subject 7 An extensive philosophical programming language R is used throughout). experiments 7 A significant and timely contribu- reflection on the meaning and use of foundations tion to the field of Contextual Computing 7 This in mathematics Features book is a novel and insightful investigation into 7 Assumes only high school level mathematics the potential of contextual information processing From the contents (pre-calculus) 7 Instead of formal proofs, in NLP Introduction : Giovanni Sommaruga simulations are used to explain the key concepts Part I: Senses of ‚foundations of mathematics’ 7 Provides all source code to allow the reader to Contents Bob Hale, The Problem of Mathematical Objects carry out the simulations themselves 1. The Problem of Understanding .- 2. State of the Goeffrey Hellman, Foundational Frameworks Art.- 3. Domain and Discourse.- 4. User and Situa- Penelope Maddy, Set Theory as a Foundation Stew- Contents tion.- 5. Conclusion.- References . art Shapiro, Foundations, Foundationalism, and 1. Getting Started.- 2. Randomness and Prob- Category Theory.- Part II: Foundations of classical ability.- 3. The Sampling Distribution of the Fields of interest mathematics Steve Awodey, From Sets to Types, to Sample Mean.- 4. Power.- 5. Analysis of Vari- Applications of Mathematics; Artificial Intelligence Categories, to Sets Solomon Feferman, Enriched ance (NOVA).- 6. Bivariate Statistics and Linear (incl. Robotics); Computational Linguistics Stratified Systems for the Foundations of Category Models.- 7. An Introduction to Linear Mixed Theory Colin McLarty, Recent Debate over Cat- Models. A. Random Variables.- B- Basic R Target groups egorical Foundations.- Part III: Between founda- Commands and Data Structures.- Index.- Refer- Research tions of classical and foundations of constructive ences. mathematics John Bell, The Axiom of Choice in Discount group the Foundations of Mathematics Jim Lambek and Fields of interest P Phil Scott, Reflections on a Categorical Founda- Applications of Mathematics; Psycholinguistics; tions of Mathematics. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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J. Duan, National University of Singapore, Singapore; W. K. Härdle, Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics, Berlin, Germany; J. E. Gentle, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA (Eds.) Handbook of Computational Finance
This handbook is the fourth in the Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics series. The first handbook in the series, published in 2004, was on concepts and fundamentals. It had thirty expository chapters, written by experts in various subfields of computational statistics. The chapters, which were organized into statistical computing, statistical methodology, and applica- tions, covered a wide range of topics and took the reader from the basic concepts to the current research trends. The handbook on concepts and fundamentals set the stage for future handbooks that will go more deeply into the various subfields of computational statistics. These handbooks will each be organized around either a specific class of theory and methods, or else around a specific area of application.
Features 7 Modern financial Tools 7 Computianal effi- cient algorithms 7 Pricing of complex products 7 Risk behavior 7 Pricing kernels
Contents Introduction.- Pricing Models.- Statistical Inference in Financial Models.- Computational Methods.- Software Tools.- Possible further Topics: Realized Volatility/High Frequency Data.-Micro- structure Empirical Analysis.- Option Pricing.- GARCH and Diffusion Jump Limits.- Interest Rate Derivatives.
Fields of interest Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Finance /Banking
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A. Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal; C. Cremers, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; S. Mauw, M. Debbabi, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, R. d. Lemos, University of Kent, UK; C. Gacek, City Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Canada; F. Hassaïne, Defence Research and University, London, UK (Eds.) Development Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Operational Semantics and Y. Jarraya, A. Soeanu, L. Alawneh, Concordia Architecting Dependable Verification of Security University, Montreal, QC, Canada Systems VII Protocols Verification and Validation in
As software systems become increasingly ubiqui- Security protocols are widely used to ensure secure Systems Engineering tous, issues of dependability become ever more communications over insecure networks, such Assessing UML/SysML Design Models crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must as the internet or airwaves. These protocols use be considered from the very beginning of the strong cryptography to prevent intruders from Verification and validation represents an impor- design process, it is clear that dependability and reading or modifying the messages. However, tant process used for the quality assessment of security have to be addressed at the architectural using cryptography is not enough to ensure their engineered systems and their compliance with the level. This book, as well as its six predecessors, was correctness. Combined with their typical small requirements established at the beginning of or born of an effort to bring together the research size, which suggests that one could easily assess during the development cycle. communities of software architectures, depend- their correctness, this often results in incorrectly Debbabi and his coauthors investigate methodolo- ability, and security. This state-of-the-art survey designed protocols. The authors present a meth- gies and techniques that can be employed for the contains expanded, peer-reviewed papers based odology for formally describing security protocols automatic verification and validation of systems on selected contributions from the Workshop on and their environment. This methodology includes engineering design models expressed in stan- Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2009), a model for describing protocols, their execution dardized modeling languages. Their presentation held at the International Conference on Depend- model, and the intruder model. The models are includes a bird’s eye view of the most prominent able Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), as well as extended with a number of well-defined security modeling languages for software and systems engi- a number of invited papers written by renowned properties, which capture the notions of correct neering, namely the Unified Modeling Language experts in the area. The 13 papers are organized protocols, and secrecy of data. (UML) and the more recent Systems Modeling in topical sections on: mobile and ubiquitous Language (SysML). Moreover, it elaborates on a systems, architecting systems, fault management, Features number of quantitative and qualitative techniques and experience and vision. 7 The methodology has a strong mathematical that synergistically combine automatic verification basis and the model has a strong separation of techniques, program analysis, and software engi- Features concerns 7 Useful for researchers and graduate neering quantitative methods applicable to design 7 Includes up-to-date research results on software students of information security or formal models described in these modeling languages. architectures and fault management 7 Contains methods and for advanced professionals designing four experience and vision papers 7 Addresses critical security protocols 7 Introduces new Features issues related to mobile and ubiquitous systems concepts 7 Broad and comprehensive overview of software verification and validation techniques 7 Close Fields of interest Contents integration with the UML standard 7 Theoretical Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Operational Seman- presentation complemented by numerous case Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques tics.- Security Properties.- Verification.- Multipro- studies tocol Attacks.- Generalizing NSL for Multiparty Target groups Authentication.- Related Work.- Conclusions and From the contents Research Future Work.- Index. 1 Introduction.- 2 Architecture Frameworks and Model-Driven Simulation.- 3 Unified Modeling Discount group Fields of interest Language.- 4 Systems Modeling Language.- P Data Structures, Cryptology and Information 5 Verification, Validation and Accreditation.- Theory; Computer Systems Organization and 6 Automatic Approach for Synergistic Verification Communication Networks; Software Engineering/ and Validation.- 7 Software Engineering Metrics in Programming and Operating Systems the Context of Systems Engineering.
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D. W. Embley, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, G. Engels, Universität Paderborn, Germany; T. Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan (Ed.) USA; B. Thalheim, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, C. Lewerentz, Technische Universität Cottbus, Germany (Eds.) Germany; W. Schäfer, Universität Paderborn, Culture and Computing Germany; A. Schürr, Technische Universität Darm- Handbook of Conceptual stadt, Germany; B. Westfechtel, Universität Bayreuth, Computing and Communication for Crosscultural Interaction Modeling Germany (Eds.) Theory, Practice, and Research Challenges Graph Transformations and In the light of upcoming global issues, concerning population, energy, the environment, and food, Conceptual modeling is about describing the Model-Driven Engineering information and communication technologies semantics of software applications at a high level Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the are required to overcome difficulties in commu- of abstraction in terms of structure, behavior, and Occasion of his 65th Birthday nication among cultures. In this context, the user interaction.Embley and Thalheim start with First International Conference on Culture and a manifesto stating that the dream of developing This festschrift volume, published in honor of Computing, which was held in Kyoto, Japan, in information systems strictly by conceptual Manfred Nagl on the occasion of his 65th birthday, February 2010, was conceived as a collection of modeling – as expressed in the phrase “the model contains 30 refereed contributions, edited by five symposia, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and is the code” – is becoming reality. The subsequent of his academic descendants. The types of papers guided tours intended to share issues, activi- contributions written by leading researchers in the vary significantly, including classic research papers ties, and research results regarding culture and field support the manifesto’s assertions, showing in the style of journal articles, surveys of focused computing. This volume includes 17 invited and not only how to abstractly model complex infor- research areas, essays reflecting on certain research selected papers dealing with state-of-the-art mation systems but also how to formalize abstract topics, and papers summarizing long-term work topics in culturally situated agents, intercultural specifications in ways that let developers complete conducted by Manfred Nagl. The volume is collaboration and support systems, culture and programming tasks within the conceptual model structured in five parts: graph transformations, computing for art and heritage, as well as culture itself. They are grouped into sections on program- software architectures and reengineering, process and computing within regional communities. ming with conceptual models, structure modeling, support, embedded systems engineering as well as process modeling, user interface modeling, engineering design applications. Features and special challenge areas such as conceptual 7 High-quality selected papers 7 Covers state- geometric modeling, information integration, and Features of-the-art research 7 Uniquely high-profile biological conceptual modeling. 7 Includes 30 papers 7 Types are classic research papers, surveys, essays, and summarizing From the contents Features papers 7 Papers were subject to a thorough Using Immersive Simulations to Develop Intercul- 7 Collects the best conceptual modeling ideas, quality control process tural Competence - Cross-Cultural Study on Facial techniques and practices 7 Points researchers to Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual interesting challenges in theory and practice From the contents Agents - Availability of Multilingual Chat Commu- 7 Includes applications in novel areas like spatial Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engi- nication in 3D Online Virtual Space - Capture and bioinformatics modeling and information neering: The Merits of Manfred Nagl.- The Edge of and Express Behavior Environment (CEBE) for integration 7 May serve as a comprehensive Graph Transformation—Graphs for Behavioural Realizing - Enculturating Human-Agent Interac- textbook for graduate courses Specification.- Graph Transformation by Compu- tion - Hesitation in Intercultural Communication: tational Category Theory.- On GS-Monoidal Some Observations and Analyses on Interpreting Contents Theories for Graphs with Nesting.- Stochastic Shoulder Shrugging - A Socio-Cultural Model Section I: Programming with Conceptual Models.- Modelling and Simulation of Mobile Systems.- Based on Empirical Data of Cultural and Social Section II: Structure Modelling.- Section III: Autonomous Units and Their Semantics – The Relationships - Dynamic Term Suggestion for Process Modelling.- Section IV: User Interface Concurrent Case.- Parallel Independence of Amal- Searching Multilingual School Documents - Modelling.- Section V: Special Challenge Areas. gamated Graph Transformations Applied to Model Intercultural Collaboration Support System Using Transformation. Disaster Safety Map and Machine Translation. Fields of interest Software Engineering; Information Systems Appli- Fields of interest Fields of interest cations (incl.Internet) Software Engineering; Logics and Meanings of Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Programs; Programming Languages, Compilers, Information Storage and Retrieval; User Interfaces Target groups Interpreters and Human Computer Interaction Research Target groups Target groups Discount group Research Research P Discount group Discount group P P
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T. Jansen, University College Cork, Ireland S. Jukna, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, S. Kaci, Université d'Artois, Lens, France Frankfurt/Main, Germany Analyzing Evolutionary Working with Preferences Algorithms Extremal Combinatorics Less Is More The Computer Science Perspective With Applications in Computer Science Preferences are useful in many real-life prob- Evolutionary algorithms is a class of randomized This book is a concise, self-contained, up-to- lems, guiding human decision making from heuristics inspired by natural evolution. They are date introduction to extremal combinatorics for early childhood up to complex professional and applied in many different contexts, in particular in nonspecialists. A strong emphasis is made on organizational decisions. In artificial intelligence optimization, and analysis of such algorithms has theorems with particularly elegant and informative specifically, preferences is a relatively new topic of seen tremendous advances in recent years. In this proofs which may be called gems of the theory. relevance to nonmonotonic reasoning, multiagent book the author provides an introduction to the A wide spectrum of the most powerful combina- systems, constraint satisfaction, decision making, methods used to analyze evolutionary algorithms torial tools is presented: methods of extremal set social choice theory and decision-theoretic and other randomized search heuristics. He starts theory, the linear algebra method, the probabilistic planning The first part of this book deals with with an algorithmic and modular perspective and method, and fragments of Ramsey theory. preference representation, with specific chapters gives guidelines for the design of evolutionary A thorough discussion of some recent applications dedicated to representation languages, nonmono- algorithms. He then places the approach in to computer science conveys the relevance and tonic logics of preferences, conditional preference the broader research context with a chapter on inherent usefulness of these methods in problems networks, positive and negative preferences, and theoretical perspectives. By adopting a complexity- outside combinatorics. No special combinatorial the study of preferences in cognitive psychology. theoretical perspective, he derives general or algebraic background is assumed, all necessary The second part of the book deals with reasoning limitations for black-box optimization, yielding elements of linear algebra and discrete probability with preferences, and includes chapters dedicated lower bounds on the performance of evolutionary are introduced before their combinatorial applica- to preference-based argumentation, preferences algorithms, and then develops general methods tions. Aimed primarily as an introductory text database queries, and rank-ordering outcomes for deriving upper and lower bounds step by step. for graduate students, it also provides a compact and intervals. The author concludes by examining This main part is followed by a chapter covering source of modern extremal combinatorics for forthcoming research perspectives. practical applications of these methods. researchers in computer science and other fields of discrete mathematics. Features Features 7 The book offers a thorough examination of 7 The results presented are derived in detail Features preferences from an artificial intelligence perspec- 7 Is a useful reference for both graduate students 7 A concise, self-contained, up-to-date introduc- tive 7 The author examines discusses future and researchers 7 Each chapter ends with tion to extremal combinatorics for nonspecialists research perspectives 7 A multidisciplinary detailed comments and pointers to further reading 7 No special combinatorial or algebraic back- topic, the book will be of interest to computer ground is assumed, all necessary elements of linear scientists, economists, operations researchers, Contents algebra and discrete probability are introduced mathematicians, logicians and philosophers Introduction.- Evolutionary Algorithms and 7 The second edition has been extended with Other Randomized Search Heuristics.- Theoretical substantial new material, and has been revised and Contents Perspectives on Evolutionay Algorithms.- General updated throughout Preferences Modeling.- Preferences Representation Limits in Black-Box Optimization.- Methods for Languages.- Making Hidden Priorities Explicit.- the Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms.- Selected From the contents What Psychology Has to Say About Preferences.- Topics in the Analysis of Evolutionary Algo- Preface.- Prolog: What this Book Is About.- Preferences in Argumentation Theory.- Preferences rithms.- App. A, Landau Notation.- App. B, Tail Notation.- Counting.- Advanced Counting.- in Database Queries.- Preferences Aggregation, Estimations.- App. C, Martingales and Applica- Probabilistic Counting.- The Pigeonhole Conclusion and Perspectives.- Bibliography. tions. Principle.- Systems of Distinct Representatives.- Sunflowers.- Intersecting Families.- Chains and Fields of interest Fields of interest Antichains.- Blocking Sets and the Duality.- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Operations Theory of Computation; Computational Intelli- Density and Universality. Research/Decision Theory; Logic gence; Optimization Fields of interest Target groups Target groups Theory of Computation; Number Theory; Discrete Research Research Mathematics in Computer Science Discount group Discount group Target groups P P Research
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Due February 2011 Due May 2011 Due April 2011 2nd ed. 2011. XX, 401 p. (Texts in Theoretical Computer 2011. X, 240 p. (Natural Computing Series) Hardcover Science. An EATCS Series) Hardcover 2011. X, 190 p. (Cognitive Technologies) Hardcover 7 approx. $79.95 7 approx. $99.00 7 approx. $109.00 ISBN 978-3-642-17338-7 ISBN 978-3-642-17363-9 ISBN 978-3-642-17279-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Computer Science 23
L. R. Knudsen, Technical University of Denmark, H. Kopetz, Technische Universität Wien, Austria S. Lavington, University of Essex, Colchester, UK Lyngby, Denmark; M. J. Robshaw, Orange Labs, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France Real-Time Systems Moving Targets The Block Cipher Companion Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Applications Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67 Block ciphers encrypt blocks of plaintext, messages, into blocks of ciphertext under the Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, action of a secret key, and the process of encryp- Distributed Embedded Applications is written as a as seen through the eyes of one company. It tion is reversed by decryption which uses the same standard textbook for a high-level undergraduate examines how the dawn of the digital computer user-supplied key. Block ciphers are fundamental or graduate course on real-time embedded systems age in Britain took place for different applications, to modern cryptography, in fact they are the most or cyber-physical systems. Its practical approach from early government-sponsored work on secret widely used cryptographic primitive – useful in to solving real-time problems also makes it an defence projects, to the growth of the market for their own right, and in the construction of other excellent choice for researchers and practitioners. Elliott computers for civil applications. Features: cryptographic mechanisms. In this book the Compared to the first edition, new developments charts the establishment of Elliott’s Borehamwood authors provide a technically detailed, yet read- in complexity management, energy and power Research Laboratories, and the roles played by able, account of the state of the art of block cipher management, dependability, security, and the John Coales and Leon Bagrit; examines early analysis, design, and deployment. The authors first internet of things, are addressed. The book focuses Elliott digital computers designed for classified describe the most prominent block ciphers and on hard real-time systems, which are computing military applications and for GCHQ; describes give insights into their design. They then consider systems that must meet their temporal specifica- the analogue computers developed by Elliott- the role of the cryptanalyst, the adversary, and tion in all anticipated load and fault scenarios. Automation; reviews the development of the first provide an overview of some of the most impor- commercial Elliot computers and the growth of tant cryptanalytic methods. Features applications in industrial automation; includes 7 Revised and updated version of the best-selling a history of airborne computers by a former Features 1997 first edition from key researcher in the field director of Elliott Flight Automation; discusses the 7 Written by established experts 7 Is the most 7 New developments addressed, such as energy computer architectures and systems software for comprehensive reference on the subject 7 The and power management, dependability, security, Elliott computers; investigates the mergers, take- authors include an exhaustive bibliography of the internet functions, scheduling 7 A standard text overs and eventual closure of the Borehamwood field with over 750 references in real-time embedded systems or cyber-physical laboratories. systems 7 Useful as a reference for students, Contents researchers and practitioners alike Features Introduction.- Data Encryption Standard (DES).- 7 Charts the gradual take-up of information Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).- Using Contents technology in Britain, as seen through the eyes of Block Ciphers.- Brute-Force Attacks.- Differential The Real-Time Environment.- Simplicity.- Global one innovative company 7 Examines how the Cryptanalysis.- Linear Cryptanalysis.- Advanced Time.- Real-Time (RT) Model.- Temporal Rela- dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took Topics.- A Short Survey and Five Prominent tions.- Power and Energy Awareness.- Depend- place at various times for different applications Ciphers.- Bibliography. ability.- Real-Time Communication.- Real-Time 7 Includes a history of airborne computers up to Operating Systems.- Real-Time Scheduling.- 1988, written by a former director of Elliott Flight Fields of interest System Design.- Validation.- Internet of Things.- Automation Data Structures, Cryptology and Information The Time-Triggered Architecture. Theory; Mathematics of Computing From the contents Fields of interest The Navy Comes to Borehamwood.- A Glint on Target groups Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; the Horizon.- The Secret Digit.- Analogue Exper- Graduate Circuits and Systems; System Performance and tise.- NRDC and the Market.- Process Control Evaluation and Automation: the Bagrit Vision.- Automation: Discount group the Machines and the Applications.- Software and P Target groups Applications at Borehamwood.- NCR, the 405 and Research Commercial Data Processing.- Evolution of Elliott Computer Architectures. Discount group P Fields of interest History of Computing
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G. Mazzola, Minneagpolis, MN, USA K. Sachs, I. Petrov, P. Guerrero, Technische D. Sannella, The University of Edinburgh, UK; Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Eds.) A. Tarlecki, University of Warsaw and Polish Academy Musical Performance of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland From Active Data A Comprehensive Approach: Theory, Foundations of Algebraic Analytical Tools, and Case Studies Management to Event-Based Systems and More Specification and Formal This book is a first sketch of what the overall field Papers in Honor of Alejandro Buchmann on Software Development of performance could look like as a modern scien- the Occasion of His 60th Birthday tific field but not its stylistically differentiated prac- This book provides foundations for software speci- tice, pedagogy, and history. Musical performance fication and formal software development from is the most complex field of music. It comprises Data management has evolved over the years from the perspective of work on algebraic specifica- the study of a composition’s expression in terms being strictly associated with database systems, tion, concentrating on developing basic concepts of analysis, emotion, and gesture, and then its through active databases, to become a topic that and studying their fundamental properties. These transformation into embodied reality, turning has grown beyond the scope of a single field foundations are built on a solid mathematical formulaic facts into dramatic movements of encompassing a large range of subjects, such as basis, using elements of universal algebra, category human cognition. Combining these components in distributed systems, event-driven systems, and theory and logic, and this mathematical toolbox a creative way is a sophisticated mix of knowledge peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The present provides a convenient language for precisely and mastery, which more resembles the cooking collection of works, which sheds light on various formulating the concepts involved in software of a delicate recipe than a rational procedure. This facets of data management, is dedicated to Prof. specification and development. Once formally book is the first one aiming at such comprehen- Alejandro Buchmann on the occasion of his 60th defined, these notions become subject to math- sive coverage of the topic, and it does so also as a birthday. His scientific path looks back on more ematical investigation, and this interplay between university text book. than thirty years of successful academic life and mathematics and software engineering yields high-impact research. With this book we celebrate results that are mathematically interesting, concep- Features Prof. Buchmann’s vision and achievements. tually revealing, and practically useful. The theory 7 First book that gives full account on the state of presented by the authors has its origins in work the art of empirical and philosophical performance Features on algebraic specifications that started in the early theory, including software and case studies 7 Is a 7 Unique visibility 7 Fast-track conference 1970s, and their treatment is comprehensive. textbook for music students and researchers as well proceedings 7 State-of-the-art research with rich illustrations and sound examples Features 7 Has been written by one of the leading experts From the contents 7 The theory presented by the authors has its in the field Key Concepts for Native XML Processing.- Effi- origins in work on algebraic specifications that cient Decision Tree Re-alignment for Clustering started in the early 1970s, and the author's treat- From the contents Time-Changing Data Streams.- REaltime ACtive ment is comprehensive 7 Covers the requisite Part I Introduction.- 1 Introduction and Over- Heterogeneous Systems.- Where Did We Reach mathematical foundations, traditional algebraic view.- 2 List of Symbols.- 3 Short History of After REACH?.- Aspects of Data-Intensive Cloud specifications, elements of the theory of institu- Performance Theory.- 4 Oniontology.- Part II Computing.- A Web That Senses and Responds.- tions, formal specification and development, and Structure Theory.- 5 What Is Structure Theory?- Spatial Perspectives in Event Processing.- Imple- proof theory 7 Will be of value to researchers 6 Tempo Curves.- 7 Tuning, Intonation, and menting a Practical Spatio-Temporal Composite and advanced graduate students in the areas of Dynamics.- 8 Combining Tempo, Tuning, and Event Language.- Design and Implementation programming and theoretical computer science Dynamics.- 9 Articulation.- 10 General Perfor- of the Rebeca Publish/Subscribe Middleware.- mance Fields.- 11 The Category of Performance Anonymous Mobile Service Collaboration: Quality Fields of interest Cells and Hierarchies .- Part III Expressive of Service.- SParK: Safety Partition Kernel for Logics and Meanings of Programs; Software Engi- Theory.- 12 What Is Expressive Theory?- Integrated Real-Time Systems.- On Scientific neering/Programming and Operating Systems; 13 Emotional Expression.- 14 Gestural Expres- Experiments and Flexible Service Compositions. Mathematical Logic and Foundations sion.- 15 Analytical Expression.- 16 Analytical Weights.- 17 Shaping Operators.- 18 Two Generic Fields of interest Target groups Models and the Challenge of Improvisation.- Computer Communication Networks; Informa- Research 19 String Quartet Theory. tion Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Software Engineering Discount group Fields of interest P Media Design; Algebraic Topology Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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J. J. Sarbo, J. I. Farkas, A. J. Breemen, Radboud G. d. Serugendo, Université de Genève, Carouge, C. R. Stephens, Universidad Nacional Autónoma University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Switzerland; M. Gleizes, Université Paul Sabatier, de México, México; R. Poli, Univerity of Essex, Toulouse, France; A. Karageorgos, Technological Colchester, UK Knowledge in Formation Education Institute of Larissa, Karditsa, Greece (Eds.) A Computational Theory of Interpretation Taming the Complexity of Self-organizing Software Evolutionary Dynamics From Natural to Artificial Adaptation Humans have an extraordinary capability to From Microscopic Models to Schema Theory combine different types of information in a single and Beyond meaningful interpretation. The quickness with Self-organization, self-regulation, self-repair which interpretation processes evolve suggests the and self-maintenance are promising conceptual The study of complex adaptive systems is among existence of a uniform procedure for all domains. approaches for dealing with complex distributed the key modern tasks in science. Such systems In this book the authors suggest that such a interactive software and information-handling show radically different behaviours at different procedure can be found. They concentrate on the systems. Self-organizing applications dynamically scales and in different environments, and math- introduction of a theory of interpretation, and they change their functionality and structure without ematical modelling of such emergent behaviour define a model that enables a meaningful repre- direct user intervention, responding to changes in is very difficult, even at the conceptual level. We sentation of knowledge, based on a dynamic view requirements and the environment. This is the first require a new methodology to study and under- of information and a cognitive model of human book to offer an integrated view of self-organiza- stand complex, emergent macroscopic phenomena. information processing. The book consists of three tion technologies applied to distributed systems, Coarse graining, a technique that originated in parts. The first part focuses on the properties of focusing in particular on multiagent systems.The statistical physics, involves taking a system with signs and sign interpretation; in the second part editors developed this integrated book with three many microscopic degrees of freedom and finding the authors introduce a model that complies with aims: to explain self-organization concepts and an appropriate subset of collective variables that the conditions for sign processing set by the first principles, using clear definitions and a strong offer a compact, computationally feasible descrip- part; and in the third part they examine applica- theoretical background; to examine how self- tion of the system, in terms of which the dynamics tions of their model in the domain of logic, natural organizing behavior can be modeled, analyzed and looks “natural”. The authors explain the basics of language, reasoning and mathematics. systematically engineered into agent behavior; and natural and artificial evolutionary dynamics, and to assess the types of problems that can be solved offer detailed treatments of the related models Features using self-organizing multiagent systems. of search spaces, population spaces, state spaces, 7 Book introduces many original ideas crossover, mutation and selection. 7 Significant contribution to the field 7 The first Features attempt to establish a rigorous Peircean approach 7 This is the first book to provide a compre- Features to knowledge representation hensive view of self-organized software 7 Will 7 Details the most significant, comprehensive be suitable for use as a graduate textbook, with theory of artificial evolutionary systems to emerge Contents chapter summaries and exercises 7 Is supported in the last 10 years 7 Will be key reading for Signs and Sign Interpretation.- From Signs to by an accompanying website that includes teaching theoreticians in computer science, artificial Interpretants.- A Semiotic Account of Interpreta- slides, exercise solutions and research project intelligence, engineering, biology and physics tion Processes.- A World of Signs.- Perception and outlines 7 Authors are among the top theoreticians in the Cognition.- Language Signs.- Reasoning Signs. field of evolutionary computation Contents Fields of interest Introduction.- History and Definitions.- Self-orga- Contents Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logic nization and Emergence in Natural Systems.- Soft- Introduction.- Natural Evolutionary Dynamics.- ware Agents.- Stigmergy.- Gossip.- Tags.- Coopera- Artificial Evolutionary Dynamics.- Models of Target groups tion.- Immune Systems.- Holarchy.- Middleware Search Spaces, Population Spaces and State Research Infrastructures.- Analysis and Simulation.- Adap- Spaces.- Models of Crossover.- Models of Muta- tive Trust Management.- Dynamic Robots Coor- tion.- Models of Selection.- Search Algorithms Discount group dination.- Security in Artificial Systems.- Image with Fixed-Length Representations.- Microscopic P Recognition.- P2P Protocols.- Conclusion.- Models.- Coarse Graining.- Genetic Dynamics.- App. A, Solutions to Selected Exercises. Building Blocks.- Recombination and Mutation.
