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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The organization of traditional mutual funds as Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) produced revolutionary changes in the fund industry. These changes, and the subsequent events to which they led, have greatly - creased the practical way of trading funds. Traditional mutual fund m- kets were fragmented, and transactions were both costly and from time to time difficult to arrange. Investments in emerging markets for example were anything but efficient. As a consequence of establishing ETF funds market segments, the efficiency of transactions has been broadly increased as well as transaction costs dramatically reduced. All this changed in the early Nineties with the introduction of the first ETF for the purpose of trading funds. Exchange Traded Funds ¿ Structure, Regulation and Application of a New Fund Class is a comprehensive summary of articles covering all aspects of the Exchange Traded Fund industry. Similar to several publications of the last few years this book includes articles form academia as well as the banking, investment, and insurance industry, this combining theoretical evolution and practical implementation of Exchange Trades Funds. The present book is divided into four parts: The opening part, containing ETFs ¿ A Leading Financial Innovation and From Continent to Sectors: Challenges and Uses of ETFs in Europe, is - signed to give the reader broad insight into the industry, developments and trends. Further, the article Spiders: Where Are the Bugs examine the characteristics and performance of these instruments from an academic point of view.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Context-awareness is one of the drivers of the ubiquitous computing paradigm. Well-designed context modeling and context retrieval approaches are key p- requisites in any context-aware system. Location is one of the primary aspects of all major context models ¿ together with time, identity and activity. From the technical side, sensing, fusing and distributing location and other context information is as important as providing context-awareness to applications and services in pervasive systems. Thematerialsummarizedinthisvolumewasselectedforthe1stInternational Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005) held in coope- tion with the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2005. The workshop was organized by the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfa enhofen, and the Mobile and Distributed Systems Group of the University of Munich. During the workshop, novel positioning algorithms and location sensing te- niques were discussed, comprising not only enhancements of singular systems, like positioning in GSM or WLAN, but also hybrid technologies, such as the integration of global satellite systems with inertial positioning. Furthermore, - provements in sensor technology, as well as the integration and fusion of sensors, were addressed both on a theoretical and on an implementation level. Personal and con dential data, such as location data of users, have p- found implications for personal information privacy. Thus privacy protection, privacy-oriented location-aware systems, and how privacy a ects the feasibility and usefulness of systems were also addressed in the workshop.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 396 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -We wish to extend a warm welcome to the reader of this extended postp- ceedings publication of SAG 2004, the 1st International Workshop on Scienti c Applications on Grid Computing. This workshop was held in September 2004, in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004). The WI and IAT conferences have provided, for several years, a leading - ternational forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse elds,suchascomputerscience,informationtechnology,business,education, - man factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of arti cial intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge r- resentation, planning, knowledge discovery, and data mining, intelligent agents and social network intelligence) and advanced information technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, the Wisdom Web, and data/knowledge grids), and to examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -2 TheaimoftheannualW GIS workshop is to provide an up-to-date review of advances on recent development of Web and wireless geographical information systems, and new challenges and opportunities for researchers, developers and 2 users in the GIS community. The main topic of the W GIS workshop is theor- ical and technical issues of Web and wireless geographical information systems. This workshop followed the successful 2001, 2002 and 2003 editions, held in - oto, Singapore and Rome, respectively. The 2004 edition was held in Goyang, Korea. 