Springer berlin heidelberg apr 2016 (51 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Auch in der 3., vollständig aktualisierten und erweiterten Auflage gibt das bewährte Buch eine systematische und praxisnahe Einführung in die Anwendung von Heilpflanzen in der Veterinärpraxis. Nach Indikationsgebieten geordnet werden zu jeder relevanten Pflanze die botanischen Eigenschaften, die Inhaltsstoffe und ihre Wirkungen, die Anwendungsgebiete mit exakten Dosierungen und Rezepturen und mögliche unerwünschte Wirkungen sowie rechtliche Regelungen zur Anwendung beschrieben; zusätzlich werden alle Pflanzen durch eine oder mehrere Abbildungen veranschaulicht.Neu in der 3. Auflage sind die Beschreibungen 8 weiterer Pflanzen,die Angabe der verfügbaren Pflanzenpräparate zu jeder Heilpflanze,Hinweise auf spezifische Regelungen zur Anwendung in der Schweiz sowieeine Liste ausgewählter Bezugsquellen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Eine neu eingeführte übersichtliche Tabelle erleichtert für die wichtigen Anwendungsgebiete die Suche nach den geeigneten Heilpflanzen. Einführende Kapitel zu den pharmakologischen und rechtlichen Grundlagen sowie ein ausführlicher Anhang mit Begriffserklärungen und Listen zum Nachschlagen runden die Darstellung ab. 380 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Auch in der 3., vollständig aktualisierten und erweiterten Auflage gibt das bewährte Buch eine systematische und praxisnahe Einführung in die Anwendung von Heilpflanzen in der Veterinärpraxis. Nach Indikationsgebieten geordnet werden zu jeder relevanten Pflanze die botanischen Eigenschaften, die Inhaltsstoffe und ihre Wirkungen, die Anwendungsgebiete mit exakten Dosierungen und Rezepturen und mögliche unerwünschte Wirkungen sowie rechtliche Regelungen zur Anwendung beschrieben; zusätzlich werden alle Pflanzen durch eine oder mehrere Abbildungen veranschaulicht.Neu in der 3. Auflage sind die Beschreibungen 8 weiterer Pflanzen,die Angabe der verfügbaren Pflanzenpräparate zu jeder Heilpflanze,Hinweise auf spezifische Regelungen zur Anwendung in der Schweiz sowieeine Liste ausgewählter Bezugsquellen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Eine neu eingeführte übersichtliche Tabelle erleichtert für die wichtigen Anwendungsgebiete die Suche nach den geeigneten Heilpflanzen. Einführende Kapitel zu den pharmakologischen und rechtlichen Grundlagen sowie ein ausführlicher Anhang mit Begriffserklärungen und Listen zum Nachschlagen runden die Darstellung ab.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ce livre des Éléments de mathématique est consacré à la Topologie algébrique. Les quatre premiers chapitres présentent la théorie des revêtements d'un espace topologique et du groupe de Poincaré. On construit le revêtement universel d'un espace connexe pointé délaçable et on établit l'équivalence de catégories entre revêtements de cet espace et actions du groupe de Poincaré.On démontre une version générale du théorème de van Kampen exprimant le groupoïde de Poincaré d'un espace topologique comme un coégalisateur de diagrammes de groupoïdes. Dans de nombreuses situations géométriques, on en déduit une présentation explicite du groupe de Poincaré. 516 pp. Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The LNCS journal Transactions on ComputationalScience reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science,conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as aninnovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines. The journalfocuses on original high-quality research in the realm of computational sciencein parallel and distributed environments, encompassing the facilitatingtheoretical foundations and the applications of large-scale computations and massivedata processing. It addresses researchers and practitioners in areas rangingfrom aerospace to biochemistry, from electronics to geosciences, frommathematics to software architecture, presenting verifiable computationalmethods, findings, and solutions, and enabling industrial users to applytechniques of leading-edge, large-scale, high performance computationalmethods.This, the 27th issue of the Transactions onComputational Science journal, is devoted to the topic of high-performancecomputing. It contains eight full papers, covering the areas of cloudmiddleware, multi-processor systems, quantum computing, optimization, andsecure biometric-based encryption methods. 156 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -JIMD Reports publishes case and short researchreports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlightsome unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, orserve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of aMendelian disorder. 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Tools andAlgorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2016, which tookplace in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of theEuropean Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016.The 44 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 175 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: abstractionand verification; probabilistic and stochastic systems; synthesis; tool papers;concurrency; tool demos; languages and automata; security; optimization; andcompetition on software verification - SV-COMP. 984 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book will be of interest to readers active in the fields of survival analysis, genetics, ecology, biology, demography, reliability and quality control.Since Sir David Cox's pioneering work in 1972, the proportional hazards model has become the most important model in survival analysis. The success of the Cox model stimulated further studies in semiparametric and nonparametric theories, counting process models, study designs in epidemiology, and the development of many other regression models that could offer more flexible or more suitable approaches in data analysis.Flexible semiparametric regression models are increasingly being used to relate lifetime distributions to time-dependent explanatory variables. Throughout the book, various recent statistical models are developed in close connection with specific data from experimental studies in clinical trials or from observational studies. 