Fields of interest Fields of interest Computing Methodologies; Computational Intel- Theory of Computation; Statistical Physics, ligence Dynamical Systems and Complexity; Complexity
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U. K. Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (Ed.) Counterterrorism and Open Source Intelligence
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, serious concerns were raised on domestic and international security issues. Consequently, there has been considerable interest recently in tech- nological strategies and resources to counter acts of terrorism. In this context, this book provides a state-of-the-art survey of the most recent advances in the field of counterterrorism and open source intelligence, demonstrating how various existing as well as novel tools and techniques can be applied in combating covert terrorist networks. A particular focus will be on future challenges of open source intelligence and perspectives on how to effectively operate in order to prevent terrorist activities.
Features 7 Presents state-of-the-art research and practice concerning intelligence work 7 Detailed descrip- tion of novel tools and techniques for counter- terrorism open source intelligence 7 Provides perspectives on the use of open source intelligence in the future
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J. C. Barrish, P. H. Carter, Bristol-Myers Squibb, F. Cataldo, Lupi Chemical Research Institute, Rome, S. Diez-Gonzalez, Institute of Chemical Research of Princeton, NJ, USA; P. T. Cheng, R. Zahler, Bristol- Italy; A. Graovac, University of Split, Croatia; O. Ori, Catalonia, Tarragona, Spain (Ed.) Myers Squibb, Pennington, NJ, USA (Eds.) Actinium Chemical Research, Rome, Italy (Eds.) N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Accounts in Drug Discovery The Mathematics and From Laboratory Curiosities to Efficient Case Studies in Medicinal Chemistry Topology of Fullerenes Synthetic Tools
Accounts in Drug Discovery describes recent “Mathematics and Topology of Fullerenes” presents This book shows how N-heterocyclic carbenes can case studies in medicinal chemistry with a a comprehensive overview of scientific and tech- be useful in various fields of chemistry and not particular emphasis on how the inevitable nical innovations in theoretical and experimental merely laboratory curiosities or simple phosphine problems that arise during any project can be studies.Topics included in this multi-author mimics. NHCs are best known for their contri- surmounted or overcome. The Editors cover a volume are: Clar structures for conjugated nano- bution to ruthenium and palladium catalysed wide range of therapeutic areas and medicinal structures; counting polynomials of fullerenes; reactions but the scope of this book is much chemistry strategies, including lead optimization topological indices of fullerenes; the wiener index broader. The synthesis of NHC ligands and their starting from high throughput screening “hits” of nanotubes; toroidal fullerenes and nanostars; corresponding metal complexes are covered in as well as rational, structure-based design. The C60 Structural relatives: a topological study; local depth. Such metal species are examined, not only chapters include “follow-ons” and “next genera- combinatorial characterization of fullerenes; in terms of their catalytic applications, but also tion” compounds that aim to improve upon first computation of selected topological indices of C60 their stereoelectronic parameters. Finally, special generation agents. This volume surveys the range and C80 Fullerenes via the Gap Program; 4valent- attention is given to the hot topic of organoca- of challenges commonly faced by medicinal analogues of fullerenes; a detailed atlas of Kekule talysis. In this last chapter, particular emphasis chemistry researchers, including the optimization structures of C60. The book is targeted at advanced is given to the novel reactivities being developed of metabolism and pharmacokinetics, toxicology, graduates and researchers working in carbon such as 1,2-additions, opening of small rings and pharmaceutics and pharmacology, including proof materials, chemistry and physics. O2 functionalization. The book will be of interest of concept in the clinic for novel biological targets. to postgraduates and those working in industry. Features Features 7 Contains a detailed atlas of Kekule structures of Features 7 Written by experts 7 Presents recent case Buckminsterfullerene 7 Presents experimental 7 Presents a hot topic of organocatalysis studies 7 Covers a wide range of therapeutic and theoretical contributions 7 Foreword by 7 New practical applications 7 Written by areas and medicinal chemistry strategies Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate experts 7 Broad in scope
From the contents Fields of interest From the contents Discovery of the Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 (DPP4) Organic Chemistry; Structural Materials; Introduction to n-heterocyclic carbenes: synthesis Inhibitor Onglyza™: From Concept to Market.- Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and stereoelectronic parameters.- Computa- Discovery of SCH 530348 – A Thrombin Receptor tional studies on the reactivity of transition (Protease Activated Receptor-1) Antagonist with Target groups metal complexes with n-heterocyclic carbene Potent Antiplatelet Effects.- Discovery of Pira- Research ligands.- Synthesis, activation and decomposition gliatin – A Glucokinase Activator.- The Discovery of n-heterocylic carbene-containing complexes.- of OSI-906, A Small Molecule Inhibitor of the Discount group Biologically active n-heterocyclic carbene-metal Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 and Insulin Receptors. P complexes.- Non-classical n-heterocyclic carbene complexes. Fields of interest Medicinal Chemistry; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Fields of interest Pharmacy Organic Chemistry; Catalysis; Inorganic Chemistry
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D. Drider, ENITIAA, Nantes, France; S. Rebuffat, C. Hartmann-Thompson, Michigan Molecular M. Heydt, University of Heidelberg, Germany National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France Institute, Midland, MI, USA (Ed.) (Eds.) How Do Spores Select Where Applications of Polyhedral to Settle? Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes Peptides A Holographic Motility Analysis of Ulva Zoospores on Different Surfaces From Genes to Applications The commercial availability and decreasing cost of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes in recent In this thesis, Matthias Heydt applies digital The book will provide an overview of the advance- years has opened up the field to everybody who in-line holography to achieve for the first time a ment of fundamental knowledge and applications wishes to apply these unique properties in their complete three dimensional and real time motion of antimicrobial peptides in biomedical, agricul- own technologies. This is the first book to provide analysis of Ulva zoospores, both in solution and tural, veterinary, food, and cosmetic products. a comprehensive overview of these applications, in the vicinity of different surfaces. These results Antimicrobial peptides stand as potentially great and covers the synthesis, characterization and provide previously unknown information about alternatives to current antibiotics, and most history of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquiox- the behavior and mechanism spores use to select a research in this newly-created area has been anes, their use as metallasilsesquioxane catalysts, suitable site for settlement. This work gives deeper published in journals and other periodicals. It their effect upon polymer properties and plastics insight into biofouling algae and stimulates new is the editors’ opinion that it is timely to sum up performance, and their use in superhydrophobic design strategies for antifouling coatings. Further- the most important achievements in the field and nanocomposites, and electronics, energy, space more, the tracking system developed during provide the scientific community in a reference and biomedical applications. this research could be used as a new system for book. The goals of this project include illustrating assessing the antifouling performance on different the achievements made so far, debating the state of Features surfaces at very early points in time, allowing the art, and drawing new perspectives. 7 Informs readers about the uses of POSS as a disentanglement of surface conditioning and inter- major building block in nanotechnology action of spores with pristine chemistries. Features 7 Dealing with one of the best-selling, least 7 Much needed reference of the most impor- expensive and most widely used nanomaterials Features tant achievements in the filed of antimicrobial on the market today 7 Covering cutting-edge 7 Nominated by the Department of Applied peptides 7 One of the only books written about industrial applications, also highly interesting for Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg for antimocribial peptides, which are potentially great the industrial audience a Springer Theses Prize 7 A new experimental alternatives to current antibiotics 7 Chapters approach of coherent microscopy was successfully have been contributed by numerous internation- From the contents developed and related challenges overcome ally known researchers in the field 1. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes: From 7 The results give deeper insight into the strate- Early and Strategic Development through to gies of biofouling algae and allow development of From the contents Materials Application (Elda Markovic, Kristina new design strategies for antifouling coatings Part I. Introduction: History, current Knowledge Constantopolous and Janis G Matisons).- 2. and future research on antimicrobial peptides.- Preparation and Characterisation of Polyhedral Contents Chapter 1. History, current knowledge and future Oligosilsesquioxanes (David B. Cordes and Paul Introduction.- Theory of Holography.- State of the directions on bacteriocin research in lactic D. Lickiss).- 3. Metallasilsesquioxanes: Molecular Art.- Experimental details.- Results: Motility and acid bacteria.- Chapter 2. Bacteriocin mediated Analogues of Heterogeneous Catalysts (Antony J. exploration behavior of Ulva zoospores.- Discus- competitive interactions of bacterial popula- Ward, Anthony F. Masters and Thomas Masch- sion of the motility of Ulva zoospores in vicinity tions and communities.- Part II. Classification of meyer).- 4. Polymers and Copolymers Containing to surfaces.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Acknowl- prokaryotic antimicrobial peptides.- Chapter 3. Covalently Bonded Polyhedral Oligomeric edgement.- Appendix. Classification of Bacteriocins from Gram positive Silsesquioxane Moieties (Katherine Grace bacteria.- Chapter 4. Bacteriocins from Gram Williams, Samuel Paul Gido and Edward Bryan Fields of interest negative bacteria: a classification?.- Part III. Isola- Coughlin).- 5. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquiox- Physical Chemistry; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plas- tion, purification and production of antimicrobial anes in Plastics (Chris DeArmitt). monics and Optical Devices; Microbial Ecology peptides. 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W. Lehmann, German Cancer Research Center, E. D. Morgan, Keele University, UK D. Moss, Karlsruhe Research Center, Eggenstein- Heidelberg, Germany Leopoldshafen, Germany (Ed.) Biosynthesis in Insects Protein Phosphorylation Advanced Edition Biomedical Applications of Analysis by Electrospray Mass Synchrotron Infrared Spectrometry The secondary metabolites of insects include the Microspectroscopy A Guide to Concepts and Practice important subjects of pheromones, hormones, A Practical Approach defensive secretions, cuticular hydrocarbons and metabolites derived from plants. All these subjects This book guides the reader through this prolific have been growing over the past four decades, and Publication of a definitive book on the biomedical field by presenting a collection of personal views are reaching a state of maturity now, where we can applications of synchrotron infrared microspec- and selected examples which cover all the impor- begin to see patterns in them and know in which troscopy was a central element in the workplan of tant principles with a focus on electrospray ioniza- part of the insect body they are produced. Other the EU project DASIM (Diagnostic Applications tion mass spectrometry. It covers: phosphorylation topics include pigments, luciferin and volicitin. of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy). The analysis at the peptide, protein and proteome Though aspects of these subjects have been treated project involved nearly 70 scientists and clini- level; manual and automated data evaluation; in monographs and reviews, there was not, until cians from 9 European countries, including all phosphopeptide enrichment; quantitative aspects; the first edition of “Biosynthesis in Insects” any synchrotron facilities that have or are planning an element mass spectrometry; individual analytical book that attempted to cover the whole subject. infrared beamline. Together with its international strategies, and hints to useful internet resources. The book was well received proving the need associates from the USA, Canada and Australia, This book provides students, graduate students, and interest in the subject, however, the activity the project brought together essentially all recog- post-Docs and senior scientists from related in research on insects has meant that the area is nized experts in the field. The project aims were areas with a better understanding on molecular expanding rapidly, and new aspects have opened to coordinate international research effort and protein phosphorylation analysis. It’s highest aim up. to disseminate the relevant information amongst is to strengthen the reader’s ability to develop a biological researchers and health care professionals personal, well-founded opinion on original manu- Features and this multi-author textbook was conceived as scripts published in this field. 7 Only book on the growing subject of biosyn- the most important measure towards the aim of thesis in insects 7 Fully illustrated with formulae, dissemination. Features reaction schemes, diagrams and illustrations to 7 Highly experienced and well-published expert make clear the subject of the text 7 Contains Features 7 Presents a comprehensive survey of the field many references to important work 7 Many practical examples presented 7 In depth 7 Highlights latest developments explored Raman microspectroscopy 7 Definitve Contents coverage by leading experts From the contents Introduction.- Enzymes, chirality and genes.- Introduction.- Biological Basis of Reversible Experimental methods.- Fatty acids and derived Fields of interest Protein Phosphorylation.- Collision Induced compounds.- Polyketides and acetogenins.- Spectroscopy/Spectrometry; Biological Tech- Dissociation.- MALDI-MS and MS/MS of Phos- Terpenes I.- Terpenes II.- Aromatic compounds.- niques; Laboratory Medicine phopeptides.- ESI-MS and MS/MS of Phosphopep- Alkaloids and substances of mixed biosynthetic tides.- Enrichment Technologies for Phosphopep- origin.- Plant substances stored or altered by Target groups tides/Phosphoproteins. insects. Research
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Olefin Upgrading Catalysis by P. Pechan, Ludwig Maximilians University, München, M. Peruzzini, L. Gonsalvi, Institute of Chemistry of Germany; O. Renn, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Organometallic Compounds of the Italian National Nitrogen-based Metal A. Watt, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Banchory, Research Council (ICCOM-CNR), Sesto Fiorentino, Complexes UK; I. Pongratz, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Italy (Eds.) Sweden This book highlights key advances that have Phosphorus Compounds occurred in the field of olefin conversion in recent Safe or Not Safe Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material years. The role of homogenous transition metal Deciding What Risks to Accept in Our catalysts which contain an imine functionality is Sciences emphasized; their potential applications in the Environment and Food processing and upgrade of olefins to a wide variety Each chapter of Phosphorus Compounds: of commodity products of very high industrial Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material Sciences value is also explored. On the threshold of the the book discusses risk and our food supply. The have been carefully selected by the editors in fiftieth anniversary of the Noble Prize to Ziegler introductory chapter will discuss all aspects of risk order to represent a state-of-the-art overview of and Natta, this book gives a critical summary of and how it applies to food, from risk classification how phosphorus chemistry can provide solutions the state of the art developments in the fascinating to risk management. Following a discussion of in various fields of applications. The editors have and rapidly developing field of the olefin polym- risk, the authors will present three different case assembled an international array of world- erization, oligomerization, and co-polymerization studies that will emphasize the following issues: renowned scientists and each chapter is written catalysis. What do we want as individuals, as a society. What by experts in the fields of synthetic chemistry, is the political context of the risk discussion. When homogeneous catalysis, dendrimers, theoretical Features do we act and what are the costs of not acting/ calculations, materials science, and medicinal 7 A thorough overview of the most recent devel- acting. International trade and legal issues. Moral chemistry with a special focus on the chemistry of opments in the field 7 Presenting homogeneous dimensions of decision making . How do we deal phosphorus compounds.Phosphorus Compounds: imine-based transition metal olefin polymerization with the disproportionate “power” of the various Advanced Tools in Catalysis and Material Sciences catalysts and their application in olefin efficiency stakeholders. Rationality/emotive aspects of is of interest to a general readership ranging from 7 Focussed on olefin polymerization, co-polym- argumentation (connection between perception / advanced university course students to experts in erization, and oligomerization processes live experiences, knowledge). What are facts- and academia and industry. do they change with time. Psychological aspects: From the contents rapture of trust; the need for certainty; connection Features 1. Cr Complexes of Nitrogen Donor Ligands between danger, fear and risk. 7 An exploration of the latest developments in for Olefin Oligomerisation and Polymerisation the research fields of phosphorus containing mole- (David S. McGuinness). - 2. Late-transition metal Features cules intended for academics as well as industrial complexes with mixed N^O, N^S, N^P chelating 7 Deals with risk concerns and risk management researchers 7 Contributions by world leaders in ligands for olefin polymerization catalysis (Andrea in relation to the food industry 7 Presents the the various fields of organophopshorus synthesis, Ravasio, Laura Boggioni and Incoronata Tritto).- global and local issues concerning risk and its catalysis and material science 7 Uniquely pres- 3. Rare-earth metal complexes supported by management in the food industry 7 Offers ways ents the important role of phosphorous in catalytic nitrogen-containing ligands in olefin polymeriza- to discuss information with graduates students and and material science applications tion (Alexander A. Trifonov).- 4. Imine-based professionals Vanadium Catalysts for a-olefin Polymerization From the contents (Carl Redshaw).- 5. Phenoxy-imine group 4 metal Contents Phosphine Acetylenic Macrocycles and Cages: complexes for olefin (co)polymerization, including 1. Risks.- 2. Biodiversity at Risk.- 3. Chemical Synthesis and Reactivity.- Theoretical evaluation of polar monomer copolymerization (Akihiko Contaminants in Food.- 4. The Food Choices We Phosphine Effects in Cross-Coupling Reactions.- Iwashita, Haruyuki Makio, and Terunori Fujita). Make. Metal Complexes with Anionic Polyphosphorus Rings and Chains as Potential Precursors for the Fields of interest Fields of interest Synthesis of Metal Phosphides. Catalysis; Polymer Sciences; Organometallic Food Science; Chemistry/Food Science, general Chemistry Fields of interest Target groups Catalysis; Materials Science, general; Inorganic Target groups Research Chemistry Research Discount group Target groups Discount group P Research P Discount group P
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Topics in Medicinal Chemistry J. L. Vicario, D. Badía, L. Carrillo, E. Reyes, University C. G. Vayenas, University of Patras, Greece (Ed.) of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Editorial board: P. R. Bernstein, A. Buschauer, Interfacial Phenomena in J. A. Lowe, U. Stilz, G. I. Georg, Y. Kiso Organocatalytic Electrocatalysis Volume 6 Enantioselective Conjugate Addition Reactions This volume analyzes and summarizes recent C. Dominguez, CHDI Management Inc./CHDI A Powerful Tool for the Stereocontrolled developments and breakthroughs in several key Foundation, Los Angeles, USA (Ed.) Synthesis of Complex Molecules interfacial electrochemical systems in fuel cell electrocatatalysis. The chapters are written by Neurodegenerative Diseases internationally recognized experts or rising stars This book, unique in its field, is a comprehensive in electrocatatalysis addressing both the funda- The Role of Histone Deacetylases in Neurodegen- description of all the methodologies reported mental and practical aspects of several emerging erative Diseases and Small-Molecule Inhibitors as for carrying out conjugate addition reactions in key electrochemical technologies. a Potential Therapeutic Approach.- Phosphodies- a stereoselective way, using small chiral organic terase Inhibition to Target the Synaptic Dysfunc- molecules as catalysts (organocatalysts). In the last Features tion in Alzheimer’s Disease.- Glutamate and 3-4 years, this has been a rapidly growing field in 7 First and only volume to cover interfacial Neurodegenerative Disease.- Modulation of the organic chemistry, and many papers have appeared electrochemistry as opposed to other facets of Kynurenine Pathway for the Potential Treatment reporting excellent protocols for carrying out these interfacial science 7 Contributors are interna- of Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Spinal Muscular highly efficient transformations that compete well tional leaders in their area of expertise Atrophy: Current Therapeutic Strategies. with other classical approaches using transition metal catalysts. A particularly attractive feature of Contents Features this transformation relies upon the fact that the Electrocatalysis on well characterized surfaces.- 7 In each volume an overview chapter introduces conjugate addition (Michael and Hetero-Michael Surface thermodynamics of metal/solution the newcomer to the topic covered 7 Series reactions) is an extraordinarily effective means interface: the untapped resources.- Structure covers hot topics of frontier research summarized to initiate cascade processes which result in the and Reactivity of Transition Metal Chalcogen- by reputed scientists in the field 7 Review series formation of complex molecules from very small ides Toward the Molecular Oxygen Reduction is topic related Online version available on and simple starting blocks. Reaction.- Palladium-Based Electrocatalysts For SpringerLink: springerlink.com Alcohol Oxidation in Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells.- Features Enhancement of the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Contents 7 Comprehensive description of methodologies Reduction and Electrocatalytic Oxidation of The Role of Histone Deacetylases in Neurodegen- 7 Highlights latest developments 7 Written by methanol at Pt/Ru Nanoparticles Immobilized in erative Diseases and Small-Molecule Inhibitors as experts Different Matrices.- XAS investigations of PEM a Potential Therapeutic Approach.- Phosphodies- fuel cells.- Surface Science and thermodynamics of terase Inhibition to Target the Synaptic Dysfunc- From the contents the Pt aqueous solution interface. tion in Alzheimer’s Disease.- Glutamate and Introduction.- Enantioselective conjugate reactions Neurodegenerative Disease.- Modulation of the via iminium activation.- Enantioselective conju- Fields of interest Kynurenine Pathway for the Potential Treatment gate reactions via enamine activation.- Enantiose- Electrochemistry; Catalysis; Power Engineering of Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Spinal Muscular lective conjugate reactions via hydrogen-bonding Atrophy: Current Therapeutic Strategies. activation.- Enantioselective conjugate reactions Target groups via chiral ammonium ion formation. Professional/practitioner Fields of interest Medicinal Chemistry; Neurology; Pharmacology/ Fields of interest Discount group Toxicology Catalysis; Organic Chemistry P
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A. Hoogendoorn, Ingenia Consultants & Engineers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; H. v. Kasteren, Ingenia Consultants & Engineers BV, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Transportation Biofuels Novel Pathways for the Production of Ethanol, Biogas and Biodiesel
This book offers an insight into three promising and innovative pathways for the biological produc- tion of biodiesel, ethanol and methane. These unconventional methods should provide higher product yields, less stringent feedstock specifica- tions, lower chemical additive demand, reduced waste production and much better energy balances when compared to more traditional methods. The first pathway is the enzymatic production of a new kind of biodiesel where no glycerol waste is produced and a twenty percent higher product yield is obtained. The other two pathways are based on the biological conversion of syngas into ethanol or methane using various kinds of ligno- cellulosic biomass as the starting point. For each of the three pathways a comparison will be made with competing production methods.