2 In its 4th year, W GIS reached new heights of recognition as a quality wo- shopforthedisseminationanddiscussionofnewwaysofaccessingandanalyzing geospatial information. This year, 39 papers were submitted from 15 countries, and 20 papers were accepted from 11 countries. Similarly, the Program C- mittee consisted of 39 members from 16 countries. We had the privilege of having three distinguished invited talks: ¿Eliciting User Preferences in Web Urban Spaces,¿ Yanwu Yang and Christophe Cla- munt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France; ¿Discovering Regional Inf- mation from Web: Localness and Landmark Computation,¿ Katsumi Tanaka, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto U- versity, Japan; and ¿Towards Knowing, Always and Everywhere, Where - erything Is, Precisely,¿ Christian S. Jensen, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the International Workshop ¿Autonomous Intelligent Systems: Agents and Data Mining¿ (AIS-ADM 2005) held in St. Petersburg, Russia, during June 6¿8, 2005. The workshop was - ganized by the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) in cooperation with Binghamton U- versity (SUNY, USA) and the Web Intelligence Consortium. Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) constitute an emerging class of int- ligent information systems integrating recent advances in various technologies of Arti cial Intelligence. Modern AIS incorporate multi-agent and data mining systemsprovidinganewdimensionforfurtherprogressinintelligentinformation technology. AIS-ADM 2005 provided an international forum to multi-agent and data mining researchers. A total of 29 papers from 15 countries relating to various aspects of both theory and applications of multi-agent systems, data mining and their joint area were submitted to AIS-ADM 2005. Out of them 17 were selected as regular presentations. Three technical sessions were organized, namely: In- gration of Multi-agent and Data Mining Techniques; Ontology Issues and Web Mining; and Applications and Case Studies of the Integrated Technology. The panel discussion was devoted to the mutual enrichment and challenging pr- lems emerging in the joint area of research. The AIS-ADM 2005 program was enriched by six distinguished invited speakers: Nick Jennings, Chengqi Zhang, Mircea Negoita, Pericles Mitkas, Hai Zhuge and Leonid Perlovsky.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Information systems can be complex due to numerous factors including scale, decentralization, heterogeneity, mobility, dynamism, bugs and failures. Depl- ing, operating and maintaining such systems can be not only very di cult, but also very costly. A urry of recent activity has been directed at this pr- lem, and future information systems are envisioned as self-con guring, se- organizing,self-managingandself-repairing.Collectively,wecalltheseproperties self- properties. This book is a ¿spin-o ¿ of a by-invitation-only Bertinoro workshop on se- propertiesincomplexsystemswhichwasheldinsummer2004inBertinoro,Italy. The Self-star workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from d- ferent disciplines and with di erent backgrounds to discuss complex information systems.Thethemeoftheworkshopwastoidentifytheconceptualandpractical foundationsformodeling,analyzingandachievingself- propertiesindistributed and networked systems. Partly based on these discussions, we solicited papers from the workshop participants and a set of invitees for this book. We sought original contributions in which authors explicitly take a position concerningrequirements,usefulness,potentialandlimitations oftechnologies for self- properties of complex systems. This position needed to be founded on - search results that were put clearly in context with respect to the position sta- ment. We strongly encouraged visionary statements, thought-provoking ideas, and exploratory results that will help the reader form her or his own opinions on the importance of self- properties in current and future complex information systems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains selected and thoroughly revised papers plus contributions from invited speakers presented at the First International Workshop on C- straint Solving and Language Processing, held in Roskilde, Denmark, September 1¿3, 2004. Constraint Programming and Constraint Solving, in particular Constraint Logic Programming, appear to be a very promising platform, perhaps the most promising present platform, for bringing forward the state of the art in natural language processing, this due to the naturalness in speci cation and the direct relation to e cient implementation. Language, in the present context, may - fer to written and spoken language, formal and semiformal language, and even general input data to multimodal and pervasive systems, which can be handled in very much the same ways using constraint programming. The notion of constraints, with slightly di ering meanings, apply in the ch- acterization of linguistic and cognitive phenomena, in formalized linguistic m- els as well as in implementation-oriented frameworks. Programming techniques for constraint solving have been, and still are, in a period with rapid devel- ment of new e cient methods and paradigms from which language processing can pro t. A common metaphor for human language processing is one big c- straintsolvingprocessinwhichthedi erent(-lyspeci ed)linguisticandcognitive phases take place in parallel and with mutual cooperation, which ts quite well with current constraint programming paradigms. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This volume, like the symposium CSP25 which gave rise to it, commemorates the semi-jubilee of Communicating Sequential Processes. 1 Tony Hoare¿s paper ¿Communicating Sequential Processes¿ is today widely regarded as one of the most in uential papers in computer science. To comm- orate it, an event was organized under the auspices of BCS-FACS (the British Computer Society¿s Formal Aspects of Computing Science specialist group). CSP25 was one of a series of such events organized to highlight the use of formal methods, emphasize their relevance to modern computing and promote their wider application. BCS-FACS is proud that Tony Hoare presented his original ideas on CSP at one of its rst meetings, in 1978. The two-day event, 7¿8 July 2004, was hosted by London South Bank U- versity¿s Institute for Computing Research, Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management. The intention was to celebrate, re ect upon and look beyondthe rstquarter-centuryofCSP¿scontributionstocomputerscience. The meeting examined the impact of CSP on many areas stretching from semantics (mathematical models for understanding concurrency and communications) and logic(forreasoningaboutbehavior),throughthedesignofparallelprogramming languages (i/o, parallelism, synchronization and threads) to applications va- ing from distributed software and parallel computing to information security, Web services and concurrent hardware circuits. It included a panel discussion with panelists Brookes, Hoare, de Roever and Roscoe (chaired by Je Sanders), poster presentations by PhD students and others, featured a re alarm (requ- ing evacuation in the rain!) and concluded with the presentation of a fountain pen to Prof. Sir C. A. R. Hoare. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -E-commerce services are su ering abuse by programs (bots, spiders, etc.) m- querading as legitimate human users. E orts to defend against such attacks have, over the past several years, stimulated investigations into a new family of security protocols ¿ ¿Human Interactive Proofs¿ (HIPs) ¿ which allow a person to authenticate herself as a member of a given group: e.g., as a human (vs. a machine), as herself (vs. anyoneelse), as an adult (vs. a child). Most commercial usesofHIPstodayareCAPTCHAs,¿CompletelyAutomaticPublicTuringt ests to tell Computers and Humans Apart,¿ which exploit the gap in ability between humans and machine vision systems in reading images of text. HIP challenges can also be non-graphical, e.g., requiring recognition of speech, solving puzzles, etc. Wearepleasedtopresentthe rstrefereedandarchivallypublishedcollection of state-of-the-art papers on HIPs and CAPTCHAs. Each paper was reviewed by three members of the Program Committee, judged by the Co-chairs to be of su cient relevance and quality, and revised by the authors in response to the referees¿ suggestions. The papers investigate performance analysis of novel CAPTCHAs, HIP - chitectures, and the role of HIPs within security systems. Kumar Chellapilla, Kevin Larson, Patrice Simard, and Mary Czerwinski describe user trials of a CAPTCHA designed to resist segmentation attacks, including a systematic evaluation of its tolerance by human users. Henry Baird, Michael Moll, and Sui- Yu Wang analyze data from a human legibility trial of another segmentati- resistantCAPTCHAandlocateahighlylegibleengineeringregime.AmaliaRu su and Venu Govindaraju describe research towards CAPTCHAs based on reading synthetically damaged images of real images of unconstrained handwritten text.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It is fairly easy for a Finnish Jurist to understand German Company law. On the other hand, UK Company law seems very confusing. What is even more confusing is that the UK corporate govemance model is often regarded as one of the best in the World. Clearly German law cannot be as bad as it is often said to be. This books results from these kinds of thoughts and an interest in comparative law, Company law and securities markets law. I wanted to find out whether the functional method would give anything new to say about the regulation of corpo rate govemance in Germany and the UK. As I have been lecturing on Company law and corporate govemance myself, I also wanted to write a book that I could use as a textbook in my courses. For this reason, I focused on one of the key questions in corporate govemance: the regula tion of shareholder activism.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 460 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Maluf, Davide Martinenghi, Stan Matwin, Natasha Noy, Werner Nutt, James Peters, Jean-Marc Petit, Vijay Raghavan, Jan Rauch, Gilbert Ritschard, Erik Rosenthal, Marie-Christine Rousset, Nahid Shahmehri, Andrzej Skowron, Dominik Slezak, Nicolas Spyratos, V. S.