academic press okt 2008 (7 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Re-examining key passages in Dante's oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the 'Divine Comedy.' Olivia Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two attractive women--Beatrice and the 'other woman.' Investigating the traditions and archetypes that contributed to the formation of Dante's two beloveds, Holmes shows how Dante brilliantly overlaid and combined these paradigms in his poem. In doing so he re-imagined the two women as not merely oppositional condensations of apparently conflicting cultural traditions but also complementary versions of the same. This visionary insight sheds new light on Dante's corpus and on the essential paradox at the poem's heart: the unabashed eroticism of Dante's turn away from the earthly in favor of the divine.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das 2006 in Deutschland verkündete Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) fördert Transparenz in einem historisch geprägten, bislang unzulänglichen Verfahren ¿ kennzeichnend dafür die so genannte Akteneinsicht in der Verwaltungspraxis. Obwohl es nicht an internationalen Vorlagen fehlte und die Informationsgesellschaft bereits das Schlagwort geliefert hatte, musste die sog. Informationsfreiheit als demokratisches Prinzip in Deutschland erst erschlossen werden. Das gewachsene Bewusstsein für das Phänomen Korruption wies schließlich den Weg. Insbesondere Transparency International als NGO konnte auf den Zusammenhang zwischen Informationsfreiheit und Korruptionsbekämpfung verweisen. Diese neu eröffnete Sichtweise ließ schließlich Bewegung in einen über zwei Jahrzehnte stagnierenden Gesetzgebungsprozess kommen. Die Autorin schildert den steinigen Weg bis zur Einführung des bundesweiten Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes in Deutschland: Divergierende Interessen von Verbänden und Industrie machten eine gesetzliche Lösung über Jahrzehnte nicht greifbar.Das Buch zitiert die relevanten Stimmen, die Hindernisse der Vergangenheit und die Motive, die dem Gesetz zugrunde liegen, ebensowie die Erwartungen der Öffentlichkeit an das Gesetz und dessen Grenzen.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Markov processes are used to model systems with limited memory. They are used in many areas including communications systems, transportation networks, image segmentation and analysis, biological systems and DNA sequence analysis, random atomic motion and diffusion in physics, social mobility, population studies, epidemiology, animal and insect migration, queueing systems, resource management, dams, financial engineering, actuarial science, and decision systems.This book, which is written for upper level undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers, presents a unified presentation of Markov processes. In addition to traditional topics such as Markovian queueing system, the book discusses such topics as continuous-time random walk,correlated random walk, Brownian motion, diffusion processes, hidden Markov models, Markov random fields, Markov point processes and Markov chain Monte Carlo. Continuous-time random walk is currently used in econophysics to model the financial market, which has traditionally been modelled as a Brownian motion. Correlated random walk is popularly used in ecological studies to model animal and insect movement. Hidden Markov models are used in speech analysis and DNA sequence analysis while Markov random fields and Markov point processes are used in image analysis. Thus, the book is designed to have a very broad appeal.- Provides the practical, current applications of Markov processes- Coverage of HMM, Point processes, and Monte Carlo- Includes enough theory to help students gain throrough understanding of the subject- Principles can be immediately applied in many specific research projects, saving researchers time- End of chapter exercises provide reinforcement, practice and increased understanding to the student 512 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Calvet and Fisher present a powerful, new technique for volatility forecasting that draws on insights from the use of multifractals in the natural sciences and mathematics and provides a unified treatment of the use of multifractal techniques in finance. A large existing literature (e.g., Engle, 1982; Rossi, 1995) models volatility as an average of past shocks, possibly with a noise component. This approach often has difficulty capturing sharp discontinuities and large changes in financial volatility. Their research has shown the advantages of modelling volatility as subject to abrupt regime changes of heterogeneous durations. Using the intuition that some economic phenomena are long-lasting while others are more transient, they permit regimes to have varying degrees of persistence. By drawing on insights from the use of multifractals in the natural sciences and mathematics, they show how to construct high-dimensional regime-switching models that are easy to estimate, and substantially outperform some of the best traditional forecasting models such as GARCH. The goal of Multifractal Volatility is to popularize the approach by presenting these exciting new developments to a wider audience. They emphasize both theoretical and empirical applications, beginning with a style that is easily accessible and intuitive in early chapters, and extending to the most rigorous continuous-time and equilibrium pricing formulations in final chapters. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the fourth edition of the undisputed classic on the prefrontal cortex, the principal 'executive' structure of the brain. Because of its role in such cognitive functions as working memory, planning, and decision-making, the prefrontal cortex is critically involved in the organization of behavior, language, and reasoning. Prefrontal dysfunction lies at the foundation of several psychotic and neurodegenerative disorders, including schizophrenia and dementia.Written by an award-winning author who discovered 'memory cells'-the physiological substrate of working memoryProvides an in-depth examination of the contributions of every relevant methodology, from comparative anatomy to modern imagingWell-referenced with more than 2000 references 424 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Partial-update adaptive signal processing algorithms not only permit significant complexity reduction in adaptive filter implementations, but can also improve adaptive filter performance in telecommunications applications. This book gives state-of-the-art methods for the design and development of partial-update adaptive signal processing algorithms for use in systems development.Partial-Update Adaptive Signal Processing provides a comprehensive coverage of key partial updating schemes, giving detailed information on the theory and applications of acoustic and network echo cancellation, channel equalization and multiuser detection. It also examines convergence and stability issues for partial update algorithms, providing detailed complexity analysis and a unifying treatment of partial-update techniques.Features:. Advanced analysis and design tools. Application examples illustrating the use of partial-update adaptive signal processing. MATLAB codes for developed algorithms This unique reference will be of interest to signal processing and communications engineers, researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students.'This is a very systematic and methodical treatment of an adaptive signal processing topic, of particular significance in power limited applications such as in wireless communication systems and smart ad hoc sensor networks. I am very happy to have this book on my shelf, not to gather dust, but to be consulted and used in my own research and teaching activities' - Professor A. G. Constantinides, Imperial College, LondonAbout the author:Kutluyil Dogançay is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Australia. His research interests span statistical and adaptive signal processing and he serves as a consultant to defence and private industry. He was the Signal Processing and Communications Program Chair of IDC Conference 2007, and is currently chair of the IEEE South Australia Communications and Signal Processing Chapter. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the major goals of researchers in the field of apoptosis is to identify targets for novel therapies in cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimer's disease. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of the various components of the apoptotic pathways is the first step to reaching this goal. The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Sydney Brenner (United Kingdom), H. Robert Horvitz (US) and John E. Sulston (UK) 'for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.' Cell death is a fundamental aspect of embryonic development, normal cellular turnover and maintenance of homeostasis (maintaining a stable, constant environment) on the one hand, and aging and disease on the other. This volume addresses the significant advances with the techniques that are being used to analyze cell death. Englisch.