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Contents Introduction.- Biological conversion of syngas into ethanol.- Biological conversion of syngas into other fuels.- Enzymatic glycerol-free biodiesel production.- Concluding remarks.
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N. Battezzati, L. Sterpone, M. Violante, Politecnico N. Boudriga, Louisiana State University, Baton D. P. Broom, Hiden Isochema Ltd, Warrington, UK di Torino, Italy Rouge, LA, USA Hydrogen Storage Materials Reconfigurable Field Optical Network Engineering The Characterisation of Their Storage Programmable Gate Arrays for Modeling, Analysis, and Techniques Properties Mission-Critical Applications This book provides the foundation of optical The problem of storing hydrogen safely and effec- Embedded systems applications that are either network communication and optical traffic engi- tively is one of the major technological barriers mission or safety-critical usually entail low- to neering while highlighting the theories behind currently preventing the widespread adoption of mid- production volumes, require the rapid the development of new concepts and techniques hydrogen as an energy carrier and the subsequent development of specific tasks, which are typically capable of providing better resource reservation transition to a so-called hydrogen economy. Prac- computing intensive, and are cost bounded. The and allocation. It also addresses issues related to tical issues with the storage of hydrogen in both adoption of re-configurable FPGAs in such appli- Quality of Service provision, satisfaction manage- gas and liquid form appear to make reversible solid cation domains is constrained to the availability of ment, and optical network and data protection. state hydrogen storage the most promising poten- suitable techniques to guarantee the dependability It discusses methods for an efficient control and tial solution. Hydrogen Storage Materials addresses requirements entailed by critical applications. This planning. The book also develops optical TCP/IP the characterisation of the hydrogen storage book describes the challenges faced by designers networking-related theory for more effective IP properties of the materials that are currently being when implementing a mission- or safety-critical traffic control and management.Developed models considered for this purpose.The background to the application using re-configurable FPGAs and and techniques address, particularly, optical topic is introduced, along with the various types it details various techniques to overcome these buffering, grooming, switching, survivability, and of materials that are currently under investigation, challenges. In addition to an overview of the key security. including nanostructured interstitial and complex concepts of re-configurable FPGAs, it provides a hydrides, and porous materials, such as metal- theoretical description of the failure modes that Features organic frameworks and microporous organic can cause incorrect operation of re-configurable 7 Comprehensive introduction to issues related to polymers. FPGA-based electronic systems. It also outlines optical network engineering 7 Addresses issues analysis techniques that can be used to forecast of switching, routing and signaling in optical and Features such failures and covers the theory behind solu- all optical networks 7 Develops a theoretical 7 Offers an up-to-date overview of the topic for tions to mitigate fault effects. framework for optical traffic engineering, resource researchers 7 Includes enough introductory allocation, and QoS provision in optical networks material to be of use to newcomers to the field Features 7 Highlights the major aspects of optical network 7 Provides extensive coverage of measurement 7 Describes challenges faced when implementing engineering including protection, traffic control, error sources and other experimental consider- a mission- or safety-critical application using and planning ations re-configurable FPGAs and offers techniques to overcome these challenges 7 Provides an over- Contents Contents view of the key concepts of re-configurable FPGAs, Introduction to Optical Networking.- Fundamen- 1. Introduction.- 2. Potential Storage Materials.- as well as a theoretical description of their failure tals of Optical Communication.- Mathematics 3. Hydrogen Sorption Properties of Materials.- modes 7 Presents analysis techniques that can for Optical Networking.- Switching.- Wavelength 4. Gas Sorption Measurement Techniques.- be used to forecast failures and covers the theory Assignment.- Routing.- Optical Buffering.- 5. Complementary Characterisation Techniques.- behind solutions to mitigate fault effects Grooming in Optical Networks.- TCP/IP Over 6. Experimental Considerations.- Optical Networking.- Protecting Techniques.- 7. Concluding Remarks. From the contents Survivability of Optical Networks.- Security of Introduction.- Re-configurable Field Program- Optical Networks.- Call Admission Control in Fields of interest mable Gate Arrays: basic concepts.- Re-config- Optical Networks.- Quality of Service Provision.- Renewable Energy Sources; Power Engineering; urable Field Programmable Gate Arrays: failure Optical Network Planning. Energy Storage modes and analysis.- Re-configurable Field Programmable Gate Arrays: hardening solutions.- Fields of interest Target groups Commercial off the shelf FPGAs. Communications Engineering, Networks; Research Computer Communication Networks; Micro- Fields of interest waves, RF and Optical Engineering Discount group Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided P Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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P. A. Calero, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain (Ed.) L. Canetta, University of Applied Sciences (SUPSI), S. Carrara, Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Manno, Switzerland; C. Redaelli, ITIA-CNR, Milano, Switzerland (Ed.) Artificial Intelligence for Italy; M. Flores, CEMEX, Brügg, Switzerland (Eds.) Nano-Bio-Sensing Computer Games Digital Factory for The application of circuits and systems and engi- The book presents some of the most relevant Human-Oriented Production neering principles to problems in the medicine results from academia in the area of Artificial System has led to the emergence of biomedical circuits Intelligence for games. It emphasizes well theoreti- The Integration of International Research and systems as an exciting and rapidly growing cally supported work supported by developed Projects area of research. Nanotechnology provides new prototypes, which should lead into integration nano-structured materials with amazing proper- ofacademic AI techniques into current electronic ties. The properties offered by nanomaterials can entertainment games.The book elaborates on the Digital Factory is a comprehensive approach be applied to develop advanced instrumentation main results produced in Academia within the last providing methologies, models and tools to help for biomedical diagnostics and personalized 10 years regarding all aspects of Artificial Intel- manufacturing enterprises to proactively rear- therapy, as well as bio-sensing in the environment. ligence for games, including pathfinding, decision range their organizational structures in order to Biotechnology provides new biochemical materials making, and learning. A general theme of the deal with anticipated changes in manufacturing with novel properties to be applied to develop book is thecoverage of techniques for facilitating processes and markets. This book covers the utili- new performances in sensing techniques. These the construction of flexible not prescripted AI sation and integration of human body ergonomics advancements in Nano- and Bio- technologies will for agents in games. Regarding pathfinding, the models, production system discrete event simula- lead to new concepts and applications for nano- book includes new techniques for implementing tion, 3D/Virtual Reality visualization, automatic bio-sensing systems. real-time search methods that improve the results data capture and knowledge management systems obtained through AI, as well as techniques for based on semantic web ontologies integrated by Features learning pathfinding behavior by observing actual a continuous data management. The impact of 7 Provides multidisciplinary reference to players. the Digital Factory is investigated considering the state-of-the-art applications of nano-bio-sensing entire product/process lifecycle, from design to 7 Includes a wide range of application areas, Features recycling and disposal phases, as well as the broad including patient diagnosis and personalized 7 Translates the last decades of research into network of product engineering, material and therapy, as well as bio-sensing in the environment practical ideas to enhance the computer game component suppliers, manufacturing equipment 7 Includes a variety of real examples using nano- experience 7 Presents approaches for evolving suppliers and customers involved in current and materials for bio-sensing purposes interaction beyond the pre-scripted narratives next generation manufacturing. normally encountered 7 Integrates research into Contents reinforced learning, case-based reasoning and Features Nano-scale probes sensing for cells and genetic algorithms into game development 7 Provides integrated approach to manufacturing bacteria44.-; Nano-scale arrays for DNA label-free 7 Based on interdisciplinary research from force-detection.-Nano-Photonics and opto- Contents across the globe 7 Proposes methodologies and fluidics for bio-sensing.-Highly Sensitive Arrays Visual Data Mining of Player Traces in Interac- technologies that have been developed in order to of Nano-sized SPADs for DNA Detection.-Surface tive Environments.- Heuristic search methods for facilitate their adoption by SMEs/SMBs Plasmon Resonance on nano-scale films for DNA pathfinding.- Pattern-based AI Scripting.- Case- and Immuno-sensors.-Quantum Wells, Wires and Based Reasoning and User-Generated Game- Fields of interest Dots to improve Electrochemical bio-detection.- play.- Knowledge acquisition for adaptivegame Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Engineering Nanolithography for Electrochemical biosensors.- AI.- Game AI as Storytelling.- Affective Interactive Design; Engineering Economics, Organization, Nanoelectronic Circuits Design for Bio-Sensing Narrative.- Virtual Humans.- Interactive Drama.- Logistics, Marketing with Ultra-low Power Signal Processing. Dynamic Behaviour Trees. Target groups Fields of interest Fields of interest Research Circuits and Systems; Nanotechnology and Micro- Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence engineering; Biomaterials (incl. Robotics); Appl.Mathematics/Computational Discount group Methods of Engineering P Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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H. Casier, Kuurne, Belgium; M. Steyaert, K.U. Leuven, T. Echekki, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; B. T. Fijalkowski, Cracow University of Technology, Heverlee, Belgium; A. H. van Roermund, Technical E. Mastorakos, Cambridge University, UK (Eds.) Poland University Eindhoven, Netherlands (Eds.) Turbulent Combustion Automotive Mechatronics: Analog Circuit Design Modeling Operational and Practical Robust Design, Sigma Delta Converters, RFID Advances, New Trends and Perspectives Issues Volume I Analog Circuit Design contains the contribution Turbulent combustion sits at the interface of two of 18 tutorials of the 19th workshop on Advances important non-linear, multiscale phenomena: in Analog Circuit Design. Each part discusses a chemistry and turbulence. Its study is also This book presents operational and practical specific to-date topic on new and valuable design extremely timely in view of the need to develop issues of automotive mechatronics with special ideas in the area of analog circuit design. Each part new combustion technologies in order to fight emphasis on the heterogeneous automotive is presented by six experts in that field and state climate change, energy source uncertainty, and vehicle systems approach, and is intended as a of the art information is shared and overviewed. air pollution. Modelling of turbulent combus- graduate text as well as a reference for scientists This book is number 20 in this successful series tion has received attention for a number of years, and engineers involved in the design of automotive of Analog Circuit Design, providing valuable but key issues are still eluding, and a theoretical mechatronic control systems.As the complexity of information and excellent overviews of:Topic description that is accurate enough to make our automotive vehicles increases, so does the dearth 1: Robust Design: Herman casierTopic 2: Sigma models rigorous and quantitative for industrial use of high competence, multi-disciplined automo- Delta Converters: Michiel SteyaertTopic 3: RFID: is still lacking.In this book, a group of prominent tive scientists and engineers. This book provides Arthur van RoermundAnalog Circuit Design is experts review most of the available approaches in a discussion into the type of mechatronic control an essential reference source for analog circuit modelling turbulent combustion, with particular systems found in modern vehicles and the skills designers and researchers wishing to keep abreast focus on the exploding increase in computational required by automotive scientists and engineers with the latest development in the field. The tuto- resources that has allowed the simulation of working in this environment. Divided into two rial coverage also makes it suitable for use in an increasingly detailed phenomena. volumes and five parts, Automotive Mechatronics advanced design course. aims at improving automotive mechatronics Features education and emphasises the training of students’ Features 7 Unique in its scope 7 Emphasizes the direc- experimental hands-on abilities, stimulating and 7 Contributions from recognized international tions proposed for further research rather than the promoting experience among high education insti- experts 7 Focus on the latest "hot" topics from specific formulations of given models 7 Contri- tutes and produce more automotive mechatronics within the field of Analog Circuit Design butions by world experts and automation engineers. 7 Springer has been publishing these proceedings since the workshop start in 1992 Fields of interest Features Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Fluid- and Aerody- 7 Comprehensive reference for automotive Contents namics; Numerical and Computational Physics vehicle chassis-motion mechatronic control hyper- Robust Design.- Sigma Delta Convreters.- RF ID. systems 7 Authoritative text 7 One of the best Target groups current publications aiming at improving the auto- Fields of interest Research motive mechatronics education and emphasize on Circuits and Systems; Input/Output and Data the training of students' experimental hands-on Communications Discount group ability P Target groups Fields of interest Research Automotive Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Machinery and Machine Elements Discount group P Target groups Professional/practitioner
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G. Grossmann, Swiss Federal Laboratories for F. Hadzic, Digital Ecosystems and Business T. T. Ivancevic, Citech Research IP Pty Ltd., Adelaide, Materials Testing and Research EMPA, Dübendorf, Intelligence, Bentley, Australia; H. Tan, Bothell, WA , SA, Australia; B. Jovanovic, Sports Academy, Novi Switzerland; C. Zardini, ENSEIRB, Talence, France (Eds.) USA; T. S. Dillon, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Sad, Serbia; S. Jovanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; M. Djukic, Alfa University, Novi Beograd, The ELFNET Book on Failure Mining of Data with Complex Serbia; N. Djukic, QLIWW IP Pty Ltd., Burnside, SA, Australia; A. Lukman, Sports Academy, Belgrade, Mechanisms, Testing Structures Serbia Methods, and Quality Issues of Lead-Free Solder Mining of Data with Complex Structures: Clarifies Paradigm Shift for Future the type and nature of data with complex structure Interconnects including sequences, trees and graphs. Provides Tennis: a detailed background of the state-of-the-art of The Art of Tennis Physiology, Biomechanics The ELFNET Book on Failure Mechanisms, sequence mining, tree mining and graph mining. and Psychology Testing Methods, and Quality Issues of Lead-Free Defines the essential aspects of the tree mining Solder Interconnects is the work of the European problem: subtree types, support definitions, The book “Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis” starts network ELFNET which was founded by the constraints. Outlines the implementation issues with revelations that make obvious the limitations European Commission in the 6th Framework one needs to consider when developing tree of today’s tennis, which does not use the laws of Programme. It brings together contributions mining algorithms (enumeration strategies, data modern Biomechanics and Neurophysiology. The from the leading European experts in lead-free structures, etc.). Details the Tree Model Guided second part of the book includes a new approach soldering.The limited validity of testing methods (TMG) approach for tree mining and provides the to the quantum mind of a champion. It will reveal originating from tin-lead solder was a major point mathematical model for the worst case estimate the secret weapon of Roger Federer and the of concern in ELFNET members’ discussions. As of complexity of mining ordered induced and blueprint of a future tennis champion. This book a result, the network’s reliability group decided to embedded subtrees. Explains the mechanism of the will expose the new tennis shot emerging from the bring together the material properties of lead-free TMG framework for mining ordered/unordered field of sports science. It is a real weapon, which solders, as well as the basics of material science, induced/embedded and distance-constrained can generate a ball-speed similar to that of the and to discuss their influence on the procedures embedded subtrees. Provides a detailed compar- first serve: the Power High-Forehand. Its aim is to for accelerated testing. This has led to a matrix of ison of the different tree mining approaches generate maximal possible racket-head speed while failure mechanisms and their activation and, as a highlighting the characteristics and benefits of players do not wait for the ball to bounce. result, to a comprehensive coverage of the scien- each approach. tific background and its applications in reliability Features testing of lead-free solder joints Features 7 Fundamental scientific approach to tennis 7 The state of the art of Mining of Data with 7 State of the art of Tennis Physiology, Biome- Features Complex Structures 7 Clarifies the type and chanics and Psychology 7 Written by leading 7 Gives the results of research conducted within nature of data with complex structure including experts in the field the European Lead-Free Soldering Network sequences, trees and graphs 7 Written by leading (ELFNET) 7 Offers a compilation of material experts in this field Contents from European experts on the metallurgy and Part I The Laws of Core Future Tennis Science.- degradation of lead-free solder joints 7 Contains From the contents Part II Modern Background for Tennis Science. numerous illustrations Introduction.- Tree Mining Problem.- Algorithm Development Issues.- Tree Model Guided Frame- Fields of interest Fields of interest work.- TMG Framework for Mining Ordered Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Subtrees.- TMG Framework for Mining Unor- (incl. Robotics); Sports Medicine Optical and Electronic Materials; Quality Control, dered Subtrees.- Mining Distance-Constrained Reliability, Safety and Risk Embedded Subtrees.- Mining Maximal And Target groups Closed Frequent Subtrees.- Tree Mining Applica- Research Target groups tions.- Extension of TMG Framework for Mining Research Frequent Subsequences. Discount group P Discount group Fields of interest P Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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R. Jakushokas, University of Rochester, Rochester, P. Kapur, University of Delhi, India; H. Pham, Rutgers W. A. Khan, Institute of Business Administration, NY, USA; M. Popovich, Qualcomm Incorporated, University, Piscataway, NJ, USA; A. Gupta, P. Jha, Karachi, Pakistan; A. Raouf, University of San Diego, CA, USA; A. V. Mezhiba, Intel Corporation, University of Delhi, India Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan; Hillsboro, OR, USA; S. Kose, E. G. Friedman, K. Cheng, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA Software Reliability Virtual Manufacturing Power Distribution Networks Assessment with OR Applications Virtual Manufacturing presents a novel concept of with On-Chip Decoupling combining human computer interfaces with virtual Capacitors Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applica- reality for discrete and continuous manufacturing tions is a comprehensive guide to software reli- systems. The authors address the relevant concepts This book describes methods for distributing ability measurement, prediction, and control. It of manufacturing engineering, virtual reality, power in high speed, high complexity integrated provides a thorough understanding of the field and and computer science and engineering, before circuits with power levels exceeding many tens gives solutions to the decision-making problems embarking on a description of the methodology of watts and power supplies below a volt. It that concern software developers, engineers, for building augmented reality for manufacturing provides a broad and cohesive treatment of power practitioners, scientists, and researchers. Using processes and manufacturing systems. Virtual distribution systems and related design problems, operations research techniques, readers will learn Manufacturing is centered on the description of including both circuit network models and design how to solve problems under constraints such as the development of augmented reality models techniques for on-chip decoupling capacitors, cost, budget and schedules to achieve the highest for a range of processes based on CNC, PLC, providing insight and intuition into the behavior possible quality level. Software Reliability Assess- SCADA, mechatronics and on embedded systems. and design of on-chip power distribution systems. ment with OR Applications is a comprehensive Further discussions address the use of augmented Organized into subareas to provide a more text on software engineering and applied statistics, reality for developing augmented reality models intuitive flow to the reader, this second edition state-of-the art software reliability modeling, tech- to control contemporary manufacturing systems adds more than a hundred pages of new content, niques and methods for reliability assessment, and and to acquire micro- and macro-level decision including inductance models for interdigitated related optimization problems. parameters for managers to boost profitability of structures, design strategies for multi-layer power their manufacturing systems. grids, advanced methods for efficient power grid Features design and analysis, and methodologies for simul- 7 Addresses most of the existing research into Features taneously placing on-chip multiple power supplies techniques to measure system reliability 7 Provides a methodology for developing virtual and decoupling capacitors. 7 Provides a complete guide to measuring and reality for manufacturing 7 Enables readers to assessing software reliability 7 Includes new build their own virtual manufacturing system Features concept maps to facilitate the reader's under- software 7 Comes with online files and virtual 7 Describes power distribution systems and standing factory software with which readers can experi- related design problems, including both circuit ment models and design techniques to allocate on-chip Contents decoupling capacitors 7 Details effects of induc- 1. Introduction.- 2. Software Reliability Growth From the contents tance on impedance characteristics of on-chip Models.- 3. Imperfect Debugging / Testing Effi- 1. Augmented Reality for Manufacturing.- power distribution grids ciency Software Reliability Growth Models.- 2. Manufacturing Processes and Systems.- 4. Testing-Coverage and Testing-Domain 3. Automation and Control in Manufacturing.- Fields of interest Models.- 5. Change Point Models.- 6.- Unification 4. Augmented Reality for Sensors, Transducers and Circuits and Systems; Electronics and Microelec- of SRGM.- 7. Artificial Neural Networks Based Actuators.- 5. Augmented Reality for Computer tronics, Instrumentation; Processor Architectures SRGM.- 8. SRGM Using SDE.- 9. Discrete SRGM.- Numerical Control (CNC) Based Applications.- 10. Software Release Time Decision Problems 6. Augmented Reality for Industrial Manipulators, Target groups Introduction.- 11. Allocation Problems at Unit Gantries and Conveyors.- 7. Virtual Reality Design Professional/practitioner Level Testing.- 12. Fault Tolerant Systems. for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Based Applications. Discount group Fields of interest P Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Fields of interest Performance and Reliability; Software Engineering Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Industrial and Target groups Production Engineering Professional/practitioner Target groups Discount group Professional/practitioner P Discount group P
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H. Koeppl, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; G. Setti, L. Leyssenne, E. Kerhervé, Y. Deval, IMS Laboratory, P. J. Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; University of Bologna, Italy; M. Bernardo, University of Talence, France S. Karnouskos, SAP AG, Karlsruhe; D. Minder, Naples, Italy; D. Densmore, UC Berkeley, CA, USA (Eds.) University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer IAIS, Reconfigurable RF Power Duisburg, Germany; A. Ollero, University of Sevilla, Design and Analysis of Amplifiers on Silicon for Spain (Eds.) Bio-molecular Circuits Wireless Handsets The Emerging Domain of