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 720 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The objective of this book is to provide an up-to-date comprehensive descr- tion of the KamimuräSuwa model, which is the rst of the present rep- sentative two-component theories in high temperature superconductivity. In 1986 George Bednorz and Karl Alex Muller ¿ made the remarkable discovery ofsuperconductivitywithanunbelievinglyhighvalueofT = 35K,bysubs- c 2+ 3+ tuting Ba ions for La ions in the antiferromagnetic insulator La CuO . 2 4 Soon after this discoveryT rose to 90K by synthesizing YBa Cu O with c 2 3 7 ade citinoxygen. Furtherexplorationfornewcopperoxidesuperconducting materials with higherT led to the discovery of Bi¿Sr¿CäCu¿O, Tl¿BäCä c Cu¿O and Hg¿BäCäCu¿O compounds in subsequent years. The new class of copper oxide compounds mentioned above is called ¿cuprates¿. At present T = 135K under ambient pressure andT = 164K under 31 GPa observed c c in HgBa Ca Cu O are the highest value so far obtained. The Kamimurä 2 2 3 8 Suwa model, which was originally developed in 1993, is a theory of these real copper oxide superconducting materials. Since undoped La CuO is a 2 4 Mott¿Hubbard antiferromagnetic insulator, its electronic structure can not beexplained bytheordinaryone-electron energybandtheory. Inthiscontext the important role of electron-correlation was pointed out. 2+ On theother hand, ad-hole state in each Cu ion in theligand eld with octahedral symmetry is orbitally doubly-degenerate so that it is subject to strong Jahn¿Teller interaction in La CuO. Asaresult,aCuO octahedron 2 4 6 in La CuO is elongated along thec-axis due to the Jahn¿Teller distortion.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national and international security-related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach. In the past few years, ISI research has experienced tremendous growth and attracted substantial interest from academic researchers in related fields as well as practitioners from both government agencies and industry. The first two meetings (ISI 2003 and ISI 2004) in the ISI symposium and conference series were held in Tucson, Arizona, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. They provided a stimulating intellectual forum for discussion among previously disparate communities: academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, and social studies; local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts; and information technology industry consultants and practitioners. Building on the momentum of these ISI meetings and with sponsorship by the IEEE, we held the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005) in May 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to the established and emerging ISI research topics covered at past ISI meetings, ISI 2005 included a new track on Terrorism Informatics, which is a new stream of terrorism research leveraging the latest advances in social science methodologies, and information technologies and tools. ISI 2005 was jointly hosted by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; the University of Arizona (UA); and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 696 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In the past ve decades considerable attention has been devoted to comp- ite materials. A number of expressions have been suggested by which mac- scopic properties can be predicted when the properties, geometry, and volume concentrations of the constituent components are known. Many expressions are purely empirical or semi-theoretical. Others, however, are theoretically well founded such as the exact results from the following classical boundary studies: Bounds for the elastic moduli of composites made of perfectly coherent homogeneous, isotropic linear elastic phases have been developed by Paul [1] and Hansen [2] for unrestricted phase geometry and by Hashin and Shtrikman [3] for phase geometries, which cause macroscopic homogeneity and isotropy. The composites dealt with in this book are of the latter type. For two speci c situations (later referred to), Hashin [4] and Hill [5] derived exact - lutionsforthebulkmodulusofsuchmaterials.Hashinconsideredtheso-called Composite Spheres Assemblage (CSA) consisting of tightly packed congruent composite elements made of spherical particles embedded in concentric - trix shells. Hill considered materials in which both phases have identical shear moduli. In the eld of predicting the elastic moduli of homogeneous isotropic c- posite materials in general the exact Hashin and Hill solutions are of th- retical interest mainly. Only a few real composites have the geometry de ned by Hashin or the sti ness distribution assumed by Hill. The enormous sign- icance, however, of the Hashin/Hill solutions is that they represent bounds which must not be violated by sti ness predicted by any new theory claiming to consider geometries in general.