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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Quest¿opera, frutto del lavoro di diversi autori, tutti psichiatri appassionati di cinema, è un testo originale che testimonia la sterminata cinematografia in cui si ritrae la sofferenza psichiatrica e offre un metodo per apprendere la psicopatologia.Il libro contiene più di 130 schede di opere cinematografiche, suddivise in capitoli dedicati ad aree psicopatologiche specifiche, in cui gli autori analizzano l¿intera sceneggiatura del film ponendo grande attenzione ai sintomi, alle interpretazioni dei meccanismi psichici profondi, valorizzando al tempo stesso la clinica in tutti i suoi aspetti. Questo approccio consente al lettore di vedere i film con uno sguardo nuovo e arricchito di conoscenze.Il volume è rivolto a psicologi, psichiatri e studenti e costituisce uno strumento utile sia per la fruizione personale, sia per la formazione professionale e culturale. 204 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Questo libro parla del rapporto fra Galileo e alcuni scienziati della sua epoca comunemente considerati come esponenti dello 'schieramento avverso'. È l'epoca in cui la visione del cosmo cambia radicalmente: la cultura europea non appare più al centro della storia umana, la creazione dell'uomo si sposta all'indietro di una inimmaginabile quantità di anni e, infine, i cieli immutabili della cosmologia aristotelica, i cieli di cristallo, vengono definitivamente superati.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -La placca ateromasica rappresenta l¿elemento patogenetico principale di numerosi processi patologici a carico degli apparati cardiovascolare, cerebrovascolare e nefrovascolare.Al fine di prevenire e trattare tali patologie, che rappresentano, per frequenza nella popolazione generale, le principali cause di morte e disabilità nel mondo occidentale, appare necessaria la conoscenza dei principali meccanismi patogenetici alla base dello sviluppo della placca aterosclerotica. In questo volume viene presentata una sintesi aggiornata delle tematiche relative all¿eziopatogenesi, alla prevenzione e al trattamento dell¿aterosclerosi, dedicando ampio spazio al recente concetto di aterosclerosi come malattia infiammatoria e agli ultimi studi volti ad individuare una possibile eziopatogenesi infettiva del processo.Il testo, rivolto principalmente ai medici di Medicina Generale e agli studenti delle lauree sanitarie, vuole offrire una panoramica sulle attuali conoscenze e sulle nuove teorie formulate in questi ultimi anni. Quest¿opera rappresenta pertanto uno strumento di rapido aggiornamento con spunti interessanti per eventuali approfondimenti.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 132 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems are widely used in the standards for digital audio/video broadcasting, WiFi and WiMax. Being a frequency-domain approach to communications, OFDM has important advantages in dealing with the frequency-selective nature of high data rate wireless communication channels. As the needs for operating with higher data rates become more pressing, OFDM systems have emerged as an effective physical-layer solution. This short monograph is intended as a tutorial which highlights the deleterious aspects of the wireless channel and presents why OFDM is a good choice as a modulation that can transmit at high data rates. The system-level approach we shall pursue will also point out the disadvantages of OFDM systems especially in the context of peak to average ratio, and carrier frequency synchronization. Finally, simulation of OFDM systems will be given due prominence. Simple MATLAB programs are provided for bit error rate simulation using a discrete-time OFDM representation. Software is also provided to simulate the effects of inter-block-interference, inter-carrier-interference and signal clipping on the error rate performance. Different components of the OFDM system are described, and detailed implementation notes are provided for the programs. The program can be downloaded here. Table of Contents: Introduction / Modeling Wireless Channels / Baseband OFDM System / Carrier Frequency Offset / Peak to Average Power Ratio / Simulation of the Performance of OFDM Systems / ConclusionsSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Evaluating biomedical technology poses a significant challenge in light of the complexity and rate of introduction in today's healthcare delivery system. Successful evaluation requires an integration of clinical medicine, science, finance, and market analysis. Little guidance, however, exists for those who must conduct comprehensive technology evaluations. The 3Q Method meets these present day needs. The 3Q Method is organized around 3 key questions dealing with 1) clinical and scientific