The book deals with engineering aspects of the Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon Cooperating Objects two emerging and intertwined fields of synthetic for Wireless Handsets is intended to designers and systems biology. Both fields hold promise to and researchers who have to tackle the efficiency/ There are a number of different system concepts revolutionize the way molecular biology research linearity trade-off in modern RF transmitters so that have gained much relevance in the area of is done, the way today’s drug discovery works as to extend their battery lifetime. High data rate embedded systems over the past couple of years. and the way bio-engineering is done. Both fields 3G/4G standards feature broad channel band- First, there is the classic concept of embedded stress the importance of building and character- widths, high dynamic range and critical envelope systems where the focus is on control systems izing small bio-molecular networks in order to variations which generally forces the power ampli- for physical processes. Secondly, the notion of synthesize incrementally and understand large fier (PA) to operate in a low efficiency “backed-off” pervasive computing has evolved, where the vision complex networks inside living cells. Reminiscent regime. Classic efficiency enhancement techniques foresees everyday objects having some form of of computer-aided design (CAD) of electronic such as Envelope Elimination and Restoration computation capacity and, in most cases, sensing circuits, abstraction is believed to be the key reveal to be little compliant with handset-dedi- and communication facilities. Thirdly, the notion concept to achieve this goal. It allows hiding the cated PA implementation due to their channel- of wireless sensor networks has arisen, where overwhelming complexity of cellular processes by bandwidth-limited behavior and their increased small computing devices are able to sense their encapsulating network parts into abstract modules. die area consumption and/or bill-of-material. The environment and cooperate in order to achieve a This book provides a unique perspective on how architectural advances that are proposed in this well-defined goal. concepts and methods from CAD of electronic book circumvent these issues since they put the circuits can be leveraged to overcome complexity stress on low die-area /low power-consumption Features barrier perceived in synthetic and systems biology. control circuitry. 7 Presents the quite new vision of Cooperating Objects 7 Enables us to better understand the Features Features impact on the research landscapes 7 Helps to 7 Provides thorough overview of state-of-the-art 7 Provides breakthrough solutions for the design steer the available resources in a meaningful way in synthetic and systems biology 7 Applies to of efficient and low-area integrated RF power biological systems the formal abstraction methods amplifiers 7 Describes the theory of a finely Contents used to cope with complexity of today’s electronic tuned envelope injection technique and its applica- Executive Summary.- Purpose of this Document.- devices 7 First book to discuss the enabling CAD tion to an adaptive power amplifier demonstrator Introduction to Cooperating Objects.- State of technologies in terms of data acquisition and DNA on silicon (SiGe BiCMOS) 7 Describes Delta- the Art in Cooperating Object Research.- Visions synthesis Sigma control systems to cancel out quantization for Innovative Applications.- Market Analysis.- noise/distortion in power amplifiers based on Research Roadmap.- Predominant Work Areas.- Contents dynamically switched power stages Summary and Conclusions. Simulation and Analysis of Bio-Molecular Circuits.- Introduction to Chemical Kinetics.- From the contents Fields of interest Computer Science Models to Describe Bio-Molec- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations.- Communications Engineering, Networks; ular Circuits.- Limitation of Current Modeling Chapter 1 Mobile Phone Transmitters for Wireless Computer Communication Networks; Control, Approaches.-Abstraction in System Design; Standards: systems, architectures and tech- Robotics, Mechatronics Abstraction Hierarchies and their use in CAD of nologies.- Chapter 2 Discretized Reconfiguration Electronic Circuits.- Current efforts in standard- Techniques for Radiofrequency Power Amplifiers. Target groups ization of Biological Parts.- Case Studies.-Biolog- Research ical Modules.- Enabling Technologies for Synthetic Fields of interest and Systems Biology. Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Elec- Discount group tronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; P Fields of interest Circuits and Systems Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engi- neering (CAD, CAE) and Design Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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M. V. Nesterenko, V. A. Katrich, V.N. Karazin Kharkov S. Sunderasan, Verdurous Solutions Private Limited, L. Tadj, American University in Dubai, United Arab National University, Kharkov, Ukraine; Y. M. Penkin, Mysore, India Emirates; M. Ouali, S. Yacout, Ecole Polytechnique de National Pharmaceutical University, Kharkov, Montreal, QC, Canada; D. Ait-Kadi, Laval University, Ukraine; V. M. Dakhov, S. L. Berdnik, V.N. Karazin Rational Exuberance for QC, Canada (Eds.) Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Ukraine Renewable Energy Replacement Models with Thin Impedance Vibrators An Economic Analysis Minimal Repair Theory and Applications Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy is a beyond-the-hype account of the underlying issues Replacement Models with Minimal Repair is a The book is devoted to exploring the foundations that encourage or plague widespread dissemi- collection of works by several well-known special- of the theory of thin impedance vibrator antennas. nation of renewable energy (RE) technologies. ists on the subject of minimal repair in replace- The text provides a continuation of the classic Renewable energy operates in the real world, and it ment policies. It gives an exhaustive list of minimal theory of thin perfectly conducting vibrators. cannot be assumed that the conventional theories repair models for the effective planning of minimal Many consider impedance conception one of and incentive structures of economics and business repair and maintenance actions.Written in an the most universal models in the theory of wave do not apply. The author argues that grants and engaging style, Replacement Models with Minimal processes, as it informs such a wide spectrum of subsidies could be provided to support research, Repair balances complex mathematical models uses in solving practical problems of electrody- development and technology improvement efforts, with practical applications. namics. This topic provides an opportunity to but should not be employed as an instrument of further search analytical solutions, allowing a state policy to intervene in specific markets. It is Features simplification of the mathematical formulation of important to recognize that although investors 7 Gives readers information on all models in the boundary problem. The theory strives to widen often demonstrate an appetite for market risk, they which minimal repair has been incorporated the boundaries of the impedance vibrator antennas find technology risks and policy uncertainty much 7 Forms a compilation of works specialists in the application in complex modern radio-and-elec- less appealing. field of minimal repair 7 Written in a fluid and tronic systems and devices. The results of much engaging style original research conducted by the authors will be Features useful for practicing engineers and designers of 7 Analyzes incentive structures for project Contents antenna and waveguide systems. implementation involving renewable sources 1. A Survey of Replacement Models with Minimal 7 Includes full details of sources of further Repair.- 2. Information-based Minimal Repair Features information 7 Addresses the issues preventing Models.- 3. Minimal Repair Models with Two 7 Explores the theory of impedance vibrators widespread dissemination of RE technologies Categories of Competing Failure Modes.- with comprehensive and unprecedented detail, 4. Preventive Maintenance Models: A Review.- from basic principles to applications 7 Provides Contents 5. Optimal Schedules of Two Periodic Imper- actual applied problems in the book’s conclusion, 1. Infant Industry and Incentive Structures.- fect Preventive Maintenance Policies and Their which can serve as the basis of series of PhD proj- 2. Renewable Energy Technology: Market Devel- Comparison.- 6. Warranty Servicing with Imper- ects 7 Includes several appendices on generalized opment, Subsidy Policy and the Enlargement of fect Repair for Products Sold with a Two-Dimen- integral functions and electromagnetic values to Choice.- 3. Economic Rents and the Power of sional Warranty.- 7. A Survey of Burn-in and aid in the reader’s comprehension Scarcity.- 4. Revealed Preferences and the Power of Maintenance Models for Repairable Systems.- Substitutes.- 5. Mapping Development Policy on 8. Filtering and M-ary Detection in a Minimal Fields of interest to the Life Cycle.- 6. Accounting for the Environ- Repair Maintenance Model.- 9. Efficient Product Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Optics mental Externality.- 7. Microfinance: Taking RE to Support - Optimum and Realistic Spare Parts and Electrodynamics the ‘Former Poor’.- 8. Epilogue: Rational Exuber- Forecasting. ance for Renewable Energy. Target groups Fields of interest Research Fields of interest Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Math- Renewable Energy Sources; Environmental ematical Modeling and Mathematics in Industry; Discount group Economics; Energy Economics Industrial Organization P Target groups Target groups Research Research
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2011. X, 245 p. 118 illus., 1 in color. (Lecture Notes in 2011. X, 174 p. 8 illus. (Green Energy and Technology) 2011. XVIII, 270 p. 23 illus., 12 in color. (Springer Series in Electrical Engineering, Volume 2064) Hardcover Hardcover Reliability Engineering) Hardcover 7 $129.00 7 $129.00 7 $129.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-7849-3 ISBN 978-0-85729-211-7 ISBN 978-0-85729-214-8 40 Engineering Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
A. Vakali, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece D. Vernon, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, I. Wagner, V. Bertacco, University of Michigan, Ann (Ed.) Italy; C. von Hofsten, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Arbor, MI, USA Sweden; L. Fadiga, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy New Directions in Web Data Post-Silicon and Runtime Management 1 A Roadmap for Cognitive Verification for Modern Development in Humanoid Processors This book addresses the major issues in the Web Robots data management related to technologies and The purpose of this book is to survey the state of infrastructures, methodologies and techniques This book addresses the central role played by the art and evolving directions in post-silicon and as well as applications and implementations. development in cognition. The focus is on applying runtime verification. The authors start by giving Emphasis is placed on Web engineering and our knowledge of development in natural cognitive an overview of the state of the art in verification, technologies, Web graph managing, searching and systems, specifically human infants, to the problem particularly current post-silicon methodolo- querying and the importance of social Web. of creating artificial cognitive systems in the guise gies in use in the industry, both for the domain of humanoid robots. The approach is founded on of processor pipeline design and for memory Features the three-fold premise that (a) cognition is the subsystems. They then dive into the presentation 7 Latest research in the management of web wata process by which an autonomous self-governing of several new post-silicon verification solutions in intelligent environment 7 State-of-the-Art agent acts effectively in the world in which it is aimed at boosting the verification coverage of book 7 Written by leading experts in this field embedded, (b) the dual purpose of cognition is to modern processors, dedicating several chapters to increase the agent’s repertoire of effective actions this topic. The presentation of runtime verifica- Contents and its power to anticipate the need for future tion solutions follows a similar approach. This is Innovations and Trends in Web Data Manage- actions and their outcomes, and (c) development an area of processor design that is still in its early ment.- Massive Graph Management for the Web plays an essential role in the realization of these stages of exploration and that holds the promise and Web 2.0.-Web Engineering and Metrics.- cognitive capabilities. Our goal in this book is to of accomplishing the ultimate goal of achieving Modern Web Technologies.- Federated Data identify the key design principles for cognitive complete correctness guarantees for micropro- Management and Query Optimization for Linked development. cessor-based computation. Open Data.- Queries overWeb Services.- Towards Adaptively Approximated Search in Distributed Features Features Architectures.- Online Social Networks: Status 7 Applies natural cognitive systems to the 7 Addresses an area of hardware verification that and Trends .- Enhancing Computer Vision using problem of creating artificial cognitive systems is growing both in industry and academia the Collective Intelligence of Social Media.-From 7 Identifies the essential principles of a system 7 Covers hardware patching and error avoid- Extensional Data to Intensional Data: AXML for that can develop cognitive capabilities and it shows ance 7 Discusses multi-core processors with test XML.- Migrating Legacy Assets through SOA to how these principles have been applied to the generation and response evaluation Realize Network Enabled Capability. state-of-the-art humanoid robot: the iCub 7 Written by leading experts in the field Contents Fields of interest Verification of a Modern Processor.- The Verifica- Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence Contents tion Universe.- Test Generation and Response (incl. Robotics) A Conceptual Framework for Developmental Evaluation for Processors Cores in Post-Silicon.- Cognitive Systems.- Pre-natal Development and Post-Silicon Verification of Multi-Core Proces- Target groups Core Abilities.- The Development of Cognitive sors.- Run-Time Verification Through Hardware Research Capabilities in Infants.- What Neurophysiology Patching and Error Avoidance.- The Future of Teaches Us About Perception and Action.- Post-Silicon Verification. Discount group Computational Models of Cognition.- A Research P Roadmap..- The iCub Cognitive Architecture.- Fields of interest Conclusion. Circuits and Systems; Computer Hardware; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Fields of interest Design Robotics and Automation; Computational Intel- ligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
Due February 2011 Due December 2010 Due December 2010 2010. 370 p. (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2011. 250 p. (Cognitive Systems Monographs, Volume 331) Hardcover Volume 11) Hardcover 2011. XX, 230 p. 50 illus. Hardcover 7 $179.00 7 $109.00 7 approx. $129.00 ISBN 978-3-642-17550-3 ISBN 978-3-642-16903-8 ISBN 978-1-4419-8033-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Engineering 41
A. Wagoner Johnson, B. Harley, University of Illinois, J. Xiong, Beihang University, China; R. Shenoi, Á. Zarándy, MTA-SZTAKI Budapest, Hungary (Ed.) Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (Eds.) University of Southampton, UK Focal-Plane Sensor-Processor Mechanobiology of Cell-Cell Fatigue and Fracture Chips and Cell-Matrix Interactions Reliability Engineering Focal-plane sensor-processor imager devices are Mechanobiology of Cell-Matrix Interactions Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Engineering is sensor arrays and processor arrays embedded in focuses on characterization and modeling an attempt to present an integrated and unified each other on the same silicon chip. This close of interactions between cells and their local approach to reliability determination of fatigue coupling enables ultra-fast processing even on tiny, extracellular environment, exploring how these and fracture behaviour, incorporating prob- low power devices, because the slow and energeti- interactions may mediate cell behavior. Studies ability, statistics and other related areas.A series of cally expensive transfer of the large amount of of cell-matrix interactions rely on integrating original and practical approaches, are suggested sensory data is eliminated. This technology also engineering, (molecular and cellular) biology, and in Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Engineering, makes it possible to produce locally adaptive imaging disciplines. Recent advances in the field including new techniques in determining fatigue sensor arrays, which can (similarly to the human have begun to unravel our understanding of how and fracture performances. It also carries out an retina) adapt to the large dynamics of the illumina- cells gather information from their surrounding investigation into static and fatigue properties, tion in a single scene. This book focuses on the environment, and how they interrogate such and into the failure mechanisms of unnotched and implementation and application of state-of-the-art information during the cell fate decision making notched CFR composite laminates with different vision chips. It provides an overview of focal plane process. Topics include adhesive and integrin- lay-ups to optimize the stacking sequence effect. chip technology, smart imagers and cellular wave ligand interactions; extracellular influences on cell computers, along with numerous examples of biology and behavior; cooperative mechanisms of Features current vision chips, 3D sensor-processor arrays cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions; the mecha- 7 Presents new techniques for the determination and their applications. Coverage includes not only nobiology of pathological processes; (multi-scale) of fatigue and fracture performances 7 Gives the technology behind the devices, but also their modeling approaches to describe the complexity or an integrated and unified approach to reliability near- and mid-term research trends. cell-matrix interactions; and quantitative methods determination of fatigue and fracture behaviour required for such experimental and modeling through probability and statistics 7 Presents a Features studies. novel convergence-divergence counting procedure 7 Describes a variety of state-of-the-art vision to extract all load cycles from a load history of chips 7 Introduces opportunities offered by the Features divergence-convergence waves technology through application examples 7 Provides an examination of the mechanobi- 7 Includes coverage of daptive sensing and smart ology of cell-matrix interactions 7 Discusses the Contents sensors emerging area of cooperative behavior of cells, as 1. Deterministic Theorem on Fatigue and well as current methods for probing cell mechanics Fracture.- 2. Reliability and Confidence Levels From the contents 7 Explores the mechano-pathology of cancer and of Fatigue Life.- 3. Principles Underpinning Reli- Overview of focal plane chip technology.- smart disease ability based Prediction of Fatigue and Fracture imagers; cellular wave computers.- State-of-the-art Behaviours.- 4. Data Treatment and Generation of focal-plane sensor-processor chips.- Ultra-high Fields of interest Fatigue Load Spectrum.- 5. Reliability Design and binary morphology processor applying asynchro- Biomedical Engineering; Biophysics and Biological Assessment for Total Structural Life.- 6. Reliability nous digital waves.- Introduction of the MIPA Physics; Cell Biology Prediction for Fatigue Damage and Residual Life 4 chip.- Robust Focal-Plane Analog Processing in Composites.- 7. Chaotic Fatigue. Hardware for Dynamic Texture Segmentation.- Target groups A Focal Plane Processor for Continuous-Time 1-D Research Fields of interest Optical Correlation Applications.- A pixel-parallel Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Statis- cellular processor array in a stacked three-layer Discount group tics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, 3D silicon-on-insulator technology.- VISCUBE: P Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Metallic Materials a multi-layer vision chip.- THz detector sensor- processor array. Target groups Research Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engi- Discount group neering (CAD, CAE) and Design P Target groups Research
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Due December 2010 Due February 2011 Due January 2011 2011. XIV, 314 p. 117 illus., 4 in color. (Springer Series in 2011. X, 340 p. 100 illus. Hardcover Reliability Engineering) Hardcover 2011. X, 240 p. 100 illus. Hardcover 7 $179.00 7 $179.00 7 approx. $129.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-8082-3 ISBN 978-0-85729-217-9 ISBN 978-1-4419-6474-8 42 Engineering Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
J. Zhang, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK; L. Shao, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; L. Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, Beiijing, PR China; G. A. Jones, Kingston University, Surrey, UK (Eds.) Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding
With the vast development of Internet and media technologies, intelligent video event analysis is a gradually growing field of research in recent decades. Significant challenges include how to handle background clutter, occlusions, as well as interactions. Another difficulty is the lacking of widely accepted definition of event in the litera- ture. Though the research achievement is still far from its promise, steady progress has been made in past years. This book collects a set of selected contributions in this area from international experts including leading academic researchers, and industrial practitioners. It presents the latest advances of intelligent video event analysis in both theoretical and application viewpoints.
Features 7 Recent research in intelligent video event analysis 7 Edited Outcome of the 1st Interna- tional Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval" (VECTaR2009) held in Xi'an, China, September 2009 7 Written by leading experts in this field
From the contents The Understanding of Meaningful Events in Gesture-based Interaction.- Apply GPCA to Motion Segmentation.- Gait analysis and human motion tracking.-Spatio-temporal Dynamic Texture Descriptors for Human Motion Recogni- tion.- Efficient Object Localization with Variation- normalized Gaussianized Vector Representation.- Fusion of Motion and Appearance for Robust People Detection in Cluttered Scenes.- Under- standing Sports Video Using Players Trajectories.- Real-Time Face Recognition from Surveillance Video.
Fields of interest Computational Intelligence; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Image Processing and Computer Vision
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T. S. Bíró, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, D. Bruckner, Technische Universität Wien, Austria; M. Carroll, Littleton, CO, USA Hungary P. Gruber, Wien, Austria; C. Hellmich, H. Schmiedmayer, H. Stachelberger, Drifting on Alien Winds Is There a Temperature? I. C. Gebeshuber, Technische Universität Wien, Austria (Eds.) Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Conceptual Challenges at High Energy, Worlds Acceleration and Complexity Biomimetics – Materials, Ever since the Montgolfier’s hot air balloon carried Temperature and heat, entropy and order or Structures and Processes a chicken, a goat, and a duck into the Parisian disorder are key classical concepts of physics. Examples, Ideas and Case Studies skies, scientists have dreamed of contraptions These are challenged by searching matter under to explore the atmosphere. With the advent of extreme conditions, such as high (relativistic) The book presents an outline of current activities the space age, new airborne inventions were energy, strong acceleration or gravitation, or in the field of biomimetics and integrates a variety needed. From the Soviet Venus balloons to the unusual complexity due to long range correlations. of applications comprising biophysics, surface advanced studies of blimps and airplanes for the In our quest for quark matter all these conditions sciences, architecture and medicine. Biomimetics atmospheres of Mars and Titan, Drifting on Alien might occur simultaneously. This book, strongly as innovation method is characterised by inter- Winds surveys the many creative and often wacky motivated by the authors’ everyday research disciplinary information transfer from the life ideas for exploring alien skies. Through historical experiences in the field of high-energy heavy- sciences to technical application fields aiming at photographs and stunning original paintings by ion collisions, aims to bundle these challenges to increased performance, functionality and energy the author, readers also explore the weather on modern physics.The main topic is at the heart of efficiency. planets and moons, from the simmering acid- thermodynamics - the very concept of tempera- Readers will be informed about the latest research laden winds of Venus to liquid methane-soaked ture, its use and extensions. New developments on approaches and results in biomimetics with skies of Titan. this issue are both applications and foundations examples ranging from bionic nano-membranes of non-extensive statistics, as well as concepts to function-targeted design of tribological surfaces Features borrowed from gravity and string theory to and the translation of natural auditory coding 7 Provides an overview of the science of plan- describe the surprisingly statistical behavior of strategies. etary atmospheres and weather patterns of other elementary matter at the highest accelerator ener- planets and moons in our Solar System and how gies of the world. Features we learn about them 7 Written in an engaging 7 Presents state-of-the-art research results in journalistic style, which includes interviews with Features biomimetics and bio-inspired cellular struc- important scientists in the field 7 Richly illus- 7 Explores a single concept of quantitative tures 7 Provides guidance to the application of trated, including original artwork by the author, temperature across many research subfields of biomaterials 7 Gives ideas for the construction whose paintings have been highly prized physical research and phenomena 7 Provides of buildings by learning from the nature 7 Bionic readers with the tools to better understand the aspects of biodynamics desribed 7 Tribology in From the contents notion of temperature/entropy in extreme cases biology covered Preface: Something in the Air.- Part I: Starting such as relativity or on very small scales Here and Getting There.- Chapter 1: The Sky From the contents at Home.- Chapter 2: What It Really Takes to Contents MATERIAL STRUCTURE.- Bionic (Nano) Explore Alien Skies.- Chapter 3: Studies on the Introduction.- How to measure the tempera- Membranes.- Tribology in Biology.- Python Regius Fly.- Chapter 4: Studying the Weather from the ture.- How to interpret the temperature.- Fluc- (Ball Python) Shed Skin: Biomimetic Analogue Inside.- Part II: The Forecast - Clearing, with tuating temperature.- Complications with the for Function-Targeted Design of Tribo-Surfaces.- Scattered Ammonia Showers by Morning.- temperature.- The temperature of moving bodies.- Poro-Micromechanics as Analysis Tool for Chapter 5: Venus.- Chapter 6: Mars.- Chapter 7: The temperature of no return.- The temperature Revealing Mechanical Design principles in Bone Jupiter.- Chapter 8: Saturn and Titan.- Chapter in quantum field theory.- Afterword.- Solutions.- and Bone Biomaterials.- Bio-inspired Cellular 9: Uranus, Neptune, and Triton.- Part III: Future References. Structures: Solid Freeform Fabrication and Explorers.- Chapter 10: Future Ballons, Aircraft, Mechanical Properties.- Bio-inspired Technology and Upcoming Missions.- Chapter 11: To Venture Fields of interest of Fassads in Architectur. on Wilder Seas.- Glossary. Thermodynamics; Physical Chemistry; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory Fields of interest Fields of interest Biophysics and Biological Physics; Biomedical Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Popular Target groups Engineering; Biomaterials Science in Astronomy; Aerospace Technology and Research Astronautics Target groups Discount group Research Target groups P Popular/general Discount group P Discount group P
Due February 2011 Due March 2011 Due March 2011 2011. XIV, 310 p. 33 illus. (Fundamental Theories of 2011. 250 p. 70 illus. (Biological and Medical Physics, Physics, Volume 1014) Hardcover Biomedical Engineering) Hardcover 2011. XIV, 211 p. 203 illus., 53 in color. Hardcover 7 $169.00 7 $129.00 7 $59.95 ISBN 978-1-4419-8040-3 ISBN 978-3-642-11933-0 ISBN 978-1-4419-6916-3 44 Physics/Astronomy Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
M. Chaichian, University of Helsinki, Finland; M. Chaichian, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, D. L. Couprie, Limburg, The Netherlands I. Merches, A.I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania; Finland; I. Merches, A.I. Cuza University, Iasi, A. Tureanu, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Romania; A. Tureanu, University of Helsinki, Finland Heaven and Earth in Ancient Electrodynamics Mechanics Greek Cosmology From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus An Intensive Course An Intensive Course In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our Why a new book on Electrodynamics, since there This book on Classical Mechanics is addressed to world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells are so many, some of them being excellent? The advanced seniors and beginning graduate students the story. In Part One the reader is introduced answer refers to the method of exposure, the suit- who have physics as a major discipline, it offers a in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with ably selected applications and exercises, and last general view on analytical formalism and shows the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the but not least, the extremely useful fact that Elec- how it can be applied in different branches of theo- celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects trodynamics can by approached by an axiomatic retical physics, like thermodynamics, statistical treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted way, starting with a few fundamental principles physics, electrodynamics, field theory, magneto- celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive and arriving at electrostatics, Maxwell’s equations, fluid dynamics, special theory of relativity and chapter on archaic astronomical instruments. Part magnetofluid-dynamics etc., as particular cases. non-linear dynamics.Why a new book on Classical Two shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew This book is addressed both to undergraduate and Mechanics? First, because Classical Mechanics has up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a graduate students who have Physics as a major undergone an important revival during the last new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that discipline. Since any general course in Physics 10-15 years, associated with the progress in non- the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and should contain at least a chapter regarding the linear dynamics, applications of Noether’s theorem that the earth floats unsupported in space. This theory of electromagnetic field, it may also be used in both discrete and continuous systems, and last, makes him the founding father of cosmology. by those students and researchers studying Mathe- but not least, the extension of variational principles matics, Engineering, Physical Chemistry, as well as in different boundary sciences (Magnetofluid Features Astrophysics and Astronomy. A general survey on Dynamics, etc.). Second, because there is need for a 7 Contains over one hundred pictures to eluci- applicability of theoretical physics shows that only book mainly concerned with the applied analytical date the text, many of which are originally drawn few theories can be compared to Electrodynamics. formalism, which was first developed within the by the author 7 Provides readers with a compre- frame of Classical Mechanics, and then proved to hensive treatment of archaic astronomical instru- Features be a very useful tool of investigation in different ments and groundbreaking interpretations for how 7 Presents a comprehensive description of physical disciplines. they might have been used 7 Provides dozens electromagnetic phenomena and applications of of challenging new interpretations and historical electrodynamics with no less than 130 problems Features perspectives on ancient Greek cosmology and solutions 7 Applies an axiomatic approach, 7 Special attention is given to Noether’s theorem deriving the laws of electrodynamics from first and its applications in mechanics of discrete and Contents principles 7 Presents the first textbook in elec- continuous systems 7 Application-oriented The Archaic World-Picture.- Archaic Astronomical trodynamics based on the Bologna principles presentation of theoretical physics 7 More than Instruments.- How Thales Was Able to Predict 100 proposed problems Mathematical appendices the Solar Eclipse of 28 May 585 B.C..- The Shape Contents for tensor algebra and tensor calculus of the Earth According to Thales.- The Riddle of Electrostatic Field.- Field of Stationary Currents.- the Celestial Axis.- The First Map of the Earth.- Electromagnetic Field.- Electromagnetic Waves.- Contents Anaximander, and the Discovery of Space.- Anaxi- Elements of Magnetofluid Dynamics.- Special Foundations of Newtonian Mechanics.- The Prin- mander, A Survey of his Ideas.- The Discover of Relativity.- Minkowski Space.- Relativistic Formu- ciples of Analytical Mechanics.- Applications of Space: Anaximander’s Cosmology.- Anaximander’s lation of Electrodynamics in Minkowski Space.- the Lagrangian Formalism in the Study of Discrete Numbers: The Dimensions of the Universe.- The General Theory of Relativity.- Appendix. Particle Systems.- Rigid Body Mechanics.- Hamil- Visualization of Anaximander’s World-Picture.- tonian Formalism.- Mechanics of Continuous Bellows or Lightning? A Curious Terminology Fields of interest Deformable Media.- Addendum: Post-Classical Explained. Optics and Electrodynamics; Theoretical, Math- Mechanics. ematical and Computational Physics Fields of interest Fields of interest History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Target groups Mechanics; Applications of Mathematics; Appl. Cosmology; Philosophy of Science Upper undergraduate Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engi- neering Target groups Discount group Research P Target groups Upper undergraduate Discount group P Discount group P