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The1stand2ndInternationalConferencesonFunctionalImagingandModelling of the Heart (FIMH) were held in Helsinki, Finland, in November 2001, and in Lyon, France, in June 2003. These meetings were born through a fruitful sci- ti c collaboration between France and Finland that outreached to other groups and led to the start of this biennial event. The FIMH conference was the rst attempt to agglutinate researchers from several complementary but often i- lated elds: cardiac imaging, signal and image processing, applied mathematics and physics, biomedical engineering and computer science, cardiology, radi- ogy, biology, and physiology. In the rst two editions, the conference received an enthusiastic acceptance by experts of all these communities. FIMH was ori- nally started as a European event and has increasingly attracted more and more people from the US and Asia. This edition of FIMH received the largest number of submissions so far with a result of 47 papers being accepted as either oral presentations or posters. There were a number of submissions from non-EU institutions which con rms the growing interest in this series of meetings. All papers were reviewed by up to four reviewers. The accepted contributions were organized into 8 oral sessions and 3 poster sessions complemented by a number of invited talks. This year we tried to allocate as many papers as possible as oral presentations to facilitate more active participation and to stimulate multidisciplinary discussions. 508 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST '05), May 25-27, 2005, Muroran, Japan. It brings together the original work of international soft computing/computational intelligence researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. This proceedings provide contributions to all areas of soft computing including intelligent hybrid systems, agent-based systems, intelligent data mining, decision support systems, cognitive and reactive distributed artificial intelligence (AI), internet modelling, human interface, and applications in science and technology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Although software engineering can trace its beginnings to a NATO conf- ence in 1968, it cannot be said to have become an empirical science until the 1970s with the advent of the work of Prof. Victor Robert Basili of the University of Maryland. In addition to the need to engineer software was the need to understand software. Much like other sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology, software engineering needed a discipline of obs- vation, theory formation, experimentation, and feedback. By applying the scientific method to the software engineering domain, Basili developed concepts like the Goal-Question-Metric method, the Quality-Improvement- Paradigm, and the Experience Factory to help bring a sense of order to the ad hoc developments so prevalent in the software engineering field. On the occasion of Basili¿s 65th birthday, we present this book c- taining reprints of 20 papers that defined much of his work. We divided the 20 papers into 6 sections, each describing a different facet of his work, and asked several individuals to write an introduction to each section. Instead of describing the scope of this book in this preface, we decided to let one of his papers, the keynote paper he gave at the International C- ference on Software Engineering in 1996 in Berlin, Germany to lead off this book. He, better than we, can best describe his views on what is - perimental software engineering.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 448 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In recent decades, the use of neuroimaging techniques has resulted in outstanding progress in the diagnosis and management of neurological diseases, and this is particularly true of those diseases that affect the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. This book, written by internationally acclaimed experts, comprises a series of comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on the use of MR imaging in these major neurological conditions. The diverse available MR techniques, such as magnetization transfer MRI, diffusion-weighted MRI, MR spectroscopy, functional MRI, cell-specific MRI, perfusion MRI, and microscopic imaging with ultra-high field MRI, offer an extraordinarily powerful means of gaining fundamental in vivo insights into disease processes. The strengths and weaknesses of all these techniques in the study of multiple sclerosis and other relevant diseases are extensively considered. After an introductory section on neuroimaging technology, subsequent sections address disorders of myelination, demyelinating diseases, immune-mediated disorders, and white matter disorders related to aging and other conditions. This book provides a valuable summary of the state of the art in the field, and defines important areas for future research.