140 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book demystifies the models we use to simulate present and future climates, allowing readers to better understand how to use climate model results. In order to predict the future trajectory of the Earth's climate, climate-system simulation models are necessary. When and how do we trust climate model predictions The book offers a framework for answering this question. It provides readers with a basic primer on climate and climate change, and offers non-technical explanations for how climate models are constructed, why they are uncertain, and what level of confidence we should place in them. It presents current results and the key uncertainties concerning them. Uncertainty is not a weakness but understanding uncertainty is a strength and a key part of using any model, including climate models. Case studies of how climate model output has been used and how it might be used in the future are provided. The ultimate goal of this book is to promote a better understanding of the structure and uncertainties of climate models among users, including scientists, engineers and policymakers. 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2015, held in Goa, India in November 2015.The conference hosted the following seven workshops: 11th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, WESOA 2015; Second Workshop on Resource Management in Service-Oriented Computing, RMSOC 2015; Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds, ISC 2015; Second Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds; First International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Services Computing, DISCO 2015; Workshop on Engineering for Service-oriented Enterprises, WESE 2015; First International Workshop on Big Data Services and Computational Intelligence, BSCI 2015 (joined with ISC 2015); and Second International Workshop on Formal Modeling and Verification of Service-based systems, FOR-MOVES 2015.The 22 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. 288 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In einzigartiger Form bietet der Autor sowohl zu den Herausforderungen von Scheidungsfamilien, als auch zu den Aufgaben der Berufszweige, welche hier Unterstützung anbieten, praktische und hilfreiche Antworten. Ohne dabei auf wissenschaftliche Hintergründe verzichten zu müssen, werden praktische Fälle für jedermann nachvollziehbar und auch fesselnd aufbereitet. Finden Franz und Anita eine Lösung für ihre beiden Kinder 264 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the second edition of Wil van der Aalst's seminal book on process mining, which now discusses the field also in the broader context of data science and big data approaches. It includes several additions and updates, e.g. on inductive mining techniques, the notion of alignments, a considerably expanded section on software tools and a completely new chapter of process mining in the large. It is self-contained, while at the same time covering the entire process-mining spectrum from process discovery to predictive analytics. After a general introduction to data science and process mining in Part I, Part II provides the basics of business process modeling and data mining necessary to understand the remainder of the book. Next, Part III focuses on process discovery as the most important process mining task, while Part IV moves beyond discovering the control flow of processes, highlighting conformance checking, and organizational and time perspectives. Part V offers a guide to successfully applying process mining in practice, including an introduction to the widely used open-source tool ProM and several commercial products. Lastly, Part VI takes a step back, reflecting on the material presented and the key open challenges.Overall, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in process mining. It is intended for business process analysts, business consultants, process managers, graduate students, and BPM researchers. 488 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - This book is an updated version of awell-received book previously published in Chinese by Science Press of China(the first edition in 2006 and the second in 2013). It offers a systematic andpractical overview of spatial data mining, which combines computer science andgeo-spatial information science, allowing each field to profit from theknowledge and techniques of the other. To address the spatiotemporalspecialties of spatial data, the authors introduce the key concepts andalgorithms of the data field, cloud model, mining view, and Deren Li methods.The data field method captures the interactions between spatial objects bydiffusing the data contribution from a universe of samples to a universe ofpopulation, thereby bridging the gap between the data model and the recognitionmodel. The cloud model is a qualitative method that utilizes quantitativenumerical characters to bridge the gap between pure data and linguisticconcepts. The mining view method discriminates the different requirements byusing scale, hierarchy, and granularity in order to uncover the anisotropy ofspatial data mining. The Deren Li method performs data preprocessing to prepareit for further knowledge discovery by selecting a weight for iteration in orderto clean the observed spatial data as much as possible. In addition to theessential algorithms and techniques, the book provides application examples ofspatial data mining in geographic information science and remote sensing. Thepractical projects include spatiotemporal video data mining for protectingpublic security, serial image mining on nighttime lights for assessing theseverity of the Syrian Crisis, and the applications in the government project'the Belt and Road Initiatives'. 