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R. Cross, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia R. Dupke, J. Alcaniz, R. d. Reza, S. Daflon, National B. Duplantier, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Observatory of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil T. C. Halsey, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Physics of Baseball & Softball (Eds.) Company, Houston, TX, USA; V. Rivasseau, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (Eds.) This book describes the physics of baseball and Graduate School in softball, assuming that the reader has a basic Glasses and Grains background in both physics and mathematics. The Astronomy Poincaré Seminar 2009 physics will be explained in a conversational style, XIV Special Courses at the National with words and illustrations, so that the explana- Observatory of Rio de Janeiro tions make sense. The book provides an excel- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16-19 November 2009 This tenth book in the Poincar´e Seminar Series lent opportunity to explain physics at a relatively describes recent developments in the statistical simple level, even though the primary objective Lectures on early universe models which can physics of two related but still poorly understood is to explain the many subtle features concerning explain the currently observed structure on large topics – glasses, especially the glass transition, and the physics of baseball. For those readers who scales. Survey of inflationary cosmology, the the statics and dynamics of granular systems. This already know quite a bit of physics and who will be current paradigm for understanding the origin of field has emerged as one of the most challenging comfortable with mathematical equations, addi- the universe as we observe it today. Progress and frontiers of statistical physics in the last two tional material of this nature will be provided in problems in inflationary cosmology. Description of decades, and is notable for its very active inter- appendices. The latest research findings and statis- two alternative scenarios- the Matter Bounce and change between experiment, theory, and numerical tical data have been incorporated by the author. String Gas Cosmology. Lectures on basic concepts studies. Both, the theoretical and experimental The book also contains many simple experiments of the stellar atmospheres theory. Efficient numer- aspects are covered, and particular care is devoted that the reader can perform to convince them- ical methods dealing with the stellar atmosphere to the pedagogical nature of the presentations. selves that the effects described do indeed exist. problem, namely the method of complete linear- The book is directed towards a large audience of ization and Accelerated Lambda Iteration. The physicists and mathematicians. Features lectures summarize existing computer codes, with 7 Explains the physics behind the game of an emphasis on TLUSTY. Useful grids of model Features baseball instead of explaining baseball in terms of atmospheres and how the model atmospheres and 7 Provides up-to-date information about a phys- physics 7 Will have wide appeal to individuals synthetic spectra are used in quantitative stellar ical topic of great interest 7 Covers theoretical who have at least a rudimentary knowledge of spectroscopy in order to determine basic stellar as well as experimental aspects 7 Addresses both physics 7 Physics are discussed in a conversa- parameters and chemical abundances. the professional and graduate levels tional manner, with few equations 7 Appendices include advanced material for those with a tech- Features Fields of interest nical background 7 AIP Conference Proceedings report findings Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and presented at many of the most important scientific Complexity Contents meetings around the world 7 Published proceed- Preface.- 1. Basic Physics.- 2. Bats and Balls.- 3. ings are valuable as topical status reports providing Target groups Ball Trajectories.- 4. Pitching Trajectories.- 5. quick access to information before it appears in the Research Pitching Mechanics.- 6. Swinging a Bat.- 7. traditional journal literature Contacting the Ball.- 8. Elastic Properties of Balls.- Discount group 9. Ball Hysteresis.- 10. Collisions.- 11.Bat Perfor- Fields of interest P mance.- 12. Bat Vibrations.- 13. The Trampoline Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Effect.- 14. The Sweet Spot of a Baseball Bat.- 15. Cosmology Flexible Bat Handles.- 16. Ball Bounce and Spin.- 17. Ball Spin Generated by a Bat.- 18. Bat and Ball Target groups Projects.- Conversion Factors. Research
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D. Fursaev, Dubna International University, Russia; S. Kumar, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, A. Matsuoka, Institute of Space & Astronautical D. Vassilevich, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Canada (Ed.) Science, Kanagawa, Japan; C. Russell, University of Andre, SP, Brazil California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Eds.) Impact of Nonlinearities on Operators, Geometry and Fiber Optic Communication The Kaguya Mission to the Quanta Moon Methods of Spectral Geometry in Quantum This book covers the recent progress in fiber-optic Field Theory communication systems with a main focus on JAXA’s Kaguya mission was successfully launched the impact of fiber nonlinearities on the system to the Moon on September 14, 2007 reaching This book gives a detailed and self-contained performance. Over the past few years, there has its nominal 100 km circular orbit on October introduction into the theory of spectral func- been significant progress in coherent communica- 19 after releasing two subsatellites Okina and tions, with an emphasis on their applications to tion systems mainly because of the advances in Ouna in elliptical orbits with perilunes of 100 km quantum field theory. All methods are illustrated digital signal processing techniques. This has led and apolunes of 2400 and 800 km respectively. with applications to specific physical problems to renewed interest in fiber linear and nonlinear Observations were obtained for 10 months during from the forefront of current research, such as impairments and techniques to mitigate them in the nominal mission beginning in mid-December finite-temperature field theory, D-branes, quantum electrical domain. In this book, the reader will find 2007 followed by 8 month extended mission where solitons and noncommutativity. In the first part of all the important topics of fiber optic communica- data were obtained in lower orbits.The articles the book, necessary background information on tion systems in one place with in-depth coverage in this book were written by experts in each of differential geometry and quantization, including by the experts of each subtopics. Pioneers from the scientific areas of the Kaguya mission, and less standard material, is collected. The second each of the sub-topics have been invited to describe both the mission and the individual scien- part of the book contains a detailed description contribute. Each chapter will have a section on tific investigations, including their objectives, the of main spectral functions and methods of their fundamentals, review of literature survey and specifications of the instruments, their calibrations calculation. In the third part, the theory is applied the recent developments. The reader will benefit and initial results. This book is essential reading to several examples (D-branes, quantum solitons, from this approach since many of the conference to all potential users of the Kaguya data and those anomalies, noncommutativity). proceedings and journal articles mainly focus on interested in the scientific results of the mission, the authors’ research work without spending space the properties of the lunar surface and crust and on preliminaries. planetary exploration in general. Features 7 Bridges the physical applications of heat kernel Features Features theories with the mathematical foundations 7 Comprehensively covers experiments, theory 7 The only collection of articles describing the 7 Some material, e.g. non-linear spectral prob- and numerical simulation of fiber-optic commu- mission and instrumention of Kaguya 7 Details lems, appears for the first time in a monograph nication systems 7 Contains contributions from the measurements and scientific investigations form 7 Examples from the forefront of current experts and pioneers around the world in fiber- collected during the Kaguya mission research (quantum solitons, noncommutativity, optics 7 Includes several chapters on OFDM etc) worked out in detail technology, which has now drawn significant Fields of interest interest in optical communication Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Plan- Fields of interest etology; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics Mathematical Methods in Physics; Global Analysis Fields of interest and Analysis on Manifolds; Quantum Field Theo- Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Target groups ries, String Theory Devices; Communications Engineering, Networks; Research Optical and Electronic Materials Target groups Discount group Research Target groups P Research Discount group P Discount group P
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330 p., 5 images, 1st edition Due April 2011 Previously published in Space Science Reviews Volume xxx 2010 2011. 330 p. 5 illus. (Theoretical and Mathematical 2011. 400 p. 279 illus. (Optical and Fiber Physics) Hardcover Communications Reports, Volume 7) Hardcover 2011. 350 p. Hardcover 7 $119.00 7 approx. $169.00 7 $169.00 ISBN 978-94-007-0204-2 ISBN 978-1-4419-8138-7 ISBN 978-1-4419-8121-9 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 12/2010 Physics/Astronomy 47
E. Milone, University of Calgary, AB, Canada; M. Ohtsu, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan (Ed.) L. Papantonopoulos, National Technical University C. Sterken, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, of Athens, Greece (Ed.) Belgium (Eds.) Progress in Nanophotonics I From Gravity to Thermal Astronomical Photometry This book focuses on the recent progress in nanophotonics technology to be used to develop Gauge Theories Past, Present, and Future novel nano-optical devices, fabrication technology, The AdS/CFT Correspondence and security systems. It begins with a review of This book will bring together experts in the field the concept of dressed photons and applications The AdS/CFT correspondence is a powerful tool of astronomical photometry to discuss how their to devices, fabrication, and systems; principles in studying strongly coupled phenomena in gauge subfields provide the precision and accuracy in and applications. Further topics include: DNA field theories, using results from a weakly coupled astronomical energy flux measurements that are process for quantum dot chain, photon enhanced gravity background studied in the realm of string needed to permit tests of astrophysical theo- emission microscopy, near field spectroscopy of theory. AdS/CFT was first successfully applied ries. Differential photometers and photometry, metallic nanostructure, self-organized fabrication to the study of phenomena such as the quark- improvements in infrared precision, the improve- of composite semiconductor quantum dots, forma- gluon plasma produced in heavy ions collisions. ments in precision and accuracy of CCD tion of metallic nanostructure, and nanophotonic Soon it was realized that its applicability can be photometry, the absolute calibration of flux, the information systems with security. These topics are extended, in a more phenomenological approach, development of the Johnson UBVRI photometric reviewed by seven leading scientists. This overview to condensed matter systems and to systems system and other passband systems to measure and is a variable resource for engineers and scientists described by fluid dynamics. The set of tutorial precisely classify specific types of stars and astro- working in the field of nanophotonics. reviews in this volume is intended as an introduc- physical quantities, and the current capabilities of tion to and survey of the principle of the AdS/CFT spectrophotometry, and polarimetry to provide Features correspondence in its field/string theoretic formu- precise and accurate data, will all be discussed in 7 Represents a review of recent state of the arton lation, its applicability to holographic QCD and to this volume. in optical nanotechnology 7 Displays most heavy ions collisions, and to give a first account of recent results of advanced studies 7 Covers a processes in fluid dynamics and condensed matter Features wide range of topics from basic studies to applica- physics, which can be studied with the use of this 7 No other current title offers a comprehensive tions principle. discussion of the development, importance, and practice of astronomical photometry 7 The Contents Features importance of standardization has received much Nanophotonics: Dressed photon technology for 7 Compact introduction to the ADS/CFT attention in recent years, however, especially for qualitatively innovative optical devices, fabrica- correspondence 7 First thorough introduction to space missions and for infrared photometry, as tion, and systems.- DNA process for quantum dot and survey of potential applications in condensed evidenced by a conference on the subject held in chain.- Photon enhanced emission microscopy.- matter and fluid systems 7 Pedagogical and Blankenberge, Belgium in May, 2006 Nearfield spectroscopy of metallic nanostruc- self-contained presentation, suitable as high-level ture.- Self-organized fabrication of composite self-study guide Fields of interest semiconductor quantum dots.- Metallic nano- Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Signal, Image structure.- Nanophotonic information systems Fields of interest and Speech Processing; Measurement Science and with security. Quantum Field Theories, String Theory; Elemen- Instrumentation tary Particles, Quantum Field Theory; Strongly Fields of interest Correlated Systems, Superconductivity Target groups Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics; Research Laser Technology, Photonics; Nanoscale Science Target groups and Technology Research Discount group P Target groups Discount group Research P
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2011. 226 p. 94 illus., 47 in color. (Astrophysics and Space 2011. 250 p. 100 illus. (Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics) 2011. 470 p. (Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 828) Science Library, Volume 373) Hardcover Hardcover Softcover 7 approx. $129.00 7 $129.00 7 $89.95 ISBN 978-1-4419-8049-6 ISBN 978-3-642-17480-3 ISBN 978-3-642-04863-0 48 Physics/Astronomy Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
P. Simpson, Cloudcroft, NM, USA Guidebook to the Constellations Telescopic Sights, Tales, and Myths
This handbook is a guide to exploring the classical night sky and its wonderful telescopic sights. All 88 officially recognized constellations are presented in natural groups which are related by their origin and location in the sky. Each group is explained by a fascinating story which tells what each constel- lation represents, how it appears in the sky, and why the other constellations of the group are close by, or related in some other manner. Some of these stories are classical myths which show how and why ancient cultures saw the constellations as related groups. Others are about more modern astronomers who sought recognition by filling in the gaps between the ancient constellations with inventions of their own.
Features 7 Organizes all 88 constellations into logical and easily remembered groups 7 Explains the myths and stories associated with the constella- tions 7 Includes numerous star names along with the ancient phrases from which the names were derived, along with a guide to pronunciation of each name"Connect the stars" figures accurately portray the constellations as they were originally visualized
Contents How to Observe the Sky Using this Book.- The North Circumpolar Constellations.- The Andromeda Group.- The Orion Group.- The Hercules Group.- The Boötes Group.- The Corvus Group.- The Aquila Group.- The Argo Navis Group.- The Lyra Group.- The Gemini Group.- The Watery Part of the Sky.- Other Northern Constellations.- Modern Constellations Formed by Plancius.- Modern Constellations Formed by Plancius Keyser.- Modern Constellations Formed by Hevelius.- Modern Constellations Formed by Lacaille.- Glossary of Terms.- Appendices.- Index.
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R. E. Hummel, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, USA Electronic Properties of Materials
This text on the electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties of materials stresses concepts rather than mathematical formalism. Suitable for advanced undergraduates, it is intended for mate- rials and electrical engineers who want to gain a fundamental understanding of alloys, semicon- ductor devices, lasers, magnetic materials, and so forth. The book is organized to be used in a one- semester course; to that end each section of appli- cations, after the introduction to the fundamentals of electron theory, can be read independently of the others. Many examples from engineering prac- tice serve to provide an understanding of common devices and methods.
Features 7 Widely used, course-tested text is now available in an updated Fourth Edition 7 Introduces the elements of solid-state physics that are required to understand the coverage of electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties of materials and their applications 7 Stresses concepts rather than mathematical formalism
From the contents Part I: Fundamentals of Electron Theory: In- troduction. Wave Properties of Electrons. The Schroedinger Equation. Solution of the Schroed- inger Equation for Four Specific Problems. Energy Bands in Crystals. Electrons in a Crystal.- Part II: Electrical Properties of Materials: Electrical Conduction in Metals and Alloys. Semiconduc- tors. Electrical Properties of Polymers, Ceramics, Dielectrics and Amorphous Materials.- Part III: Optical Properties of Materials: The Optical Con- stants. Atomistic Theory of the Optical Properties. Quantum Mechanical Treatment of the Optical Properties. Applications.- Part IV: Magnetic Prop- erties of Materials: Foundations of Magnetism. Magnetic Phenomena and Their Interpretation - Classical Approach.
Fields of interest Optical and Electronic Materials; Solid State Physics; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation
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N. Basavaiah, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, K. Bhattacharyya, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, C. Cassatella, A. Peano, Politecnico and Università di Navi Mumbai, India MI, USA Torino, Italy (Eds.) Geomagnetism The Lower Damodar River, Landscape Indicators Solid Earth and Upper Atmosphere India Assessing and Monitoring Landscape Quality Perspectives Understanding the Human Role in Changing Fluvial Environment In recent years EU policy towards the ‘landscape’ With the awareness that the Earth has a magnetic has become better defined, whereas at the same field, its mathematical description, discovery of Interweaving the human aspects of river control time the notion of ‘landscape’ itself remains remanent magnetisation in rocks and discovery with analysis of hydro-physical data, including elusive. The need for indicators to evaluate and of the periodic reversals of the geomagnetic field historical data over the last few centuries, this monitor the effects of landscape policies and polarity, geomagnetism within geophysics became monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the plans is urgent. What is more, landscape is one an interesting field of study. This is primarily Damodar’s lower reaches. While the Damodar of the components considered in environmental due to advances in measurement technology and River isn’t an exceptional tropical river, nor does it reporting, but unlike air, soil, or water, it is difficult improved understanding of the magnetic field and feature classic examples of river control struc- to measure using quantitative methods.With its fluctuations in the geospace. Several important tures, it is unusual and worthy of study due to the studies on landscape indicators being as rare as aspects of solid Earth geomagnetism are elaborated fact that nowhere else in the tropical world have they are, this volume is an attempt to fill the gap, in the book. The first six chapters cover the basics riverine sandbars been used as a resource base as dealing as it does with the definition and use of of magnetism, magnetic minerals, biomagnetics, well as for permanent settlements. Based on their specific indicators for landscape assessment and instrumentation and the behavior of geomagnetic knowledge of river stages, the inhabitants have monitoring. field, while the rest of the book is devoted to prac- fine-tuned their land use to flood events, applying tical applications with carefully selected examples a concept of flood zoning to the riverbed. Every Features and illustrations. Well-written and easy to read, the available space has been utilized rationally and 7 Provides the definition and use of specific indi- book vividly describes modern techniques in the judiciously.This rare human-environmental study cators for landscape assessment and monitoring subject matter covered, adequately supported by analyzes the remarkable way in which immigrants 7 Written by a team of experts in various land- graphical explanations for complex mathematical unfamiliar with the riverine environment have scape topics 7 Contains an extensive bibliog- concepts. adapted to the altered hydrologic regime of the raphy for studying the landscape from a multidis- river. ciplinary perspective Features 7 Excellent reference book 7 Up-to-date mate- Features Contents rial in geomagnetism 7 Latest advances and 7 Discusses the hydro-geomorphic and social Foreword.- 1. Landscape Assessment and Moni- trends in supporting geo-scientific studies changes in longstanding flow regulation of the toring.- 2. Indicators Assessment Systems.- 3. Indi- 7 Bridges the gap between theory and practice in Lower Damodar River in India 7 Presents a cators Used for Landscape.- 4. Landscape Assess- a coherent manner 7 Exhaustive Bibliography comprehensive analysis of hydro-physical data ment: the Ecological Profile.- 5. Indicators for the including historical data over the last few centuries Assessment of Historic Landscape Features.- From the contents 7 Examines both hydro-geomorphic and anthro- 6. Measuring Visual and Social Perceptions.- 1. Historical perspective.- 2. Internal magnetic pogenic land utilization processes 7. Land Use Indicators for Landscape Assessment.- field.- 3. Magnetic field that extends into space.- 8. Assessing the Economic Aspects of Land- 4. Instrumentation.- 5. Biomagnetism.- 6. Magnetic Fields of interest scape.- 9. Proposal for a Set of Indicators.- List of observatory and data analysis.- 7. Solid Earth Hydrogeology; Waste Water Technology / Water abbreviations.- Index. geomagnetism.- 8. Upper atmosphere studies.- Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic 9. Usefullness of geomagnetic research. Pollution ; Physical Geography Fields of interest Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Envi- Fields of interest Target groups ronmental Management; Human Geography Geophysics/Geodesy; Geology; Astrophysics and Research Astroparticles Target groups Discount group Research Target groups P Research Discount group P Discount group P
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S. Iai, Kyoto, Japan (Ed.) J. D. Istok, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA Z. Lu, USGS Cascades Observatory, Vancouver, BC, Canada; D. Dzurisin, USGS Cascades Observatory, Geotechnics and Earthquake Push-Pull Tests for Site Vancouver, WA, USA Geotechnics Towards Global Characterization InSAR Imaging of Aleutian Sustainability The push-pull test is a powerful site characteriza- Volcanoes Although the subject of global sustainability needs tion technique that has been applied to a wide Monitoring a Volcanic Arc from Space urgent contributions from various disciplines or range of problems in contaminant hydrogeology. interdisciplinary approach, this subject demands The theoretical and practical apsects of push-pull Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) much more large and long perspective in terms testing were initially developed to characterize is a relatively new remote sensing tool that is of space and time than our common practice in groundwater acquifers but the method has now capable of measuring ground-surface deformation the expertise of geotechnics/earthquake geotech- been extended to saturated and unsaturated soils with centimeter-to-subcentimeter precision at a nics. The book provides an initiative, as an initial, and sediments as well as to surface water bodies. spatial resolution of tens of meters over an area unprecedented, bold step, towards approaching Dr. Istok and his collaborators have been instru- of hundreds to thousands of square kilometers. this challenging subject from the discipline of mental in the development of these techniques With its global coverage and all-weather imaging geotechnics/earthquake geotechnics through the and he is widely recognized as the world’s leading capability, InSAR has become an increasingly contributions by 15 world leading experts. Inten- expert push-pull testing. This is the only reference important technique for studying volcanoes in sive discussions among these experts took place book available on this powerful method. remote regions such as the Aleutian Islands. The in Kyoto during Kyoto Seminar 2010, January spatial distribution of surface deformation data 12-14, 2010. All the manuscripts in this book were Features derived from InSAR images enables the construc- written after the seminar thoroughly reflecting the 7 Unique book on push-pull tests in hydroge- tion of detailed mechanical models to enhance the intensive and stimulating discussions at Kyoto. Soil ology 7 Invaluable to students and lecturers alike study of magmatic processes. in one form or another covers most of the surface 7 Dr. Istok and his team are the leaders in this of the planet, and yet soil mechanics as such does field Features not seem to be a big factor in sustainability. 7 Details, for the first time, different styles of Contents volcanism along a single volcanic arc 7 Illus- Features Introduction.- 1. Push-pull tests.- 2. Setting up a trated in colour throughout with unpublished 7 Geotechnics/earthquake geotechnics in future- site.- 3. Evaluation of site.- 4. Improvement of site.- high-resolution, high-quality satellite radar images International perspectives towards global sustain- 5. Long-term prognosis.- 6. The shape of things to 7 Supplies satellite InSAR deformation images of ability by world leading experts 7 Unexpectedly come.- 7. Analysis. a wide spectrum of more than 40 active Aleu- large scale and long range in space and time tian volcanoes 7 Describes eruptive style, size, 7 Thought provoking ideas and stimulating Fields of interest volume, and magma composition of volcanoes materials for geotechnics/earthquake geotechnics Hydrogeology; Geotechnical Engineering; Sedi- along the entire Aleutian arc 7 Eye-opener and new opportunity for futuristic mentology thinking geotechnical engineers Fields of interest Target groups Geophysics/Geodesy; Remote Sensing/Photogram- Contents Research metry; Geology Preface.- Prologue: Designing for Sustainability.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Seismic Hazards.- 3 Lifelines Discount group Target groups in Megcities.- 4 Infrastructure.- 5 Geotechnics P Research and Society.- 6 World Heritage in Asia.- 7 Coastal Protection.- 8 Combined Hazards.- 9 Urban Discount group Microzonation.- 10 Slope Failure.- 11 Geo- P Hazards.- 12 Exploring Non-Gravity Geotechnics.- 13 Soil Mechanics.- Index.