basis, 2) financial fit and 3) strategic and expertise fit. Both healthcare providers (e.g., hospitals) and medical industry providers can use the Method to evaluate medical devices, information systems and work processes from their own perspectives. The book describes the 3Q Method in detail and provides additional suggestions for optimal presentation and report preparation. Table of Contents: Introduction / Question #1: Is It Real / Question #2: Can We Win / Question #3: Is It Worth It / 3Q CaseStudy Example -- Pershing Medical Company / Appendix A: Health Care Technology Assessment Sample Class Syllabus / Appendix B: How do Hospitals and Clinicians Get Paid / Appendix C: Technology Assessment PowerPoint Report Guidelines / Appendix D: Class Report Scenario Example / Appendix E: Four-Blocker Slide Templates for 3Q ReportsSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In his In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor of The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and many other outstanding movies, devises the Rule of Six -- six criteria for what makes a good cut. On top of his list is 'to be true to the emotion of the moment,' a quality more important than advancing the story or being rhythmically interesting. The cut has to deliver a meaningful, compelling, and emotion-rich 'experience' to the audience. Because, 'what they finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performances, not even the story---it's how they felt.' Technology for all the right reasons applies this insight to the design of interactive products and technologies -- the domain of Human-Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, and Interaction Design. It takes an experiential approach, putting experience before functionality and leaving behind oversimplified calls for ease, efficiency, and automation or shallow beautification. Instead, it explores what really matters to humans and what it needs to make technology more meaningful. The book clarifies what experience is, and highlights five crucial aspects and their implications for the design of interactive products. It provides reasons why we should bother with an experiential approach, and presents a detailed working model of experience useful for practitioners and academics alike. It closes with the particular challenges of an experiential approach for design. The book presents its view as a comprehensive, yet entertaining blend of scientific findings, design examples, and personal anecdotes. Table of Contents: Follow me! / Crucial Properties of Experience / Three Good Reasons to Consider Experience / A Model of Experience / Reflections on Experience DesignSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is a new type of transmission line. It implements a waveguide on a piece of printed circuit board by emulating the side walls of the waveguide using two rows of metal posts. It inherits the merits both from the microstrip for compact size and easy integration, and from the waveguide for low radiation loss, and thus opens another door to design efficient microwave circuits and antennas at a low cost. This book presents a two-dimensional fullwave analysis method to investigate an SIW circuit composed of metal and dielectric posts. It combines the cylindrical eigenfunction expansion and the method of moments to avoid geometrical descritization of the posts. The method is presented step-by-step, with all the necessary formulations provided for a practitioner who wants to implement this method by himself. This book covers the SIW circuit printed on either homogeneous or inhomogeneous substrate, the microstrip-to-SIW transition and the speed-up techniquefor the simulation of symmetrical SIW circuits. Different types of SIW circuits are shown and simulated using the proposed method. In addition, several slot antennas and horn antennas fabricated using the SIW technology are also given. Table of Contents: Introduction / SIW Circuits Composed of Metallic Posts / SIW Circuits with Dielectric Posts / Even-Odd Mode Analysis of a Symmetrical Circuit / Microstrip to SIW Transition and Half Mode SIW / SIW AntennasSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book describes several modules of the Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) algorithm. The authors use the Federal Standard-1016 CELP MATLAB® software to describe in detail several functions and parameter computations associated with analysis-by-synthesis linear prediction. The book begins with a description of the basics of linear prediction followed by an overview of the FS-1016 CELP algorithm. Subsequent chapters describe the various modules of the CELP algorithm in detail. In each chapter, an overall functional description of CELP modules is provided along with detailed illustrations of their MATLAB® implementation. Several