336 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book demystifies the models we use to simulate present and future climates, allowing readers to better understand how to use climate model results. In order to predict the future trajectory of the Earth¿s climate, climate-system simulation models are necessary. When and how do we trust climate model predictions The book offers a framework for answering this question. It provides readers with a basic primer on climate and climate change, and offers non-technical explanations for how climate models are constructed, why they are uncertain, and what level of confidence we should place in them. It presents current results and the key uncertainties concerning them. Uncertainty is not a weakness but understanding uncertainty is a strength and a key part of using any model, including climate models. Case studies of how climate model output has been used and how it might be used in the future are provided. The ultimate goal of this book is to promote a better understanding of the structure and uncertainties of climate models among users, including scientists, engineers and policymakers.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses kompakte Lehrbuch führt in die Grundlagen der Organisationswissenschaft ein. Die interdisziplinäre Betrachtung behandelt soziologische, volks- und betriebswirtschaftliche sowie psychologische und pädagogische Erkenntnisse zum Gegenstand der Organisation.Einführend wird die Funktion von Organisationen in modernen Gesellschaften analysiert und die Entwicklung der Organisationsidee und -theorie dargestellt. Die zentralen Gestaltungsparameter wie Strukturen, Prozesse und Projekte werden im Hauptteil ausführlich behandelt. Eine Besonderheit ist die Betrachtung der Veränderungsperspektive durch Change Agents im Schlußteil des Lehrbuchs. Zahlreiche Übungen und Fallstudien vermitteln die Inhalte im Kontext und helfen das Erlernte auf Anwendungssituationen zu übertragen. 180 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt eine Auswahl bis heute aktueller Fragestellungen der Geschichte der Psychologie und ist als solches für Studierende im Bachelor-Studiengang des Faches Psychologie konzipiert.Indem sich der Blickwinkel auf die Aspekte der Fachgeschichte konzentriert, die in heutiges Denken noch erkennbar mit einfließen, ist es auch für Studierende benachbarter Studiengänge als Ergänzung und Erweiterung des aktuellen psychologischen Wissenstandes geeignet.Da das Buch in mehrere Teile, einen eher wissenschaftsgeschichtlich grundlegenden, einen durch Beispiele veranschaulichenden und einen die jüngere Fachgeschichte behandelnden gegliedert ist, kann man sich als Leser oder Leserin auch wahlweise auf einen davon konzentrieren, ohne die Zusammenhänge des Großen und Ganzen deshalb aus den Augen zu verlieren. 368 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a pragmatic analytical model grounded on the solid idea that technologies and the accompanying implementation efforts only make sense if they are successfully deployed in markets. The analytical model also provides an exhaustive analysis of all critical variables at the global, regional and national levels, which contribute to failure or success of technology transfer efforts. The model is validated by an incisive analysis of technology transfer experiences of Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (province of China), and Malaysia. While this book finds that these East Asian countries have had both diverging and converging models, and experiences with technology transfer, the enduring and fundamental aspects of technology transfer in specific industrial sectors and economic growth in these countries is then used to draw lessons for African countries.This book therefore is a timely and compelling piece of research work that provides valuable answers to the increasingly urgent question of how African countries can industrialize through technology transfer to meet their economic development and growth ideals. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the globalhealth impacts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in ambient air,conducted on the basis of a high-resolution emission inventory, global chemicaltransport modeling, and probabilistic risk assessment. One of the mainstrengths of the thesis is the concentration downscaling process, whichprovides a linkage between emissions and exposure concentrations at acomparatively high resolution. Moreover, by focusing on individual susceptibility,the thesis proposes an instrumental revision of current risk assessmentmethodology and argues that, if individual susceptibility were not taken intoconsideration, the overall risk would be underestimated by 55% and theproportion of highly vulnerable populations would be underestimated by morethan 90%. 196 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Volume presents relevant single-cell and single-molecule approaches in the study of microbes producing and utilizing hydrocarbons and lipids. While generically applicable for all microorganisms, the approaches described are, wherever possible, adapted to the field of study of hydrocarbon and lipid microbiology. The methods include basic procedures for isolating single cells by means of microfluidics and flow cytometry, and their cultivation in arrays as pure clones; for isolating, amplifying and sequencing single-cell genomes and transcriptomes; and for analysing single-cell metabolomes by means of Raman spectroscopy. Single-molecule approaches include the use of protein:fluorescent dye fusions for protein localization and methods for the production of cell division protostructures and lipid monolayers. Methods for the functional analysis of single cells include detection of metabolically active (protein-synthesizing) cells in environmental samples by bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging, Raman spectroscopy combined with stable isotope labelling and fluorescent in situ hybridisation, and visualization of single cells participating in gene transfer activity. Lastly, protocols are presented for single-cell biotechnological applications, including biofuel production.Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology ProtocolsThere are tens of thousands of structurally different hydrocarbons, hydrocarbon derivatives and lipids, and a wide array of these molecules are required for cells to function. The global hydrocarbon cycle, which is largely driven by microorganisms, has a major impact on our environment and climate. Microbes are responsible for cleaning up the environmental pollution caused by the exploitation of hydrocarbon reservoirs and will also be pivotal in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels by providing biofuels, plastics and industrial chemicals. Gaining an understanding of the relevant functions of the wide range of microbes that produce, consume and modify hydrocarbons and related compounds will be key to responding to these challenges. This comprehensive collection of current and emerging protocols will facilitate acquisition of this understanding and exploitation of useful activities of such microbes. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Volume presents key microscopy and imaging methods for revealing the structure and ultrastructure of environmental and experimental samples, of microbial communities and cultures, and of individual cells. Method adaptations that specifically address problems concerning the hydrophobic components of samples are highlighted and discussed. The methods described range from electron microscopy and light and fluorescence microscopy, to confocal laser-scanning microscopy, and include experimental set-ups for the analysis of interfacial processes like microbial growth and activities at hydrocarbon:water interfaces, biofilms and microbe:mineral interfaces. Three forms of fluorescence in situ hybridization - CARD-FISH, MAR-FISH and Two-pass TSA-FISH - are described for the ecophysiological analysis of functionally active microbes in samples. The methods presented will enable readers to obtain an ultrastructural picture of, and identify the key functional microbes in, samples under investigation. This in turn will constitute a key framework for the interpretation of information from other experimental approaches, such as physicochemical analyses and genomic investigations.Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology ProtocolsThere are tens of thousands of structurally different hydrocarbons, hydrocarbon derivatives and lipids, and a wide array of these molecules are required for cells to function. The global hydrocarbon cycle, which is largely driven by microorganisms, has a major impact on our environment and climate. Microbes are responsible for cleaning up the environmental pollution caused by the exploitation of hydrocarbon reservoirs and will also be pivotal in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels by providing biofuels, plastics and industrial chemicals. Gaining an understanding of the relevant functions of the wide range of microbes that produce, consume and modify hydrocarbons and related compounds will be key to responding to these challenges. This comprehensive collection of current and emerging protocols will facilitate acquisition of this understanding and exploitation of useful activities of such microbes. 184 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presentsthe transport studies of topological insulator thin films grown by molecularbeam epitaxy. Through band structure engineering, the ideal topologicalinsulators, (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 ternary alloys, are successfully fabricated, whichpossess truly insulating bulk and tunable conducting surface states. Furthertransport measurements on these ternary alloys reveal a disentanglement betweenthe magnetoelectric and thermoelectric properties. In magnetically dopedtopological insulators, the fascinating quantum anomalous Hall effect wasexperimentally observed for the first time. Moreover, the topology-drivenmagnetic quantum phase transition was Systematically controlled by varying thestrength of the spin-orbital coupling. Readers will not only benefit from thedescription of the technique of transport measurements, but will also be inspired bythe understanding of topological insulators. 132 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides an overview of the fundamentals and reference values for Ca stable isotope research, as well as current analytical methodologies including detailed instructions for sample preparation and isotope analysis. As such, it introduces readers to the different fields of application, including low-temperature mineral precipitation and biomineralisation, Earth surface processes and global cycling, high-temperature processes and cosmochemistry, and lastly human studies and biomedical applications. The current state of the art in these major areas is discussed, and open questions and possible future directions are identified. In terms of its depth and coverage, the current work extends and complements the previous reviews of Ca stable isotope geochemistry, addressing the needs of graduate students and advanced researchers who want to familiarize themselves with Ca stable isotope research. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9665 + 9666constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 35th AnnualInternational Conference on the Theory and Applications of CryptographicTechniques, EUROCRYPT 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in May 2016.The 62 full papers included in these volumes werecarefully reviewed and selected from 274 submissions. The papers are organizedin topical sections named: (pseudo)randomness; LPN/LWE; cryptanalysis; masking;fully homomorphic encryption; number theory; hash functions; multilinear maps;message authentification codes; attacks on SSL/TLS; real-world protocols;robust designs; lattice reduction; latticed-based schemes; zero-knowledge;pseudorandom functions; multi-party computation; separations; protocols; roundcomplexity; commitments; lattices; leakage; in differentiability; obfuscation; andautomated analysis, functional encryption, and non-malleable codes. 932 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy, land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other related subjects.This book begins with the current status and problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then introduces the global experience of different regions and different policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development from planning and design, infrastructure and technology assessment-system perspectives.It presents a case study including the theory and methodology to support the unit city theory for low-carbon healthy cities. The book lists the ranking of China's 269 high-level cities, with economic, environmental, resource, construction, transportation and health indexes as an assessment for creating a low-carbon healthy future.The book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of building low-carbon healthy cities in China. 