Fields of interest Geotechnical Engineering; Sustainable Develop- ment; Civil Engineering
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Due April 2011 Due March 2011 Due April 2011 Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK 2011. X, 294 p. 190 illus., 140 in color. (Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, Volume 15) 2011. X, 180 p. (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 2011. 300 p. 40 illus. (Springer Praxis Books / Hardcover Volume 117) Hardcover Geophysical Sciences) Hardcover 7 $129.00 7 approx. $139.00 7 approx. $249.00 ISBN 978-94-007-0469-5 ISBN 978-3-642-13919-2 ISBN 978-3-642-00347-9 52 Earth Sciences/Geography Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
K. Mallick, A. Vasanthi, National Geophysical G. Panza, University of Trieste, Italy; K. Irikura, Aichi Research Institute, Hyderabad, India; K. Sharma, Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan; University of Madras, Chennai, India M. Kouteva-Guentcheva, Bulgarian Academy of New Series Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; A. Peresan, University Bouguer Gravity Regional and of Trieste, Italy; Z. Wang, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KT, USA; R. Saragoni, University of Chile, Residual Separation Santiago, Chile (Eds.) Application to Geology and Environment Coastal Research Library Advanced Seismic Hazard The resolution of regional and residual compo- Series editor: C. W. Finkl nents arising out of the deeper and shallower Assessment sources from the observed Bouguer gravity Part I: Seismic Hazard Assessment The aim of this book series is to disseminate anomalies is an age-old problem. Several analytical information to the coastal research community. techniques have been developed to compute the Issues pertaining to urban risks are a pressing The Series covers all aspects of coastal research regional or residual. The common shortcoming of concern for people involved in disasters mitiga- including but not limited to relevant aspects of these methods is that the total data set is consid- tion. Development of effective mitigation strategies geological sciences, biology (incl. ecology and ered to evaluate the regional. As a result of this, a requires sound seismic hazard information that coastal marine ecosystems), geomorphology small portion of residual is left out in the regional. is commonly derived through a seismic hazard (physical geography), climate, littoral oceanog- In our new technique, the entire data set is no assessment (SHA). The purpose of SHA is to raphy, coastal hydraulics, environmental (resource) more required for regional computation. Instead, provide a scientifically consistent estimate of management, engineering, and remote sensing. a square or a rectangle region is chosen and the seismic hazard for engineering design and other Policy, coastal law, and relevant issues such as gravity values at its corner and mid-side nodes considerations. The time is ripe to move beyond conflict resolution and risk management would represent the regional. The weighted sum of these the old paradigms of the traditional Probabilistic also be covered by the Series. The scope of the discrete gravity values yields the regional field. This Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA). Although there Series is broad and with a unique cross-disci- technique has been tested for gravity data sets in are many approaches available for SHA, this plinary nature. The Series would tend to focus on several fields and the performance in each case volume advocates the advanced methods for SHA topics that are of current interest and which carry has been better than that obtained by the existing that utilize up to date earthquake science and basic some import as opposed to traditional titles that techniques. scientific principles to derive the seismic hazard in are esoteric and non-controversial. Monographs as terms of a ground motion or related quantity and well as contributed volumes are welcomed. Features its occurrence frequency at a site, as well as the 7 Interprets satellite gravity data 7 Computa- associated uncertainty. tion of isostatic anomalies 7 Mineral and Hydro- carbon exploration Features 7 Provides a fresh, but comprehensive multi- From the contents disciplinary, physically sound approach to Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Regional and residual Advanced Seismic Hazard Assessment 7 Bridges gravity anomalies : The existing issues.- the gap between modern interdisciplinary research 3. New computational schemes.- 4. Applications to and problems faced by practitioners in earth- geological and environmental problems.- quake risk management 7 Motivates a change 5. Hydrocarbon.- 6. Minerals and Groundwater.- in perspective with respect to approaches and 7. Structural studies.- 8. Isostatic studies.- paradigms 9. Vertical Crustal Movements.- 10. Engineering Applications and earthquake studies. Fields of interest Natural Hazards Fields of interest Geophysics/Geodesy; Applied Earth Sciences; Target groups Engineering, general Research
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G. Schernewski, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea G. Tiess, University of Leoben, Austria M. Tsou, University San Diego, CA, USA Research, Warnemünde, Germany; J. Hofstede, Schleswig-Holstein State Ministry for Agriculture, Introduction to Mineral Designing Web Map Services Environment and Rural Areas, Kiel, Germany; T. Neumann, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Resources Policy and Network-based Warnemünde, Germany (Eds.) Cybercartography The textbook is intended for students and lecturers Global Change and Baltic in the field of natural resources policy. Every year, This book provides a comprehensive introduction about 30 students begin their academic studies in of web map services including online map design Coastal Zones the branch of Natural Resources at the University principles, theories of cybercartography, various of Mining and Metallurgy in Leoben. There are real-world mapping applications, and the related In the Baltic region, Climate Change and ongoing several institutions worldwide offering mining Web GIS technologies. The goal of this book is to transformation processes in economy and agricul- programs, among them the German-speaking provide a practical learning guide to cartographic ture will have strong and multiple impacts. Espe- universities of Aachen, Freiberg, and Clausthal. graduate students and GIS/Cartography profes- cially coastal zones face increasing hazards e.g. sionals who are interested in developing web due to sea level rise or changes in riverine nutrient Features mapping applications. Recent developments of loads and eutrophication. Especially in the Baltic, 7 Status quo of mineral endowment and poten- network-based cybercartography has created a these changes also offer a wide range of new tial 7 Challenges of national and international strong interest and academic research emphasis opportunities. Adaptation measures are needed economy 7 Strategies for creating an attractive in the area of web mapping. This book provides but require a thorough and spatially differentiated and effective policy a systematic overview and step-by-step training understanding of underlying ecological, economic modules for GIS/Cartography professionals. and social processes. The book addresses these Contents changes, their consequences, practical challenges Introduction – general issues.- THEORETICAL Features as well as adaptation strategies and measures with PART - Scientific classification of ‘minerals 7 The first comprehensive and coherent learning focus on coastal zones. policy’.- MINERALS SPECIFIC PART.- guide that provides a systematic overview and MINERALS SPECIFIC PART - RELATED step-by-step training modules for professionals Features ISSUES.- MINERAL RAW MATERIAL and students in web map services 7 Balanced 7 Both climate change and socio-economic trans- MARKETS.- MINERALS POLICY PART.- LEGAL view between the technology-oriented and skill formations processes, as well as their interaction, ISSUES.- PRACTICAL PART of the book.- Finally trainings and the theory -oruented map design are considered 7 Beside risks, the chances and remark. emphasis 7 Suitable for course use (senior opportunities of global change for the region are undergraduate/graduate) for GIS/Cartography addressed 7 The practitioners' perspective and Fields of interest their demands play an important role 7 Concrete Mineral Resources; International & Foreign Law/ Contents adaptation examples and strategies are given Comparative Law; International Economics 1. Introduction to Web Mapping Design.- 2. The Development of Network-based Cybercartog- Fields of interest Target groups raphy.- 3. Getting Started with Web Mapping Coastal Sciences; Climate Change; Environmental Graduate Tools.- 4. The Design Principles of Web Mapping.- Management 5. The Technologies of Web Mapping.- 6. Evalua- Discount group tion and Maintenance of Web Map Services.- Target groups P 7. On-line Mapping Case Study.- 8. Mobile Research Mapping.- 9. Future Directions and Conclusion.
Discount group Fields of interest P Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Media Design; Multimedia Information Systems
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2011. X, 390 p. 160 illus., 60 in color. (Coastal Research 2011. Approx. 250 p. (Springers Kurzlehrbücher der 2011. 300 p. (Advances in Geographic Information Library, Volume 1) Hardcover Wirtschaftswissenschaften) Softcover Science) Hardcover 7 approx. $179.00 7 approx. $59.95 7 approx. $199.00 ISBN 978-94-007-0399-5 ISBN 978-3-7091-0058-5 ISBN 978-3-540-74856-4 54 Earth Sciences/Geography Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
T. Wong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; B. Yuen, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Eds.) Eco-city Planning Policies, Practice and Design
Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable develop- ment with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach. Instead, the interdependency of human and non-human species has forced us to appreciate the ‘rights’ and ‘intrinsic values’ of non-human species in our pursuit for a sustain- able ecosystem. This volume has as approach an emphasis on environmental planning policies whereby, for example, energy saving, anti-pollution measures, use of non-car modes, construction of green buildings, safeguarding of nature and natural habitats in urban areas, and use of more renew- able resources resources are promotional norms. Their aims and leading outcome serve to protect the Earth from adverse effects of global warming and different sources of pollution threatening the quality of life of human societies.
Features 7 Highlights the eco-city development experi- ence in Asia, notably China, and the United Kingdom, and with reference to European cases 7 Strong planning-orientated 7 Covers eco-city consideration in the area of housing from slum sustainable development in Kenya to high-density, high-rise public housing sustainable development in Singapore
Fields of interest Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Physical Geography
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R. E. Hester, University of York, UK; R. Harrison, Reviews of Environmental University of Birmingham, UK (Eds.) Contamination and Sustainable Water Toxicology Continuation of Residue Reviews Focusing on the sustainability of water supplies to the growing populations throughout the world, this volume consists of articles contributed by Series editors: C. Gerba, O. Hutzinger, J. B. Knaak, experts drawn from around the globe. Issues R. S. Tjeerdema, P. d. Voogt, J. Giesy, J. T. Stevens, covered include: policy making in the European Editor-in-chief: D. M. Whitacre Union; rural water supplies in Africa; chemical Series editors: M. F. Cavieres, G. Ware monitoring and analytical methods; water use in agriculture; social justice in supplying water; Volume 211 potable water recycling, and sustainable water treatment. The book will be useful to those D. M. Whitacre, Reviews of Environmental working in the water industry, policy makers and Contamination and Toxicology (Ed.) planners, researchers and environmental consul- tants, and students in environmental science, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and technology, engineering, and management. Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and signifi- Features cant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in 7 Timely 7 Written by experts 7 Presents hot the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the topics in environmental science environment, as well as toxicological implications.
Contents Features Water sustainability and climate change in the 7 This volume looks at a case study on the EU and global context.- Climate change and water quality of Izmir Bay 7 Teratogenicity and rural water supply in Africa.- The European embryotoxicity in aquatic organisms after pesticide Water Framework Directive - chemical moni- exposure and the role of oxidative stress toring programs, results from an Irish case study 7 Mixtures of environmental pollutants and analytical challenges.- Managing the water 7 Fluoride in the environment and its metabolism footprint of irrigated food production in the UK.- in humans Climate change and water - a Scottish perspective.- Social justice and water.- Safe management of Contents chemical contaminants for planned potable water Foreword.- Preface.- The Water Quality of Izmir recycling.- High science, low technology - a poten- Bay: A Case Study.- Teratogenicity and Embryo- tial approach for sustainable water resources.- toxicity in Aquatic Organisms after Pesticide Nanomaterials for groundwater remediation. Exposure and the Role of Oxidative Stress.- Mixtures of Environmental Pollutants: Effects on Fields of interest Microorganisms and Their Activities in Soils.- Waste Water Technology,Water Pollution Control, Fluoride in the Environment and its Metabolism in Water Management, Aquatic Pollution; Sustainable Humans.- Index. Development; Monitoring, Environmental Analysis Fields of interest Target groups Ecotoxicology; Environmental Management; Research Waste Management/Waste Technology
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H. Berger, Technisches Büro für Ökologie, Salzburg, M. Boos, University of Göttingen, Germany; G. Chirici, Università degli Studi del Molise, Pesche Austria M. Kolbe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; P. Kappeler, (IS), Italy; S. Winter, Technische Universität München, University of Göttingen, Germany; T. Ellwart, Germany; R. E. McRoberts, U.S. Forest Service, Monograph of the University of Trier, Germany (Eds.) St. Paul, MN, USA (Eds.) Gonostomatidae and Coordination in Human and National Forest Inventories: Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, Primate Groups Contributions to Forest Hypotricha) Biodiversity Assessments Coordination in Human and Primate Groups The present monograph is the fourth of six presents one of the first collections of the different Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, volumes which review the Hypotricha, a major approaches and methods used to assess coordina- economic, and social well-being of earth’s civilisa- group of the spirotrichs. The book is about the tion processes in groups. Written by psychologists tions. Unfortunately, however, forest biodiversity is Gonostomatidae, the Kahliellidae, and some taxa of and primatologists, the book represents a broad threatened to a serious degree in nearly all coun- unknown position in the hypotrichs. Gonostomum range of coordination research fields such as social tries. Therefore, many countries have agreed to was previously misclassified in the Oxytrichidae psychology, work and organizational psychology, be parties to international agreements focused on because its type species Gonostomum affine has medicine, primatology, and behavioural ecology. It maintaining, restoring, and monitoring biodiver- basically an 18-cirri pattern, which is dominant is designed for researchers and practitioners inter- sity; further, these countries have agreed to report in the oxytrichids. A new hypothesis, considering ested in understanding the behavioural aspects of to international bodies on forest biodiversity also molecular data, postulates that this 18-cirri group coordination. status and trends. NFIs are the primary source of pattern evolved in the last common ancestor of the large-scale information available for this purpose, hypotrichs and therefore it appears throughout the Features but the large variety of definitions, protocols, Hypotricha tree. The simple dorsal kinety pattern, 7 Presents an overview of the variety of the latest sampling designs, and plot configurations used by composed of only three bipolar dorsal kineties, assessment methods of group coordination and NFIs makes comparable international reporting and gene sequence analyses strongly suggest that the scope of their potential applications and good extremely difficult. Gonostomum branches off rather early in the practice for implementation 7 Present the latest phylogenetic tree. research on human and primate group coordi- Features nation 7 Sketches a baseline for comparative 7 Reports the first attempt to use data from Features research about human and primate group research National Forest Inventories for harmonized forest 7 Summarises the morphology, fauna and biodiversity assessments 7 Fully covers the most ecology of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae From the contents commonly assessed forest biodiversity features 7 Including 68 species distributed in 21 genera Part I Theoretical Approaches to Group Coordina- from deadwood to forest structure and natural- and revised subgenera 7 Featuring more than tion.- Coordination in Human and Nonhuman ness 7 Provides practical tools and examples for 270 figures 7 Offers thorough up-to-date revi- Primate Groups: Why Compare and How?.- An the harmonized estimation of forest biodiversity sion for taxonomists, cell biologists, and ecologists Inclusive Model of Group Coordination.- Coor- indicators 7 Presents harmonization examples dination of Group Movements in Nonhuman based on real NFI plot data Contents Primates.- Dimensions of Group Coordination: A General Section.- B Systematic Section.- Applicability Test of the Coordination Mechanism Contents Gonostomatidae (33 species).- Kahliellidae Circumplex Model.- The Role of Coordination in 1. The need for harmonized estimates of forest (15 species).- Taxa of Unknown Position in the Preventing Harm in Healthcare Groups: Research biodiversity indicators.- 2. Essential features of Non-dorsomarginalian Hypotricha (14 species).- Examples from Anesthesia and an Integrated forest biodiversity for assessment purposes.- Supplement to Apourosomoida (5 species).- Model of Coordination for Action Teams in Health 3. Prospects for harmonized biodiversity assess- References.- Systematic Index.- Table Index. Care.- Developing Observational Categories for ments using national forest inventory data.- 4. The Group Process Research Based on Task and Coor- common NFI database.- 5. Harmonization tests.- Fields of interest dination Requirement Analysis: Examples from 6. Summary and conclusions. Index. Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Research on Medical Emergency-Driven Teams. Biodiversity; Developmental Biology Fields of interest Fields of interest Forestry; Biodiversity; Monitoring/Environmental Target groups Behavioural Sciences; Developmental Psychology; Analysis Research Evolutionary Biology Target groups Discount group Target groups Research P Research Discount group Discount group P P
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R. P. Cincotta, The Stimson Center, Washington, DC, I. S. Cohen, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA; G. R. Gaudette, G. S. Cumming, University of Cape Town, South Africa USA; L. J. Gorenflo, Pennsylvania State University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA (Eds.) University Park, PA, USA (Eds.) Spatial Resilience in Regenerating the Heart Social-Ecological Systems Human Population Stem Cells and the Cardiovascular System Its Influences on Biological Diversity Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of Medical research made huge strides in treating interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influ- In this volume the dynamic patterns of human heart disease in the 20th century, from drug- ence of spatial variation – including such things density and distribution are examined in relation eluding stents to automatic internal defibrillators. as spatial location, context, connectivity, and to the viability of native species and the integrity Public awareness of the dangers of heart disease dispersal – on the resilience of complex systems, of their habitats. Social, biological, and earth scien- has never been more pervasive. Now, though, ten and on the roles that resilience and self-organi- tists describe their models, outline their conclu- years into a new millennium, scientists are gearing zation play in generating spatial variation. Prof. sions from field studies, and review the contribu- up for the next great challenges in tackling this Cumming provides a readable introduction and tions of other scientists whose work is essential pervasive condition. Cell therapy is going to be a a first comprehensive synthesis covering the core to this field. The book starts with general theories key weapon in the fight against heart disease. It concepts and applications of spatial resilience to and broad empirical relationships that help explain has the potential to address many cardiovascular the study of social-ecological systems. The book dramatic changes in the patterns of the occur- conditions. From heart failure to atrioventricular follows a trajectory from concepts through models, rence of species, changes that have developed in nodal dysfunction, the young but promising field methods, and case study analysis before revisiting parallel with human population growth, migration of cell therapy is set to play a significant role in the central problems in the further conceptual and settlement. In the following chapters specific developing the cures that the upcoming decades of development of the field. In the process, the author biomes and ecosystems are highlighted as the hard work will yield. ranges from the movements of lions in northern context for human interactions with other species. Zimbabwe to the urban jungles of Europe, and A discussion of the key themes and findings Features from the collapse of past societies to the social covered rounds out the volume. 7 Is inclusive of all stem cell types used for impacts of modern conflict. cardiac regeneration, including iPS cells 7 Covers Features regeneration from basic science through clinical Features 7 Highlights the impact of men on biodiver- trials 7 Methods for evaluation of the effective- 7 First complete synthesis of ideas relating to sity 7 Written by leaders in the field 7 Richly ness of cell therapy in the heart are also presented spatial resilience 7 Both defines and extends illustrated here analysis of spatial influences on sustainability 7 Fully interdisciplinary, with examples from From the contents From the contents ecology, sociology, and economics 7 Highlights An Introduction: Human Population’s Influences 1. Introduction, Glenn R. Gaudette & Ira S. key areas for future research as well as recent on Biological Diversity.- Mapping the Population Cohen.- Section 1: Stem Cells for Regeneration advances in the analysis of spatial resilience Future: Projecting a Gridded Population of the of Mechanical Function. – 2. Inducing embryonic World Using Ratio Methods of Trend Extrapola- stem cells to become cardiac myocytes, Alexander From the contents tion.- Physical Environment and the Spatial Distri- M. Becker, Michael Rubart and Loren J. Field.- Foreword.- 1 Introducing Spatial Resilience.- bution of Human Population.- Behavioral Media- 3. Regenerating function in vivo with myocytes 2 Conceptual background on social-ecological tors of the Human Population Effect on Global derived from embryonic stem cells, Priya R. Bara- systems and resilience.- 3 A theoretical framework Biodiversity Losses.- The Biological Diversity that niak and Todd C. McDevitt.- 4. Excitation-contrac- for the analysis of spatial resilience.- 4 Introduc- is Humanly Possible: Three Models Relevant to tion coupling, functional properties, autonomic tion to the use of mechanistic models in studying Human Population’s Relationship with Native .- and hormonal regulation in human embryonic spatial aspects of social-ecological systems.- Biodiversity on the Urban Landscape.- Indicators stem cells-derived cardiomyocytes, Oshra Sedan 5 Spatial models in ecology and spatial resilience.- for Assessing Threats to Freshwater Biodiversity and Ofer Binah.- 5. Embryonic stem cell deriva- 6 Spatial Resilience in networks.- 7 Spatial resil- from Humans and Human-shaped Landscapes.- tives for cardiac therapy: advantages, limitations ience and landscape analysis.- 8 Spatial resilience, A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Human Impacts on and long term prospects, Michal Weiler-Sagie and landscape experiments, and fragmentation.- the Rainforest Environment in Ecuador: Prelimi- Lior Gepstein. 9 Spatial Resilience and fragmentation in social nary Results from the Ethnographic Study. systems.- 10 Analyzing spatial resilience in case Fields of interest studies of social-ecological systems. Fields of interest Stem Cells; Cardiology; Cell Biology Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Landscape Ecology Fields of interest Target groups Ecology; Sociology; Sustainable Development Target groups Professional/practitioner Research Target groups Discount group Graduate Discount group P P Discount group P
Due March 2011 Due March 2011 Due March 2011 2011. 570 p. 91 illus., 48 in color. (Stem Cell Biology and 2011. 300 p. (Ecological Studies, Volume 214) Hardcover Regenerative Medicine) Hardcover 2011. VIII, 300 p. 25 illus. in color. Hardcover 7 approx. $129.00 7 $239.00 7 $179.00 ISBN 978-3-642-16706-5 ISBN 978-1-61779-020-1 ISBN 978-94-007-0306-3 58 Life Sciences Springer News 12/2010 springer.com/librarybooks
C. Davidovich, The Weizmann Institute of Science, E. N. Eadie, Glenelg North, SA, Australia R. M. Flügel, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany Rehovot, Israel Education for Animal Welfare Chirality and Life Targeting Functional Centers A Short Introduction to the Early Phases of This book deals with the role of education in of the Ribosome improving animal welfare and reducing animal Chemical Evolution suffering inflicted by humans. It embraces situa- This thesis describes research into the mode of tions in which humans have direct control over This book presents the fascinating formation of the function, inhibition, and evolution of the ribo- animals orinterfere directly with them, but it first simple bioorganic molecules and describes somal catalytic center, the Peptidyl Transferase considers also indirect animal suffering resulting the hidden aspects of chiral compounds, which Center (PTC)--research that has already led to from human activities. Education is regarded in raise questions on the molecular beginnings of life. attempts at improving PTC antibiotics. The PhD the broad sense of creating awareness and facili- The occurrences of extraterrestrial, non-standard candidate carried out two parallel studies. One tating change. First, consideration is given to a amino acids in meteorites are dealt with in detail, using a combination of X-ray crystallography, number of specific themes in which education can as well as their subsequent transfer to proteino- biochemistry, molecular biology, and theoretical make an important contribution towards reducing genic amino acids. The concept of asymmetric studies to obtain crystal structures of ribosomal animal suffering, and subsequently an examination organo-catalysis for the synthesis of carbohydrates particles with antibiotics that target the PTC, is made of a number of interrelated contexts in and ribonucleosides are considered. The notion of revealing the modes of action, resistance, cross- which education can address the various themes. a single amino acid that functions as an enzyme resistance and discrimination between ribosomes is developed. Attempts to simulate ancient world of eubacterial pathogens and eukaryotic hosts. In Features scenarios are critically reviewed. There is a special the second parallel study, the candidate synthe- 7 State-of-the-art contents 7 Comprehensive in focus on ribozymes and the resulting RNA world. sized a ribosomal substructure--one that may scope 7 Focuses on selected topics Combinations of different world scenarios are represent the minimal entity capable of catalyzing discussed in view of an on-going evolution. The peptide bond formation--shedding light on the Contents currently most plausible hypotheses and visions origin of the ribosome itself. Introduction.- Educational Themes Related to of ancient world scenarios that led to today’s DNA Reduction in Animal Suffering.- Educational world are also provided. Included is a pre-cellular Features Contexts Involved in Reduction in Animal world of viruses that is presented for the first time. 7 Nominated by the Weizmann Institute, Israel Suffering.- References. for a Springer Theses Prize 7 This research has Features already led to attempts to improve PTC antibiotics Fields of interest 7 Hot topic 7 Written by an expert in the field 7 Based on these findings further research into Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management; Animal 7 With numerous illustrations designing a functional construct mimicking a Ecology; Zoology functional proto-ribosome has been initiated Contents Target groups Part I. Physico-chemical Principles.- 1. Introduc- Contents Research tion.- 2. Formation of Primordial Bioorganic Introduction.- Methods.- Results.- Discussion. Molecules.- 3. Hidden Aspects of Chirality.- Discount group 4. RNAs and Their Constituents.- 5. Proteins Fields of interest P and Their Constituents.- 6. Membranes.- Nucleic Acid Chemistry; Protein Science; Organic 7. Compounds Required for Life Part II. Scenarios Chemistry of Ancient Worlds.- 8. The RNA World Involves RNA as a First Genetic System.- 9. Peptide and Target groups Protein World.- 10. Combinations of the RNA with Research the Peptide World.- 11. The Precellular World of Viruses.- 12. Combinations of Different Worlds.- Discount group 13. The Iron Sulfide World of Proto-Metabolism.- P 14. The Genetic Code.