code examples and plots are provided to highlight some of the key CELP concepts. Link to MATLAB® code found within the book Table of Contents: Introduction to Linear Predictive Coding / Autocorrelation Analysis and Linear Prediction / Line Spectral Frequency Computation / Spectral Distortion / The Codebook Search / The FS-1016 DecoderSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 488 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Of all the many things we can look at in the night sky, the Moon is one of the richest in its ever-changing detail, as changes in light and shadow daily transform what you can see of every feature. Whether you use binoculars, a small telescope or a large one,you will find the Moon offers new horizons rich in exploration opportunities.Moonwalk with Your Eyes guides the reader quickly through lunar basics: how to determine the lunar day and what lunar terminology you might encounter here and in other books. From there yoüll be taken on a guided visual journey that encompasses what can be seen at any given time for all levels of observers.Moonwalk with Your Eyes features high-quality annotated photographs and solid background information to help the reader understand many lunar phenomena. Here is a guide that allows those who simply gaze at the Moon to find a deeper appreciation of it; for those who use binoculars and small telescopes, this is a comprehensive guide to identifying what can be seen; and advanced observers will be challenged with a rare quality look at areas of the Moon that are not covered by other lunar guide books.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -L¿uretere è un organo deputato unicamente al collegamento tra il rene e la vescica. Per la delicatezza della sua struttura anatomica e per la sua estensione in lunghezza che ne condiziona complessi rapporti anatomici con molti altri organi, detiene una fragilità intrinseca alla patologia propria, offre scarsa difesa al coinvolgimento da parte delle patologie di organi vicini ed è predisponibile ai traumi chirurgici ed endoscopici. Nella pratica clinica, queste caratteristiche vengono non infrequentemente sottovalutate, esponendo l¿organo a pericolose sequele.Inoltre, lo sviluppo e la diffusione delle tecniche endourologiche, se da un lato rappresenta un brillante esempio di chirurgia mininvasiva, dall¿altro ha , aumentato le possibilità di danno iatrogeno in corso o successivo alle manovre stesse.La monografia, dopo gli indispensabili capitoli sull¿embriologia, l¿anatomia, la fisiologia e la fisiopatologia dell¿organo, offre la trattazione sistematica di tutti i capitoli della patologia ureterale, per la prima volta affrontati 'dal punto di vista dell¿uretere'. L¿intento è quello di evidenziare il suo ruolo diretto nelle malattie di apparato e di far risaltare l¿importanza della rilevazione sintomatologica nei casi di coinvolgimento - piuttosto frequente - da parte di patologie viciniori o come conseguenza di svariate procedure chirurgiche.La metodica della introduzione di tricks and tips tende a evidenziare le criticità e a offrire suggerimenti clinici per prevenirle o superarle. Il volume sarà dunque un utile strumento di lavoro per urologi, ginecologi, chirurghi generali, pediatrici e vascolari nella loro attività quotidiana. 208 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Disturbo di personalità borderline è un testo conciso, chiaro, e prevalentemente pratico, che offre un prezioso aggiornamento ai professionisti della salute mentale soddisfacendo contemporaneamente la grande richiesta di informazione e supporto che proviene dagli stessi pazienti e dalle loro famiglie e amici. I capitoli dedicati alla famiglia danno voce ad esperienze vissute, rinforzando la speranza che il coinvolgimento del gruppo familiare nella terapia possa essere di beneficio per tutti.Questo volume, allo stesso tempo professionale e divulgativo, raccoglie i lungimiranti e aggiornati punti di vista di 15 esperti. Questi autori offrono un nuovo modo di interpretare il DPB, suggerendo che fattori genetici ed eventi stressanti possono combinarsi per scatenare la sua insorgenza; portano inoltre nuove evidenze a supporto dei benefici ottenuti con specifiche terapie farmacologiche e diverse forma di psicoterapia, tra cui la terapia comportamentale dialettica. Per finire, offrono nuove risorse alle famiglie per aiutarle a rapportarsi con le sregolate emozioni delle persone affette da queste disturbo e a costruire degli efficaci sistemi di supporto per se stesse.Il testo si concentra soprattutto sull¿importanza dell¿alleanza tra gli operatori della salute mentale e le famiglie dei pazienti affetti da DPB, sui vantaggi che tale collaborazione può portare nella comprensione e nel trattamento di questo disturbo , offrendo nel contempo a tutte le parti coinvolte una grande speranza per il futuro. 