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 496 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized. It offers concise and complete descriptions of some 5,000 enzymes and their application areas. Data sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence and the volumes themselves are arranged according to enzyme classes.This new, second edition reflects considerable progress in enzymology: many enzymes are newly classified or reclassified. Each entry is correlated with references and one or more source organisms. New datafields are created: application and engineering (for the properties of enzymes where the sequence has been changed). The total amount of material contained in the Handbook has more than doubled so that the complete second edition consists of 39 volumes as well as a Synonym Index. In addition, starting in 2009, all newly classified enzymes are treated in Supplement Volumes.Springer Handbook of Enzymes is an ideal source of information for researchers in biochemistry, biotechnology, organic and analytical chemistry, and food sciences, as well as for medicinal applications. 744 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation to write the foreword for Drugs and Poisons in Humans. A Handbook of Practical Analysis. Dr. Osamu Suzuki and Dr. Mikio Yashiki, two outstanding Japanese scientists, f rst published the Handbook in Japanese in 2002. Specialists throughout Japan contributed analytical methods for a wide variety of therapeutic and illicit drugs, pesticides, and natural toxins and alkaloids. In fact, rarely has such a wide spectrum of analytes and metabolites been addressed within a single reference manual. At the beginning of the book, general topics are addressed, including instructions on h- dling biological materials, measurement of drugs in alternative specimens, and guidance on resolving analytical problems that may occur. T ere are discussions of extraction modalities and detection methodologies and how to select these appropriately based on the physioche- cal characteristics of the drug. Analysis of specif c classes of drugs and relevant metabolites are covered in subsequent chapters. Clinical, analytical and forensic toxicology and clinical ch- istry laboratories will f nd the volume informative and useful. Toxicologists are of en faced with developing methods for new drugs and metabolites with little information available in the literature. T is book provides a great starting point for method development providing pro- dures that have been utilized in real life situations. In addition, toxicologists developing new methodologies may use this volume as a guide to selecting the most appropriate instrumen- tion to handle the breadth of their analytical workload.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 696 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Naturally occurring RNA always contains numerous biochemically altered nucleotides. They are formed by enzymatic modification of the primary transcripts during the complex RNA maturation process designated RNA modification. A large number of enzymes catalyzing the formation of these modified nucleosides or converting one canonical base into another at the posttranscriptional level have been studied for many years, but only recently have systematic and comparative studies begun. The functions of individual enzymes and/or the modified/edited nucleosides in RNA, however, have remained largely ignored.This book provides advance information on RNA modification, including the associated editing machinery, while offering the reader some perspective on the significance of such modifications in fine-tuning the structure and functions of mature RNA molecules and hence the ability to influence the efficiency and accuracy of genetic expression. Outstanding scientists who are actively working on RNA modification/editing processes have provided up-to-date information on these intriguing cellular processes that have been generated over the course of millions of years in all living organisms. Each review has been written and illustrated for a large audience of readers, not only specialists in the field, but also for advanced students or researchers who want to learn more about recent progress in RNA modification and editing. 472 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -F.P. Schmidtchen: Artificial Host Molecules for the Sensing of Anions.- I. Stibor, P. Zlatusková: Chiral Recognition of Anions.- P. Lhoták: Anion Receptors Based on Calixarenes.- F. Davis, S.D. Collyer, S.P.J. Higson: The Construction and Operation of Anion Sensors - Current Status and Future Perspectives.- P.D. Beer, S.R. Bayly: Anion Sensing by Metal-Based Receptors.- C. Suksai, T. Tuntutlani: Chromogenetic Anion Sensors.- R.J.T. Houk, S.L. Tobey, E.V. Anslyn: Abiotic Guanidinium Receptors for Anion Molecular Recognition and Sensing. 