Field of interest Biochemistry, general
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S. Hong, Mokpo National University, Korea; J. Wu, K. Horikoshi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science Y. Isagi, Kyoto University, Japan; Y. Suyama, Tohoku Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; J. Kim, and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan; G. Antranikian, University, Miyagi, Japan (Eds.) Mokpo National University, Korea; N. Nakagoshi, Hamburg University of Technology, Geramany; Hiroshima University, Japan (Eds.) A. T. Bull, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK; Single-Pollen Genotyping F. Robb, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; Landscape Ecology in Asian K. O. Stetter, University of Regensburg, Germany Pollination is one of the most important processes (Eds.) in plant reproduction. It directly influences repro- Cultures ductive success and fitness and the genetic struc- Extremophiles Handbook ture of the plant population. Methods exist to infer Cultural landscapes are a product of the interac- the pattern and distance of pollen dispersal, but tions between humans and natural settings. They The Extremophiles Handbook brings together the direct observation of the movements of individual are landscapes and seascapes that are shaped rapidly growing and often scattered information pollen grains during pollination is not feasible by human history and land use. Socioeconomic on microbial life in the whole range of extreme owing to their small size. Single-pollen genotyping processes especially, but also environmental environments. This book will be a useful refer- is a novel technique for genotyping a single pollen changes and natural disturbances, are some of ence for finding clues to the origin of life and for grain. In this book, the principles, the experimental the forces that make up landscape dynamics. To exploring the biotechnology potential of these protocol, and several applications of this method understand and manage such complex landscapes, fascinating organisms. in studies of plant ecology, reproductive biology, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches and evolutionary genetics have been described. are necessary, emphasizing the integration of Features More specifically, the information is useful for the natural and social sciences and considering 7 Presents a comprehensive overview on analysis of linkage disequilibrium, intraspecific multiple landscape functions. The spatial patterns extremophiles research 7 Covers microbial life in genetic variation, chromosome mapping, and the of Asian landscapes are strongly related to human the whole range of extreme environments origins of polyploidy. activities and their impacts. Anthropogenic 7 Written by leading experts in the field patterns and processes have created numerous Features traditional cultural landscapes throughout the Fields of interest 7 Offers an introduction to a unique and novel region, and understanding them requires indig- Microbiology; Applied Microbiology; Biochem- method for detailed analysis of the reproductive enous knowledge. Cultural landscape ecology from istry, general process in plants 7 Provides detailed descrip- a uniquely Asian perspective is explored in this tion of the principle and method of single-pollen book, as are the management of landscapes and Target groups genotyping 7 Presents interesting applications of land-use policies. Research the method in ecological studies on plants
Features Discount group From the contents 7 Conservation of ecological/cultural diversity P 1 Signifi cance of Single-Pollen Genotyping in in Asia 7 Management of complex landscapes— Ecological Research.- 2 Procedure for Single- transdisciplinary approach 7 A uniquely Asian Pollen Genotyping.- 3 Pollination Effi ciencies of perspective on cultural landscape ecology Insects Visiting Magnolia obovata, as Determined by Single-Pollen Genotyping.- 4 Difference in Fields of interest Pollen Donor Composition During the Early Landscape Ecology; Environmental Management; Phases of Reproduction as Revealed by DNA Anal- Human Geography ysis of Pollen Grains and Seeds in the Monoecious Tree Castanea crenata.- 5 Expanded Home Range Target groups of Pollinator Birds Facilitates Greater Pollen Flow Research of Camellia japonica in a Forest Heavily Damaged by Volcanic Activity.- 6 Can Tiny Thrips Provide Discount group Suffi cient Pollination Service During a General P Flowering Period in Tropical Rainforest?
Fields of interest Plant Ecology; Plant Sciences; Evolutionary Biology
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2011. XX, 1200 p. 240 illus., 106 in color. Discount group (In 2 volumes, not available separately) Hardcover P 7 $549.00 ISBN 978-4-431-53897-4
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J. Jones, SCRI, Dundee, UK; G. Gheysen, Ghent A. E. Kalyuzhny, R&D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, A. Kamkin, I. Kiseleva, Russian State Medical University, Belgium; C. Fenoll, Universidad de USA (Ed.) University, Moscow, Russia (Eds.) Castilla-la Mancha, Toledo, Spain (Eds.) Signal Transduction Mechanosensitivity and Genomics and Molecular Immunohistochemistry Mechanotransduction Genetics of Plant-Nematode Methods and Protocols Interactions This book presents the latest findings in the field of Unlike detecting constitutively expressed targets, research of mechanosensitivity and mechanotrans- This book reviews developments in the molecular immunohistochemical detection of labile, low duction in different cells and tissues. Mecha- biology of plant-nematode interactions that abundance, and short-lived signal transduction nosensitivity and mechanotransduction of the have been driven by the application of genomics molecules can be a very difficult task. In Signal heart and vascular cells, in the lung, in bone and tools. The book will be of interest to postgraduate Transduction Immunohistochemistry: Methods joint tissues, in sensor systems and in blood cells students and to researchers with an interest in and Protocols, IHC experts contribute detailed are described in detail. This Volume focuses on plant nematology and/or plant pathology more protocols addressing the numerous challenges molecular mechanisms of mechanosensitivity and generally. A series of introductory chapters provide of signal-transduction immunohistochemistry mechanotransduction via cytoskeleton. Integrin- a biological context for the detailed reviews of all (ST-IHC). Beginning with a set of introductory mediated mechanotransduction, the role of actin areas of plant-nematode interactions that follow chapters, the volume moves on to cover tech- cytoskeleton and the role of other cytoskeletal and ensure that the bulk of the book is accessible niques used for the preservation of antigens and elements are discussed. It contains a detailed to the non-specialist. A final section aims to show their unmasking, protocols in digital imaging and description of several stretch-induced signaling how these fundamental studies have provided image analysis of stained cells and tissues, high- cascades with multiple levels of crosstalk between outputs of practical relevance. throughput data collection and data analysis, and different pathways. techniques used in neuroscience as well as cancer Features and stem cell research. Features 7 Detailed reviews of many different areas of 7 One book provides a detailed description of plant-nematode interactions by leading experts Features molecular mechanisms of mechanosensing and in the fields 7 Coverage of how a wide range of 7 Presents detailed, thorough protocols exam- mechanotransduction in different cells 7 One genomics approaches have been applied to plant ining this burgeoning field of study 7 Features book brings together a comprehensive outline of nematology 7 Links to other areas of plant techniques easily adaptable to numerous research modern vision of structure and functions of cyto- pathology 7 Introductory articles make the book tasks 7 Contains expert notes and vital imple- skeleton 7 Gives a wide and detailed coverage accessible to students and other new workers in mentation advice of mechanosensitive ion channels 7 Provides a this area wide and detailed description of various signaling From the contents pathways Fields of interest Overview of the Generation, Validation, and Plant Pathology; Plant Sciences; Agriculture Application of Phosphosite-Specific Antibodies.- Fields of interest Selection and Validation of Antibodies for Signal Cell Biology; Medical Biochemistry; Human Target groups Transduction Immunohistochemistry.- An Physiology Research Overview of Western Blotting for Determining Antibody Specificities for Immunohistochemistry.- Target groups Discount group Optimized Protocol to Make Phospho-Specific Research P Antibodies that Work.- Methodology and Tech- nology for Stabilization of Specific States of Signal Discount group Transduction Proteins.- An Enhanced Antigen P Retrieval Protocol for Immunohistochemical Staining of Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissues.- Imaging Techniques in Signal Transduc- tion IHC.
Fields of interest Biochemistry, general; Antibodies
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P. Kotrba, M. Mackova, T. Macek, Institute of E. Lichtfouse, M. Hamelin, M. Navarrete, A. E. Pegg, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic (Eds.) P. Debaeke, French National Institute for Agricultural PA, USA; R. A. Casero, Jr., The Johns Hopkins Research, Paris, France (Eds.) University, Baltimore, MD, USA (Eds.) Microbial Biosorption of Metals Sustainable Agriculture Polyamines Volume 2 Methods and Protocols Heavy metals always pose serious ecological risks when released into the environment due to their This book gathers review articles that analyze Recently, important new findings in the polyamine elemental non-degradable nature, regardless of current agricultural issues and knowledge, then field and a variety of new experimental systems their chemical form. This calls for the development propose alternative solutions. It will therefore have revolutionized the study of these ubiquitous of efficient and low-cost effluent treatment and help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, cellular components, essential for normal growth metal recuperation technologies for contaminated farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe and development. In Polyamines: Methods and waste water, not only because regulatory limits agriculture, energy and food system for future Protocols, leading researchers contribute an exten- need to be met but also because the waste itself can generations. sive collection of up-to-date laboratory techniques be a resource for certain precious metals. Biosorp- for the further pursuit of polyamine study. The tion is a general property of living and dead Features volume delves into vital subjects such as neoplasia biomass to rapidly bind and abiotically concentrate 7 Presents controversial and new concepts to shift studies with animal models and human patients, inorganic or organic compounds from even very world agriculture from industrial to sustainable therapeutic roles for polyamine inhibitors and diluted aqueous solutions. As a specific term, 7 Reviews biofuels and C sequestration tech- analogs, polyamine metabolism and oxidative biosorption is a method that utilizes materials niques that offset climate change 7 Discloses the damage, polyamines as regulators of critical ion of biological origin – biosorbents formulated fast emergence of social and economical sciences channels, as well as polyamine transport systems from non-living biomass - for the removal of to develop unprecedented participatory research and polyamine-responsive genes. target substances from aqueous solutions. Recent with farmers 7 Presents alternative soil manage- research on biosorption provides a solid under- ment techniques to improve food and water Features standing of the mechanism underlying microbial security 7 Uses biodiversity instead of chemicals 7 Contains comprehensive and extensive prac- biosorption of heavy metals and related elements. to control pests tical coverage of polyamine-related methodolo- gies in a wide variety of subject areas 7 Features Features Contents step-by-step protocols, clearly written and readily 7 Emphasis on current knowledge on microbial Section 1 - Novel Concepts.- Section 2 - Food reproducible 7 Includes expert tips and key biosorption of metals and related elements Security.- Section 3 - Sociology and Economics.- implementation advice to ensure methodological 7 Covers the biosorption mechanism and Section 4 - Climate Change.- Section 5 - Alterna- success kinetics, biosorbent engineering and biosorption tive Pest Control.- Section 6 - Soil Health.- Section process modeling, including a description of suit- 7 - Alternative Fertilisation. Fields of interest able methods and tools 7 Compares properties of Cell Biology; Laboratory Medicine various biomass types and methods for biosorbent Fields of interest formulation and improvements Agriculture; Soil Science & Conservation; Sustain- Target groups able Development Professional/practitioner From the contents Preface.- 1. Microbial Biosorption of Metals – Target groups Discount group General Introduction.- 2. Potential of Biosorption Graduate P Technology.- 3. The Mechanism of Metal Cation and Anion Biosorption.- 4. Equilibrium, Kinetic Discount group and Dynamic Modelling of Biosorption Processes.- P 5. Bacterial Biosorption and Biosorbents.- 6. Fungal Biosorption and Biosorbents.- 7. Algal Biosorption and Biosorbents.
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Z. A. Popper, National University of Ireland, Galway, W. Ravensberg, Koppert Biological Systems, Ireland (Ed.) Zoetermeer, Netherlands The Plant Cell Wall A Roadmap to the Successful Methods and Protocols Development and Commercialization of The cell wall and its constituent polysaccharides Microbial Pest Control and proteins control nearly all plant-based biolog- ical and biophysical processes. Understanding the Products for Control of cell wall is, therefore, not only fundamental to the Arthropods plant sciences but is also pertinent to aspects of human and animal nutrition and health as well Biocontrol is among the most promising methods as plant-microbe and plant-animal interactions. for a safe, environmentally benign and sustain- In The Plant Cell Wall: Methods and Protocols, able pest control. Microbial pesticides offer a experts in the field describe detailed methods great potential, and it is anticipated that they will which are currently being applied to investigate become a substantial part of the use of all crop the many aspects of the plant cell wall including protection products. Their development and its structure, biochemical composition, and commercialization, however, has been difficult metabolism. and with many failures. In this book a rational and structured roadmap has been designed for the Features development and commercialization of microbial 7 Features many recently developed methods, pest control products for the control of arthopod becoming more widely used with the development pests. The building blocks of the entire process of advanced instrumentation and technology are identified and essential aspects highlighted. 7 Contains detailed protocols to study plant Biopesticides based on entomopathogenic bacteria, cell wall structure, biochemical composition, and fungi, viruses and nematodes are elaborately metabolism, to name a few areas 7 Includes discussed. This systematic roadmap with a strong expert tips and vital implementation advice focus on economics and market introduction will assist academic researchers and industrial From the contents developers of biopesticides in accomplishing their Plant Tissue Cultures.- Computerized Molecular goal: the development of successful cost-effective Modelling of Carbohydrates.- Oligosaccharide microbial pesticides. Mass Profiling (OLIMP) of Cell Wall Polysac- charides by MALDI-TOF/MS.- High-Voltage Features Paper Electrophoresis (HVPE) of Cell-Wall 7 First complete process description for the Building Blocks and Their Metabolic Precursors.- development of a microbial pesticide 7 Empha- Carbohydrate Gel Electrophoresis.- Capillary sizes product development from strain screening, Electrophoresis with Detection by Laser-Induced product development, up to successful commer- Fluorescence.- Monoclonal antibodies, Carbo- cialization, from a bio-industry’s viewpoint hydrate-Binding Modules, and the Detection of 7 Provides a new system of rating the essential Polysaccharides in Plant Cell Walls.- Screening elements of biopesticides, as a tool to estimate and Characterization of Plant Cell Walls Using the probability of a technical, commercial and Carbohydrate Microarrays.- Electron Tomography financial success and Immunogold Labelling as Tools to Analyze de novo Assembly of Plant Cell Walls.- Analyzing Fields of interest Cellulose Biosynthesis with Confocal Microscopy. Agriculture; Microbiology; Entomology
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P. Bogetoft, Copenhagen Business School, H. Dawid, University of Bielefeld, Germany; L. De Benedictis, University of Macerata, Italy; Frederiksberg, Denmark; L. Otto, University of W. Semmler, New School for Social Research, L. Salvatici, University of Molise, Italy (Eds.) Copenhagen, Denmark New York, NJ, USA (Eds.) The Trade Impact of European Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, Computational Methods in Union Preferential Policies and R Economic Dynamics An Analysis Through Gravity Models
This book covers recent advances in efficiency This volume is centered around the issue of The book investigates the EU preferential trade evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment market design and resulting market dynamics. policy and, in particular, the impact it had on trade Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis The economic crisis of 2007-2009 has once again flows from developing countries. It shows that the (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying highlighted the importance of a proper design capability of the “trade as aid” model to deliver theories, shows how to make the relevant calcula- of market protocols and institutional details for its expected benefits to these countries crucially tions and discusses applications. The aim is to economic dynamics and macroeconomics. Papers differs between preferential schemes and sectors. make the reader aware of the pros and cons of the in this volume capture institutional details of The book takes an eclectic but rigorous approach different methods and to show how to use these particular markets, behavioral details of agents’ to the econometric analysis by combining different methods in both standard and non-standard cases. decision making as well as spillovers between specifications of the gravity model. An in-depth Several software packages have been developed markets and effects to the macroeconomy. presentation of the gravity model is also included, to solve some of the most common DEA and SFA Computational methods are used to replicate and providing significant insights into the distinc- models. This book relies on R, a free, open source understand market dynamics emerging from inter- tive features of this technique and its state-of-art software environment for statistical computing and action of heterogeneous agents, and to develop implementation. The evidence produced in the graphics. This enables the reader to solve not only models that have predictive power for complex book is extensively applied to the analysis of the standard problems, but also many other problem market dynamics. Finally treatments of overlap- EU preferential policies with substantial sugges- variants. Using R, one can focus on understanding ping generations models and differential games tions for future improvement. Additional material the context and developing a good model. One is with heterogeneous actors are provided. can be found on the Website to this book. not restricted to predefined model variants and to a one-size-fits-all approach. Features Features 7 Offers new approaches and results on compu- 7 A comprehensive assessment of the trade Features tational methods in economics 7 Covers agent- impact of EU preferential policies 7 Empirical 7 Editors are the three of most prominent based models, computational learning techniques analysis with modern econometric techniques and researchers in the field 7 Prestigious group of and dynamic games 7 Presents applications such disaggregated data 7 Datasets and program files contributors 7 Brings entire field up to date with as the design of electricity markets, trading on help the reader to replicate the empirical analysis new chapters on DEA models for supply chain, financial markets, human capital, and migration DMU’s with internal structures, and network DEA Contents From the contents Introduction.- EU Preferential Policies and Contents Editorial.- Market Dynamics With Heterogeneous Gravity Model: Evolution of the EU Preferential 1. Introduction to Benchmarking.- 2. Efficiency Agents: Allocative Efficiency and Traders’ Protec- Trade Policies.- EU Preferential Margins.- Gravity Measures.- 3. Production Models and Technology.- tion Under Zero Intelligence Behavior.- Using Model.- Trade Impact of EU Preferential Poli- 4. Data Envelopment Analysis DEA.- 5. Additional Software Agents to Supplement Tests Conducted cies.- Empirical Analysis: Trade Impact of EU Topics in DEA.- 6. Statistical Analysis in DEA.- 7. by Human Subjects.- Diversification Effect of Preferences.- Agricultural Trade Impact of EU Stochastic Frontier Analysis SFA.- 8. Additional Heterogeneous Beliefs.- Can Investors Benefit Generalized System of Preferendes.- Trade Impact Topics in SFA.- 9. Merger Analysis.- 10. Regulation from Using Trading Rules Evolved by Genetic of Everything But Arms.- Trade Impact of EU and Contracting.- Appendix. Getting Started with Programming? A Test of the Adaptive Efficiency of Preferences: An Analysis With Monthly Data.- R: A Quick Introduction. U.S. Stock Markets With Margin Trading Allowed.- Impact of Preference Erosion in the EU Rice Bankruptcy Prediction: A Comparison of Some Sector.- Trade Impact of EU Preferences: The Role Fields of interest Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques. of Compliance Costs. Operations Research/Decision Theory; Economet- rics; Operations Research, Management Science Fields of interest Fields of interest Economic Theory; Computer Appl. in Social and Development Economics; International Target groups Behavioral Sciences; Game Theory/Mathematical Economics; Regional/Spatial Science Professional/practitioner Methods Target groups Discount group Target groups Research P Research Discount group Discount group P P
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B. Frick, Universität Paderborn, Germany N. K. Hanna, University of Maryland, Bethesda, MD, E. Hofmann, Universität St. Gallen, Schweiz; O. Belin, USA SCC Swiss Commercial Capital, Zürich, Schweiz Conquering the Pitch The Economics of Soccer Enabling Enterprise Supply Chain Finance Transformation Solutions Soccer has become “big business.” The aggregated Business and Grassroots Innovation for the Relevance - Propositions - Market Value market value of the first and second division teams Knowledge Economy from the “Big 5” European Leagues (England, The book “Supply Chain Finance Solutions” offers France, Germany, Italy and Spain) is nearly €12 Private enterprises in advanced economies have orientation in the new discipline of Supply Chain billion. Using systematic and anecdotal evidence been learning to use information and communica- Finance (SCF) by investigating the need for and from the “Big 5” and additional evidence from tion technology (ICT) to innovate and transform nature of SCF, along with its characteristics and other European and some of the South American their processes, products, services and business enablers. Due to the novelty of the Supply Chain Leagues (Brazil and Argentina), this book explores models, significantly improving productivity and Finance approach, there are still many knowledge the development of soccer as the world’s most competitiveness. Moreover, the ICT industry gaps. This lack of research leads to uncertainties important team sport and addresses competitive itself has become a major source of job creation about the successful implementation of SCF solu- balance across the a large number of leagues. The and a contributor to economic growth and busi- tions within companies as there is little quanti- book also provides the reader with a thorough ness transformation. A key question today is fied evidence on the achievable cost savings and understanding of the market for players, coaches whether and how developing countries can learn other potential benefits. The authors close this gap and referees as well as the demand for soccer, both to benefit from the ICT revolution, and what by providing the latest information on business on TV, at the gate, and in the betting office. Finally, roles the government and private sector can play. concepts and the SCF market. Based on a sample the economic implications of pertinent recent Already, a number of developing countries have SCF model, the worldwide market size for such problems, such as hooliganism and racism, are been inspired by the example of India and China, solutions and potential cost savings to companies addressed. and are now seeking to jump on the outsourcing engaged in SCF are analyzed. The work under- bandwagon. lines the generally agreed-upon attractiveness Features and future relevance of SCF solutions by creating 7 First book to deal with the supply and demand Features win-win situations; for all actors in the end-to- side of the market for soccer from a multinational 7 Integrates analytical insights, practical applica- end supply chain as well as for external service perspective 7 Uses evidence from the "Big 5" tion, and policymaking across the fields of devel- providers. European Leagues (England, France, Germany, opment economics, management, and information Italy and Spain) and some of the South American and communication technology 7 Demonstrates Features Leagues (Brazil and Argentina) 7 Econometric how ICT can be implemented to support organiza- 7 Latest research development and market data evidence is presented in a graphical form to make tional innovation and economic development on supply chain finance solutions 7 Calculation the book more accessible to multiple audiences 7 International coverage, with numerous illustra- of global market size on supply chain finance solu- tive examples from around the world tions 7 Calculation of profitability analysis for Contents market participants on supply chain finance solu- The Evolution of Professional Soccer in Europe.- From the contents tions 7 Information on market situation taking The Market for Players, Coaches and Referees.- 1. An ICT-enabled Innovation and Business into account latest development of financial crisis The Demand for Football and the Sources of Club Transformation for Development.- 2. Implica- Revenues.- The Capital and the Betting Market.- tions of the ICT Revolution for Business.- 3. Fields of interest Current Problems and Future Prospects. Strategic Options for Private Sector Develop- Financial Economics; Production/Logistics; ment.- 4. Transforming Enterprises: Innovation, Finance /Banking Fields of interest Networking and Diffusion.- 5. Transforming Busi- Economic Policy; Management/Business for ness Environment.- 6. ICT Services Industry for Target groups Professionals; Economics general an Innovation Economy.- 7. Developing the ICT Professional/practitioner Industry Ecosystem.- 8. Telecenter Enterprises and Target groups Grassroots Innovation. Discount group Research P Fields of interest Discount group Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Organiza- P tion/Planning
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M. Hülsmann, N. Pfeffermann, Jacobs University, T. Kronenberg, W. Kuckshinrichs, Forschungszentrum L. Pellegrini, International Institute of Social Studies Bremen, Germany (Eds.) Jülich, IEF-STE, Jülich, Germany (Eds.) (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands Strategies and Demography and Corruption, Development and Communications for Infrastructure the Environment Innovations National and Regional Aspects of An Integrative Management View for Demographic Change The book analyses the influence of corruption on Companies and Networks economic growth and environmental protection, Population ageing has been going on for many examining corruption from different perspectives. decades, but population shrinking is a rather new It contributes to several streams of the literature The innovation economy sets new standards for phenomenon. The population of Germany, as in and assembles evidence of the influence of corrup- global business and requires efficient innovation many other countries, has passed a plateau and tion on two important variables in human welfare: management to plan, execute and evaluate innova- is currently shrinking. Demographic change is a income and environmental policies. The material tion activities, establish innovative capability and challenge for infrastructure planning due to the evinces the detrimental effect that corruption has coordinate resources and capacities for innova- longevity of infrastructure capital and the need on economic growth and on the stringency of tion on an intra- and inter-organizational level. to match supply and demand in order to ensure environmental policies. It also shows that standard Moreover, communication of innovation is one cost-efficiency. This book summarises the findings techniques for fighting corruption are often essential impact factor of innovation success due of the INFRADEM project team, a multidisci- based either on simplistic definitions or on strong to successful launches of innovations into markets, plinary research group that worked together to assumptions that do not apply in many countries establishment of stakeholder relationships, and estimate the effects of demographic change on blighted by corruption. From a methodological strengthened corporate reputation in the long-run. infrastructure demand. Economists, engineers and standpoint, this work combines a number of Consequently, the portfolio of communication geographers present studies from top-down and approaches including a theoretical discussion of activities for innovations has to be mastered by bottom-up perspectives, focusing on Germany and corruption and of its definition (often omitted in a company or collaborative network equal to two selected regions: Hamburg and Mecklenburg- economic studies), together with econometrics, the innovation portfolio. Thus, management of Western Pomerania. The contributors employed a case studies and policy discussions. innovation and innovation communication on a broad range of methods, including an overlapping- strategic level play an important role in busi- generations model for Germany, regional input- Features ness nowadays. This new book concentrates on output models, an energy systems model, and a 7 Multi-method study that includes theoretical new approaches and methods for strategies and spatial model of the transportation infrastructure. examination together with econometrics and case communications for innovations. studies 7 Examines the determinants of corrup- Features tion together with the impact corruption has on Features 7 Highly relevant research topic: the impact of economic development and on the stringency 7 Cutting edge information, new approaches and demographic change on infrastructure use of environmental policies 7 The first study to methods for companies and networks 7 Theory- 7 Interdisciplinary content covers all aspects of combine an analysis of corruption, economic driven yet practice-oriented with case studies the research topic 7 Wide range of approaches development and environmental policies 7 An integrative management view on innovations used, including top-down, bottom-up, national, and regional 7 Includes the development and From the contents Contents application of methodological innovations 1. Introduction.- 2. Economic Analysis of Corrup- Introduction.- Part I-Strategic Perspectives on tion.- 3. Causes of Corruption: A Curvey of Cross- Innovation.- Part II-Communicative Perspectives Fields of interest Country Analyses and Extended Results.- 4. The on Innovation.- Part III-Integrated Perspectives on Environmental Economics; Economic Geography; Effect of Corruption On Growth and Its Transmis- Innovation.- Part IV-Best Practices. Demography sion Channels.- 5. Corruption, Democracy and Environmental Policy: An Empirical Contribution Fields of interest Target groups To The Debate.- 6. Corruption and Environmental Technology Management; Engineering Economics, Research Policies: What Are the Implications For the Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Industrial Enlarged EU? Organization Discount group P Fields of interest Target groups Environmental Economics; Development Research Economics; Economic Policy
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I. Piot-Lepetit, R. M'Barek, European Commission, J. Sengupta, University of California, Santa Barbara, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective CA, USA Technological Studies, Seville, Spain (Eds.) Understanding Economic Methods to Analyse Growth Agricultural Commodity Price Modern Theory and Experience Volatility Modern economies have undergone a dramatic This book examines the issue of price volatility change. There has been a shift from large scale in agricultural commodities markets and how material manufacturing to the design and applica- this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. tion of new technology with R&D and human The factors underlying the price spike of 2007-08 capital. The new information age has introduced appear to be global and macroeconomic in significant productivity gains through increasing nature, including the rapid growth in demand by returns and learning by doing, which has chal- developing countries, the international financial lenged the traditional growth models based on crisis, and exchange rate movements. Some of competitive market structures. Institutions outside these factors are new, appearing as influences on the traditional markets and the genetic principle of price volatility only in the last decade. Although survival of the fittest have dominated the current volatility has always been a feature of agricultural theory of industry growth. This book coordinates commodity markets, the evidence suggests that and integrates the two strands of economic growth volatility has increased in certain commodity and development: the endogenous theory of markets. A growing problem is that agricultural growth and the extra-market models of evolu- price shocks and volatility disrupt agricultural tionary economics dominated by innovation markets, economic incentives and incomes. With efficiency. It presents this new paradigm in terms increased globalization and integration of financial of both theory and historical experiences. and energy markets with agricultural commodity markets, the relationships between markets are Features expanding and becoming more complex. 7 Integrates the micro theory of industry growth with macro theory 7 Emphasizes the impact of Features the recent upsurge of information technology and 7 Features chapters written by experts from the role of non-market institutions 7 Analyzes the European Commission, FAO, USDA, and the the growth of international markets and high- World Bank as well as scholars from the Euro- tech industries, especially in Asia, with reference pean Union and the United States 7 Provides to knowledge creation and diffusion timely analysis of agricultural commodities price volatility and evolution resulting from the Contents recent economic crisis 7 Suggests directions for Development.- The Market.- Investment.- Innova- anticipating price movements and managing their tion.- Diffusion.- Asian Miracles.- Evolutionary consequences Economics.- Growth.- Growth Policy.