176 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch behandelt die Optimierungsphase von Übersetzern. In dieser Phase werden Programme zur Effizienzsteigerung transformiert. Damit die Semantik der Programme bei diesen Transformationen erhalten bleibt, müssen jeweils zugehörige Anwendbarkeitsbedingungen erfüllt sein. Diese werden mittels statischer Analyse der Programme überprüft. In diesem Buch werden Analysen und Transformationen imperativer und funktionaler Programme systematisch beschrieben. Neben einer detaillierten Beschreibung wichtiger Optimierungen bietet das Buch eine knappe Einführung in die erforderlichen Konzepte und Methoden zur operationalen Semantik, zu vollständigen Verbänden und Fixpunktalgorithmen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Il fuoco di Sant'Antonio è una malattia, certo! Ma quale Per noi Italiani è sicuramente l'Herpes zoster; ma è sempre stato così Ebbene, no!Sant'Antonio Abate aveva la fama di taumaturgo e guaritore già in vita, nonostante si fosse ritirato in un remoto deserto. Così, quando le sue spoglie arrivarono in Europa dopo l'anno Mille, tutti coloro che soffrivano di malattie dolorose e urenti, imploravano Sant'Antonio che li guarisse da quel 'fuoco' che li tormentava.Ma quali erano queste malattie così dolorose Le antiche cronache sono spesso troppo succinte o troppo romanzate per orientarci nella diagnosi ma erisipela, sifilide, ergotismo hanno fatto certamente buona compagnia allo zoster.L'ergotismo, soprattutto, era una malattia terrorizzante perché compariva ad ondate imprevedibili e, come la peste, colpiva i virtuosi come i viziosi, scardinando l'interpretazione allora dominante, del dolore come conseguenza del peccato. Come se non bastasse, l'ergotismo non solo provocava terribili sofferenze ma spesso anche stati di confusione mentale e di delirio che erano (questi sì!) sicuramente attribuiti al demonio.Bisogna aspettare il XVIII secolo e l'età dei Lumi per mandare in soffitta le superstizioni che infestavano la medicina ed allora l'ergotismo si rivela essere non più una maledizione ma una solo una malattia, un effetto del consumo di pane nero alloiatoLo studio degli allucinogeni e la scoperta dell'LSD nel XX secolo, mettono la parola fine all'interpretazione mistico-religiosa di alcune patologie e gettano inaspettatamente nuova luce su quello che fu il segreto meglio custodito dell'Antichità: il culto dei Misteri Eleusini.In questo libro, la storia del fuoco di Sant'Antonio di dipana dai racconti medioevali sino all'odierna virologia e suggerisce che la curiosità e la scienza sono l'unico antidoto contro la superstizione e il mistero.Un filo rosso unisce i Misteri Eleusini al Fuoco di Sant'Antonio: questo filo è l'LSD. La molecola è la stessa ma il contorno è molto diverso e, di sicuro, molto appassionante.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements. The purpose of this book is focused primarily on mathematical models of the horizontal saccadic eye movement system and the smooth pursuit system, rather than on how visual information is processed. A saccade is a fast eye movement used to acquire a target by placing the image of the target on the fovea. Smooth pursuit is a slow eye movement used to track a target as it moves by keeping the target on the fovea. The vestibular ocular movement is used to keep the eyes on a target during brief head movements. The optokinetic eye movement is a combination of saccadic and slow eye movements that keeps a full-field image stable on the retina during sustained head rotation. Each of these movements is a conjugate eye movement, that is, movements of both eyes together driven by a common neural source. A vergence movement is a non-conjugate eye movement allowing the eyes to track targets as they come closer or farther away. In this book, early models of saccades and smooth pursuit are presented. The smooth pursuit system allows tracking of a slow moving target to maintain its position on the fovea. Models of the smooth pursuit have been developed using systems control theory, all involving a negative feedback control system that includes a time delay, controller and plant in the forward loop, with unity feedback. The oculomotor plant and saccade generator are the basic elements of the saccadic system. The oculomotor plant consists of three muscle pairs and the eyeball. A number of oculomotor plant models are described here beginning with the Westheimer model published in 1954, and up through our 1995 model involving a 4$^{th}$ order oculomotor plant model. The work presented here is not an exhaustive coverage of the field, but focused on the interests of the author. In Part II, a state-of-art model of the saccade system is presented, including a neural network that controls the system. Table of Contents: Introduction / Smooth Pursuit