228 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book examines the rights of defendants in infringement procedures and those of the notifying parties in merger proceedings before the European Commission and the Chinese competition authorities. The initial chapters offer a general introduction to EU and Chinese competition law respectively, paying particular attention to the substantive rules of competition law. Subsequent chapters present an overview of the procedural rights of the notifying parties in merger cases in both legal systems surveyed, address the procedural rights of defendants in infringement cases, and provide an international perspective on differences in the notification and enforcement procedures between legal systems. The final chapter draws comparative conclusions and includes a number of suggestions for improvement. 284 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This thesis reports on outstanding work in two main subfields of quantum information science: one involves the quantum measurement problem, and the other concerns quantum simulation. The thesis proposes using a polarization-based displaced Sagnac-type interferometer to achieve partial collapse measurement and its reversal, and presents the first experimental verification of the nonlocality of the partial collapse measurement and its reversal. All of the experiments are carried out in the linear optical system, one of the earliest experimental systems to employ quantum communication and quantum information processing. The thesis argues that quantum measurement can yield quantum entanglement recovery, which is demonstrated by using the frequency freedom to simulate the environment. Based on the weak measurement theory, the author proposes that white light can be used to precisely estimate phase, and effectively demonstrates that the imaginary part of the weak value can be introduced by means of weak measurement evolution. Lastly, a nine-order polarization-based displaced Sagnac-type interferometer employing bulk optics is constructed to perform quantum simulation of the Landau-Zener evolution, and by tuning the system Hamiltonian, the first experiment to research the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in non-equilibrium kinetics processes is carried out in the linear optical system. 152 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder. 112 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thisbook mainly aims at solving the problems in both cooperative and competitivemulti-agent systems (MASs), exploring aspects such as how agents caneffectively learn to achieve the shared optimal solution based on their localinformation and how they can learn to increase their individual utility byexploiting the weakness of their opponents. The book describes fundamental andadvanced techniques of how multi-agent systems can be engineered towards thegoal of ensuring fairness, social optimality, and individual rationality; awide range of further relevant topics are also covered both theoretically andexperimentally. The book will be beneficial to researchers in the fields ofmulti-agent systems, game theory and artificial intelligence in general, as wellas practitioners developing practical multi-agent systems. 178 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents state of the art knowledge on penile augmentation with a view to providing a guide that will be highly relevant to clinical practice. The coverage is wide ranging, with clear descriptions of penile anatomy, patient selection and counselling, preoperative preparation, girth enhancement and penile lengthening techniques, postoperative care, and the approach to the pediatric patient. Experienced surgeons describe operative procedures from traditional fat transfer to the penile disassembly technique and reconstruction of the amputated penis, while the newest tissue engineering techniques are presented by leading researchers with reference to high-quality data. In addition, the role of auxiliary medical devices is explained. The text is supported by numerous full-color illustrations.Only recently have the requisite medical skills and techniques been developed to allow safe and reliable penile augmentation, and now the procedure is considered comparable to the use of mammoplasty for breast augmentation in women for cosmetic and psychological reasons. Penile Augmentation will be of value for all who are involved or interested in the procedure. 288 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification.Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making.Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept. Despite an increasingly sophisticated understanding of dryland environments and societies, the uses now being made of the desertification concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. This book is an effort to critically examine that experience and accelerate the learning process in other parts of the world. 568 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first book to offer a complete presentation of bevel gears. An expert team of authors highlights the areas of application for these machine elements and presents the geometrical features of bevel gears as well as the various gear cutting processes based on gear cutting theory. The aspect of three-dimensional gearing is assessed in detail in terms of flank design, load capacity and noise behavior. A representation of production processes with the required technologies provides a knowledge base on which sound decisions can be based. The authors offer a thorough introduction to the complex world of bevel gears and present the rapid advances of these machine elements in a detailed, comprehensible manner. This book addresses design engineers in mechanical engineering and vehicle manufacturing, as well as producers of bevel gears and students in mechanical engineering. 328 pp. Englisch.…