Fields of interest Fields of interest Agricultural Economics; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Economic Theory; Political Economic Policy Science
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K. G. Kempf, Intel Corporation, AZ, USA; R. Michaeli, Butzbach, Germany P. Keskinocak, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA; R. Uzsoy, North Carolina State University, Competitive Intelligence Raleigh, NC, USA (Eds.) Competitive Advantage through Analysis of Planning Production and Competition, Markets and Technologies
Inventories in the Extended In the modern world of business management, Enterprise the aim of Competitive Intelligence (CI) is to gain A State-of-the-Art Handbook, Volume 2 competitive advantage through the investigation and analysis of market and competitive informa- tion. This book offers a fundamental and practical In two volumes, Planning Production and Invento- introduction to the conceptions, techniques and ries in the Extended Enterprise: A State of the Art practice of CI. A number of case studies on inter- Handbook examines production planning across national companies highlight the different aspects the extended enterprise against a backdrop of of CI in practice. The book looks at methods of important gaps between theory and practice. The resolution, ideas and techniques including how to early chapters describe the multifaceted nature of carry out research effectively, manage information production planning problems and reveal many overload and use analysis tools intelligently. The of the core complexities. The middle chapters CI implementation process is also a key theme describe recent research on theoretical techniques within the book. Strategic competitive analysis is to manage these complexities. Accounts of produc- essential in order to develop a successful business tion planning system currently in use in various strategy, plan ahead and eventually gain measur- industries are included in the later chapters. able competitive advantage. The Competitive Throughout the two volumes there are suggestions Intelligence approach is geared towards this. This on promising directions for future work focused book is a practical introduction to the concepts, on closing the gaps. techniques and uses of CI.
Features Features 7 A systematic and comprehensive examination 7 Offers fundamental and practical introduction of the state-of-the-art of production planning to Competitive Intelligence 7 Case studies show problems and the methods and formulations the applications of different methods and highlight for solving these problems 7 The focus of the practical aspects handbook is on the entire range of "real world" production planning problems: their bases and the Contents various approaches to their solutions 7 Editors Introduction.- The Psychology Behind Intelligence are respected in their fields Analysis.- The Competitive Intelligence Cycle.- Observation, HUMINT and Electronic Media.- Fields of interest Basic Analysis Methods.- Advanced Analysis Production/Logistics; Engineering Economics, Methods.- The Competitive Intelligence Center.- Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Operations Special Themes within Competitive Intelligence. Research/Decision Theory Fields of interest Target groups Management/Business for Professionals; Organiza- Professional/practitioner tion/Planning
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Ö. Sevdiren, Istanbul, Turkey J. P. Terhechte, University of Hamburg, Germany Alternatives to Imprisonment International Competition in England and Wales, Enforcement Law Between Germany and Turkey Cooperation and Convergence A Comparative Study The international dimensions of competition law and policy are most often examined at the level of The book focuses on the problematic areas of substantive law. In this legal area both intentional Turkish penal justice, such as the overreliance on and spontaneous assimilation and harmonization custodial measures and a corresponding growth trends can be recognized, which manifest them- in the prison population, and compares Turkey selves e.g. in comparable approaches to combating with two major European countries in this respect: particularly harmful restraints (so-called “hard- England and Wales and Germany. The underlying core cartels”). However, the complex terrain of question throughout the study is the extent to enforcement law has been mainly ignored up to which prison alternatives can be seen as genuine date. Are there common approaches in this field as alternatives to immediate custodial sentences. well? How are the various competition laws linked with each other in respect to procedural norms? Features This book conceptualizes “International Competi- 7 Thorough examination of the sentencing tion Enforcement Law” against the backdrop of system with regard to non-custodial sanctions in these issues and at the level of comparative law. the jurisdictions of England and Wales, Germany The ciphers “cooperation” and “convergence” will and Turkey 7 Detailed analysis of historical and serve as the two principle ideas for this book. contemporary developments in relation to non- custodial sentencing 7 Statistical analysis and an Contents examination of a wide range of empirical studies Introduction.- “Cooperation” as Guiding Prin- ciple of International Competition Enforcement Contents Law.- Convergence of International Competi- 1 Introduction.- 2 Some Reflections on the History tion Enforcement Law.- Procedural Convergence and Development of Alternatives to Prison. through Cooperation?- Summary. - 3 Alternatives to Imprisonment in England: Destined to Fall?.- 4 Alternatives to Imprison- Fields of interest ment in Germany: Less is More?.- 5 Alternatives to International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law; Imprisonment in Turkey: A “Schattendasein”?. Economic Policy - 6 Summary and Conclusions.- References. Target groups Fields of interest Research Criminal Law; International & Foreign Law/ Comparative Law; Criminology & Criminal Justice Discount group P Target groups Graduate
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D. W. Chapman, University of Arizona, Minneapolis, J. C. Smart, University of Memphis, TN, USA (Ed.) M. S. Khine, I. M. Saleh, Bahrain Teachers College, AZ, USA; W. K. Cummings, George Washington Manama, Bahrain (Eds.) University, DC, USA; G. A. Postiglione, The University Higher Education: Handbook of Hong Kong, China (Eds.) of Theory and Research Models and Modeling Crossing Borders in East Asian Volume 25 Cognitive Tools for Scientific Enquiry
Higher Education Published annually since 1985, the Handbook The process of developing models, known as series provides a compendium of thorough and modeling, allows scientists to visualize difficult This book examines issues that have emerged as integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of concepts, explain complex phenomena and clarify higher education systems and individual institu- topics of interest to the higher education scholarly intricate theories. In recent years, science educa- tions across East Asia confront and adapt to and policy communities. Each chapter provides tors have greatly increased their use of modeling in the changing economic, social, and educational a comprehensive review of research findings on teaching, especially real-time dynamic modeling, environments in which they now operate. The a selected topic, critiques the research literature which is central to a scientific investigation. book’s focus is on how higher education systems in terms of its conceptual and methodological Modeling in science teaching is being used in an learn from each other and on the ways in which rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research array of fields, everything from primary sciences they collaborate to address new challenges. The intended to advance knowledge on the chosen to tertiary chemistry to college physics, and it sub-theme that runs through this volume concerns topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general is sure to play an increasing role in the future the changing nature of cross-border sharing. In areas that encompass the salient dimensions of of education. Models and Modeling: Cognitive particular, the provision of technical assistance by scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the Tools for Scientific Enquiry is a comprehensive more industrialized countries to lower and middle international higher education community. The introduction to the use of models and modeling income countries has given way to collaborations series is fortunate to have attracted annual contri- in science education. It identifies and describes that place the latter’s participating institutions on a butions from distinguished scholars throughout many different modeling tools and presents recent more equal footing. the world. applications of modeling as a cognitive tool for scientific enquiry. Features Features 7 This volume examines various motivations, 7 Authoritative in the field of higher education Features goals, mechanisms, outcomes and challenges 7 Provides state-of-the-art reviews on a wide 7 Comprehensive introduction to the use of associated with cross-border collaboration in range of topics in the study of higher education models and modeling in science education higher education 7 A remarkable study of the 7 Attracts annual contributions from distin- 7 Focuses explicitly on enhancing science delivery of citizenship education across the region guished scholars around the world 7 Chapters learning 7 Examines the most up-to-date and 7 Written by experts are frequently cited in major higher education contemporary research efforts 7 Explores journals concepts that are vital to the understanding of Fields of interest science teaching International and Comparative Education Fields of interest Higher Education; Curriculum Studies; Adminis- Fields of interest Target groups tration, Organization and Leadership Science Education; Learning and Instruction Research Target groups Target groups Discount group Research Research P Discount group Discount group P P
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L. McAlpine, University of Oxford, UK; C. Amundsen, L. D. Soto, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada (Eds.) FL, USA Doctoral Education: Research Latina/o Hope
Based Strategies for Doctoral There are an estimated forty-eight million Latinas/ Students, Supervisors and os living in the United States, roughly sixteen Administrators percent of the population. Not only are they the largest minority group in the country but also the youngest: one out of five children is Latina/o. The quality of the academics who undertake the The rise in the Latina/o population has caused for work of teaching and research is critical to the panic in some areas of the country, resulting in significance, status and relevance of our universi- hostile and sometimes violent racism and xeno- ties. There is widespread evidence that doctoral phobia, and yet, much of that hatred is fueled not students are not being properly prepared for on facts but rather on myths about immigration.To the changing face of higher education and that date, most studies on immigration have been data once they take up academic positions, they often driven, focusing on migrating groups or policy experience many frustrations and tensions. This analyses. Latina/o Hope is different. It incorporates book, based on a four-year-long research program salient theories on migration as it moves toward a conducted by four academics and four graduate new theorizing, one that views immigration from students, investigates the experiences of doctoral the immigrant’s perspective. students, new academics and senior academics as they engage in their work related to doctoral Features education. Doctoral Education: Research-Based 7 Addresses the complexities of border immigra- Strategies for Doctoral Students, Supervisors and tion from a critical pedagogy perspective 7 Gives Administrators offers research-based strategies for a comprehensive treatment of issues of power improving doctoral education in a non-technical on Latinos/as 7 Helps readers to gain a more and conversational way. educated and informed perspective for Latinas/os
Features Contents 7 Provides a research-based analysis and Foreword.- Acknowledgments.- Chapter 1: Intro- strategies for improving doctoral education in a duction.- Chapter 2: Young Children .- Chapter 3: non-technical and conversational way 7 Includes Immigration and Immigrants.- Chapter 4: High personally-focused research-based strategies for School Students.- Chapter 5: Drop-out/Push-out doctoral students and supervisors to enhance their Learners.- Chapter 6: University Students,.- own experiences 7 Taken-for-granted practices Chapter 7: Growing up’ Mixed .- Chapter 8: Border and policies surrounding doctoral education are learners (South Texas).- Chapter 9: Adult ESL challenged based on research evidence learners .- Chapter 10: Latina/meztiza.- Chapter 11: The incarcerated.- Chapter 12: Conclusion. Fields of interest Higher Education; Administration, Organization Fields of interest and Leadership Sociology of Education; International and Comparative Education Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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A. Börsch-Supan, M. Brandt, University of N. J. Conard, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, S. Condemi, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, Mannheim, Germany; K. Hank, University of Cologne, Germany; J. Richter, Universität zu Köln, Germany France; G. Weniger, Neanderthal Museum, Germany; M. Schröder, German Institute for (Eds.) Mettmann, Germany (Eds.) Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany (Eds.) Neanderthal Lifeways, Continuity and Discontinuity The Individual and the Subsistence and Technology in the Peopling of Europe Welfare State One Hundred and Fifty Years of Neanderthal One Hundred and Fifty Years of Neanderthal Life Histories in Europe Study Study
Our health, our income and our social networks The 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Since the Western world first became aware of at older ages are the consequence of what has famous Neanderthal fossils gave reason for an the existence of Neanderthals, this Pleistocene happened to us over the course of our lives. The international and interdisciplinary symposium human has been a regular focus of interest among situation at age 50+ reflects our own decisions as in Bonn/Germany. The present book arose from specialists and also among the general public. In well as many environmental factors, especially this congress and focuses on multiple aspects fact, we know far more about Neanderthals than interventions by the welfare state. This book of archaeological investigation on Neanderthal we do about any other extinct human population. explores the richness of 28,000 life histories in lifeways. In-depth studies of top-ranking scientists Furthermore, over the past 150 years no other thirteen European countries, collected as part provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of palaeospecies has been such a constant source of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement contemporary research on our Pleistocene rela- of discussion and fierce debate among palaeo- in Europe (SHARE). Combining these data with tives. Examinations and debates are embedded in anthropologists and archaeologists. This book a comprehensive account of European welfare a variety of regions and time frames. Chronology, presents the status of our knowledge as well as the state interventions provides a unique opportunity subsistence, land use, and cultural adaptations methods and techniques used to study this extinct to answer the important public policy ques- among late Neanderthals form the major trajec- population and it suggests perspectives for future tions of our time – how the welfare state affects tories of the book. The wide range of approaches research. people’s incomes, housing, families, retirement, involved, leads to an increasing understanding volunteering and health. The overarching theme of the facets of and the variability of Neander- Features of the welfare state creates a book of genuinely thal behavioural patterns. The present volume is 7 Offers the most recent summary of results interdisciplinary analyses, a valuable resource for complemented by a paleontologically orientated concerning ancient fossils in Europe, Neanderthals economists, gerontologists, historians, political publication of the same congress (edited by Gerd- and the origin of modern humans 7 Deals with scientists, public health analysts, and sociologists Christian Weniger and Silvana Condemi). the relation between Neanderthals and modern alike. Humans Features Features 7 Features chronology of Neanderthal culture, Fields of interest 7 Provides an introduction to the great research the relationship to their environment and social Anthropology; Archaeology; Evolutionary Biology potential of SHARELIFE data 7 Gives an inter- structure 7 Focus on multiple aspects of archaeo- disciplinary overview over all relevant topics in logical investigation on Neanderthal lifeways Target groups the research fields of ageing and social policy Professional/practitioner 7 Targeted to the research community but also Contents to professionals and practitioners Part i the chronological framework: long time Discount group sequences.- part ii neanderthal subsistence and P Contents raw material procurement.- part iii neanderthal PART I: Income, Housing, and Wealth.- PART cognition and technological knowledge.- part iv II: Work and Retirement.- PART III: Health and neanderthal social organization and land use.- part Health Care.- Part IV: Persecution. v cultural adaptation amont the last neanderthals.
Fields of interest Fields of interest Aging; Population Economics; Social Policy Archaeology; Anthropology; Regional and Cultural Studies Target groups Research Target groups Research Discount group P Discount group P
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S. Immerfall, University of Education, Schwäbisch S. Schatz, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA R. Settersten, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Gmünd, Germany; G. Therborn, University of USA; J. L. Angel, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Cambridge, UK (Eds.) Murder and Politics in Mexico (Eds.) Handbook of European Political Killings in the Partido de Handbook of the Sociology of la Revolucion Democratica and its Societies Consequences Aging Social Transformations in the 21st Century Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most European integration is one of the most ambitious of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization- comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treat- and socially far-reaching developments in world democratization within the larger context of ment of developments within the field over the politics and in world economics. Against growing political repression. Mexico’s democratization past 30 years. The volume represents an indispens- opposition and despite increasing social hetero- process has entailed a little known but highly able source of the freshest and highest standard geneity, the European Union continues to expand significant cost of human lives in pre- and post- scholarship for scholars, policy makers, and aging and to acquire new competences. But to what election violence. The majority of these crimes professionals alike. The Handbook of Sociology of extent is the self-proclaimed “ever closer union remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no Aging contains 45 far-reaching chapters, authored among the peoples of Europe” a social reality? person had been charged with the crime and/or no by nearly 80 of the most renowned experts, on the In which ways is the political European project investigation of it had occurred. This has several most pressing topics related to aging today. With anchored in social developments? How does consequences for Mexican politics: when the level its recurring attention to the social forces that social change impinge upon political integration? of violence is extreme and when political killings shape human aging, and the social consequences Societal trends in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, that are systematic and invasive are involved, this and policy implications of it, the contents will be multi-lingual and socially diverse Europe have could indicate a real fracture in the democratic of interest to everyone who cares about what aging never been studied systematically. Handbook of system. This book analyzes several dimensions means for individuals, families, and societies. European Societies: Social Transformations in the regarding impunity and political crime, more 21st Century sets to rectify this neglect of societal specifically, the political killings of members of the Features developments in Europe, providing a groundwork PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. 7 Contributors with interdisciplinary back- for the sociology of European integration. The grounds, to present the full scope of research book portrays social life and social relations in the Features 7 Synthesizes and combines the research on enlarged Europe, and gives a perspective on the 7 The only currently existing monograph on Aging and the Life Course into one volume European Union as an evolving social entity. political assassination in Mexico 7 Explores the 7 Three step approach considers the social effect of democratization on crime and criminal phenomena, effect on the life course, and relavent Features justice in Mexico, with applications throughout social policies 7 Provides a comprehensive reference to the Latin America 7 The result of several years of complexities of European societal transformations collection of difficult to gather data and research, Fields of interest 7 Contains solid and accessible information on a using rare political-party documents Aging; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen; Social wide variety of social trends and processes within Policy and across European societies 7 Helps to under- Fields of interest stand social diversity and its consequences for EU's Criminology & Criminal Justice; Political Science Target groups political integration Research Target groups Fields of interest Research Discount group Sociology; European Integration; Quality of Life P Research Discount group P Target groups Research
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G. McFee, University of Brighton, UK A. Tymieniecka, World Institute for Advanced A. Vaccaro, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Phenomenological Research and Learning, Hanover, Portugal; A. Santana, University of Northern Iowa, Artistic Judgement NH, USA; N. Muhtaroglu, University of Kentucky, Cedar Falls, IA, USA; D. J. Wood, University of Lexington, KY, USA (Eds.) Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA (Eds.) A Framework for Philosophical Aesthetics Classic Issues in Islamic Impact of Network Ethics on Artistic Judgement sketches a framework for an account of art suitable to philosophical aesthetics. Philosophy and Theology Business Practices It stresses differences between artworks and other Today things; and locates the understanding of artworks This book on network ethics offers 15 scholarly both in a narrative of the history of art and in the This collection of classic issues in Islamic theology chapters from a variety of disciplines and fields institutional practices of the art world. Hence its and philosophy, authored by young Islamic of study, all aimed at exploring some important distinctiveness lies in its strong account of the scholars, is for Islamic and Occidental readers aspect of how networks develop, enact, and difference between, on the one hand, the judge- alike. While the questions are classic, these studies enforce ethical norms. The chapters are ordered ment and appreciation of art and, on the other, the are not focused on historical matters. They proceed according to the levels of analysis each deals with, judgement and appreciation of all the other things from the authors’ personal quest, prompted by ranging from the cognitive/intrapersonal to the in which we take an aesthetic interest. For only contemporary concerns as they seek to understand systemic/societal. Taken together, these chapter by acknowledging this contrast can one do justice the old themes afresh as relevant to inherited provide a fresh look at how networks are changing to the importance regularly ascribed to art. The Islamic wisdom. These studies strike us as initi- the way business is done and the way we think contrast is explained by appealing to an occasion- ating its contribution to the New Enlightenment, about ethics. sensitive account of understanding, drawn from which emerges from the technologico-pragmatic Charles Travis directly, but with Gordon Baker turn of today’s universal situation, loosening its Features (and Wittgenstein) as also proximate rather than grip. Firstly, by their response to the present day 7 Provides a fresh look at how networks are remote. call to revivify metaphysics, benefitting from the changing the way business is done 7 Highlights evolution of knowledge. Secondly, the search for the role of network ethics at the cross-roads of Features renewed Islamic illumination is manifested in our computer ethics, information ethics, and business 7 Offers a distinctive account of the importance authors’ sharing their reflection in encounters with ethics 7 Combines a healthy mix of conceptual/ of distinguishing artistic judgement from mere Occidental thinkers, renewing the precious ties theoretical and empirical approaches aesthetic judgement 7 Grounds the discus- between East and West that were formed in the sion in an interesting, innovative framework for Middle Ages and then disrupted. Contents explaining meaning and understanding Introduction to the Special Issue on the Impact of 7 Connects philosophical aesthetics with institu- Features Network Ethics on Business Practices; Antonino tions of art-making and art-appreciating 7 Offers 7 This collection of studies in classic issues of Vaccaro, Adele Santana and Donna J. Wood.- Adam a framework as a research agenda for the future of Islamic theology and philosophy is directed to Smith’s Vision of the Ethical Manager; George philosophical aesthetics Islamic and Occidental readers alike 7 This Bragues.- Hierarchical Motive Structures and works renews the precious ties between Islamic Their Role in Moral Choices; Richard P. Bagozzi, Fields of interest and Western thinkers that were formed in the Leslie E. Sekerka, Vanessa Hill.- The Practice of Aesthetics; Arts Middle Ages and then disrupted Networking: An Ethical Approach; Domènec Melé.- Web 2.0 Social Networks: The Role of Trust; Target groups Fields of interest Sonja Grabner-Kräuter.- Corporate Responsibili- Research Philosophy of Religion; Religious Studies; Non- ties in Internet-Enabled Social Networks; Stephen Western Philosophy Chen.- Deception in Business Networks: Is It Discount group Easier to Lie Online? Jeanne M. Logsdon, Karen P Target groups D. W. Patterson.- Three Roads to P2P Systems and Research Their Impact on Business Practices and Ethics; Ugo Pagallo, Massimo Durante. Discount group P Fields of interest Ethics; Economics/Management Science, general; Philosophy
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J. H. Randall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Linking The Geometry of Argument Structure
Linking – how semantic arguments map to the syntax – is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly deter- mined by lexical argument geometry. Yielding novel – if sometimes surprising – conclusions, her Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis establishes the linking patterns of a wide range of verbs and, with those results, shows how to reason “backwards” from how a given verb’s arguments link to what its lexical representation must be. Along the way, the investigation takes on thorny lexical issues – reformulating the Theta Criterion, revisiting the multiple lexical-entry debate, eliminating “indi- rect” arguments and redefining unaccusativity.
Features 7 Novel theory of argument linking, a redefini- tion of "argument" and a simplified view of argu- ment structure 7 Revised and highly constrained Theta Criterion 7 A range of tests for arguments vs. adjuncts converging on new lexical structures for many verb classes 7 Principle for building complex lexical entries from simple ones
From the contents A phenomenon and a principle: the Isomor- phic Linking Hypothesis. Our representations. The competition. Advantages of this proposal. Going forward.- Part I A Theory of Linking – 1 Conceptual Structure. 2 Eliminating the indirect/ direct internal argument distinction. 3 Explaining Linking Regularities. 4 Syntactically unexpressed arguments, incorporation, and adjuncts. 5 The Linking of Resultative Verbs: Clausal Fusion. 6 The Prohibition Against Double Fusion.- Part II More Linking results across the lexicon – 7 Causative verbs with PLACE arguments. 8 Unaccusative verbs: a cluster of verb classes. 9 Complex caus- ative verbs.
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