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Im ärztlich-medizinischen Berufsfeld wird häufig unterschätzt, wie eng körperliche Krankheiten mit psychischen Vorgängen verknüpft sind. Das Fachgebiet der medizinischen Psychologie setzt an den zahlreichen Berührungspunkten zwischen Medizin und Psychologie an: den Auswirkungen körperlicher Erkrankungen oder medizinischer Eingriffe auf das psychische Erleben und Befinden, den Einfluss psychischer Zustände auf Entstehung und Verlauf von Erkrankungen oder die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen zwischen Ärzten, Patienten und Angehörigen. In diesem Buch beleuchten führende Vertreter des Faches solche medizinpsychologischen Fragen und Erkenntnisse erstmals getrennt für spezifische, medizinische Anwendungsgebiete: Was hat die Psychologie u.a. zur Onkologie, Kardiologie, Zahnmedizin, Augenheilkunde oder auch zu Themen wie 'Sterben, Tod und Trauern' und 'Telemedizin' zu sagen Wie tragen z.B. psychische Faktoren zur Entstehung einer Herzinsuffizienz oder der Migräne bei Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Fallsammlung richtet sich vornehmlich an Studenten und Referendare der Wahlfachgruppe 'Wirtschaftsrecht'. Das Werk dient der Einarbeitung und Vervollkommnung der Fallbearbeitungstechnik. Insbesondere wird der Fokus auf eine Synthese von materiellem und prozessualem Recht gelegt. Inhaltlich gesehen werden die Bereiche des Urheberrechts, Wettbewerbsrechts, Kartellrechts, Markenrechts und Patentrechts abgedeckt. Um eine weitere eigenständige Wissensvertiefung zu ermöglichen und zu gewährleisten, werden am Ende der jeweiligen Fallbearbeitung weiterführende Literaturhinweise zu den jeweiligen Problemkomplexen gegeben.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die C++-Standardbibliothek, deren interessantester Teil die Standard Template Library (STL) ist, revolutioniert die C++-Programmierung. Der korrekte und effiziente Einsatz stellt eine große Herausforderung dar, die nur mit fundiertem Wissen zu meistern ist. In diesem Buch wird die Funktionsweise und Implementierung der einzelnen Komponenten (Container, Iteratoren, Algorithmen, Funktionsobjekte, Strings, Streams usw.) verständlich und detailliert erklärt, wobei typische Stolpersteine aufgezeigt werden. Zahlreiche, mit gängigen C++-Compilern getestete Programmbeispiele demonstrieren den praktischen Einsatz. Antworten auf Standardfragen sowie unzählige Tipps und Tricks machen das Buch zu einem nützlichen Ratgeber für den alltäglichen Gebrauch. Anhand von anspruchsvollen Aufgaben und deren Lösungen kann das erworbene Wissen überprüft und vertieft werden. Der komplette Programmcode ist im Internet verfügbar. Ein ausführlicher Index ermöglicht gezieltes Nachschlagen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 440 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Technische Gase werden in fast allen Bereichen der Industrie, Wissenschaft und Medizin sowie zur Kontrolle durch staatliche Ämter und Institutionen eingesetzt. In diesem Handbuch werden die physikalischen Grundlagen von reinsten Gasen und Gemischen sowie deren Herstellung, Reinigung, Analyse, Lagerung und Transport umfassend dargestellt. Datenblätter der wichtigsten reinsten Gase ergänzen dieses wichtige Nachschlagewerk.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 452 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der dritte Band hat als Hauptthema die systemischen Knochenerkrankungen, die entzündlichen und degenerativen Gelenkerkrankungen und Erkrankungen der Weichteile. Unter Verwendung eines hervorragenden Bildmaterials werden die angeborenen und erworbenen sklerosierenden Knochenerkrankungen, die metabolischen und hämatologischen Systemerkrankungen, trophische Störungen inklusive Nekrose und die Erkrankungen des Periosts dargestellt. Das umfangreiche Kapitel über die rheumatischen Erkrankungen bewahrt die Tradition der subtilen projektionsradiographischen Diagnostik, verfeinert und vertieft durch aktuelle Ergebnisse einer magnetresonanztomographischen Weichteil- und Knochendiagnostik. Die Kapitel über die (Kristall-)Arthropathien leiten zu den degenerativen Gelenk- und Wirbelsäulenerkrankungen über, die einen wesentlichen und zunehmenden Stellenwert in der radiologischen Diagnostik einnehmen. Schließlich folgen noch ausführliche Kapitel zu Erkrankungen der Weichteile einschließlich ihrer Tumoren.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 512 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -U.H.F. Bunz: Synthesis and Structure of PAEs.- E. Klemm, T. Pautzsch, L. Blankenburg: Organometallic PAEs.- C.R. Ray, J.S. Moore: Supramolecular Organization of Foldable Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers.- J. Zheng, T.M. Swager: Poly(arylene ethynylene)s in Chemosensing and Biosensing.- T. Yamamoto, I. Yamaguchi, T. Yasuda: PAEs with Heteroaromatic Rings.- G. Voskerician, C. Weder: Electronic Properties of PAEs.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Covers ETFs - the hottest investment product of the new century.Explains the nature of this new investment class and all advantages of these instruments.Provides a deep insight into the market and the development of that asset class during the past ten years.Some of the information in this book is usually limited to institutional investors with access to research data bases.All of the contributions have been made by professional investment consultants to give a first hand insight into the matter. 268 pp. Englisch.