Models / Early Models of the Horizontal Saccadic Eye Movement System / Velocity and Acceleration Estimation / 1995 Linear Homeomorphic Saccadic Eye Movement ModelSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements. The purpose of this book is focused primarily on mathematical models of the horizontal saccadic eye movement system and the smooth pursuit system, rather than on how visual information is processed. A saccade is a fast eye movement used to acquire a target by placing the image of the target on the fovea. Smooth pursuit is a slow eye movement used to track a target as it moves by keeping the target on the fovea. The vestibular ocular movement is used to keep the eyes on a target during brief head movements. The optokinetic eye movement is a combination of saccadic and slow eye movements that keeps a full-field image stable on the retina during sustained head rotation. Each of these movements is a conjugate eye movement, that is, movements of both eyes together driven by a common neural source. A vergence movement is a non-conjugate eye movement allowing the eyes to track targets as they come closer or farther away. In this book, a 2009 version of a state-of-the-art model is presented for horizontal saccades that is 3rd-order and linear, and controlled by a physiologically based time-optimal neural network. The oculomotor plant and saccade generator are the basic elements of the saccadic system. The control of saccades is initiated by the superior colliculus and terminated by the cerebellar fastigial nucleus, and involves a complex neural circuit in the mid brain. This book is the second part of a book series on models of horizontal eye movements. Table of Contents: 2009 Linear Homeomorphic Saccadic Eye Movement Model and Post-Saccade Behavior: Dynamic and Glissadic Overshoot / Neural Network for the Saccade ControllerSpringer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Persistent organic contaminants, which are bioaccumulative and toxic are a concern for the ecosystems and human health and are regulated under international law (global and regional conventions, besides other). If semivolatile, they cycle in different environmental compartments and follow complex transport pathways. The ocean is believed to play a key role in the cycling by accumulating and storing the contaminant and providing a transport medium. But substance fate in the marine environment is not fully understood yet. Here, the global multicompartment chemistry-transport model MPI-MCTM is used to study the fate of organic pollutants in the marine and total environment. For the first time historical emission data are used in spatially-resolved long-term simulations of an insecticide, DDT, and an industrial chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The model results give new insights into the cycling of these substances as different spatial and process resolutions were tested. E.g. for DDT the model results show saturation and reversal of air-sea exchange, which was not indicated by any other study before.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks 2010 (EWSN 2010). As the field of wireless sensor networks matures, new design concepts, experim- tal and theoretical findings, and applications have continued to emerge at a rapid pace. As one of the leading international conferences in this area, EWSN has played a s- stantial role in the dissemination of innovative research ideas from researchers all over the globe. EWSN 2010 was organized by the University of Coimbra, Portugal, during February 17¿19, 2010 and it was the seventh meeting in this series. Previous events were held in Berlin (Germany) in 2004, Istanbul (Turkey) in 2005, Zurich (Switz- land) in 2006, Delft (The Netherlands) in 2007, and Cork (Ireland) in 2009. A high-quality selection of papers made up EWSN 2010. Based on the reviews and the recommendations from the four live TPC discussions, we selected a total of 21 papers from 109 submissions (19.26% acceptance rate) for EWSN 2010. Topics of interest included hardware design and implementation, operating systems and so- ware, middleware and macroprogramming, communication and network protocols, information and signal processing, fundamental theoretical limits and algorithms, prototypes, field experiments, testbeds, novel applications, including urban sensing, security and fault-tolerance. Putting together EWSN 2010 was a team effort. We would like to thank the P- gram Committee members, the reviewers, our sponsors, all authors, and the Organ- ing Committee for their respective contributions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Organizers OlegDavydov,Glasgow,UK TorDokken,Oslo,Norway BinHan,Edmonton,Canada ChuckHansen,SaltLakeCity,USA RimvydasKrasauskas,Vilnius,Lithuania TrondKvamsdal,Trondheim,Norway CarlaManni,Rome,Italy Sponsoring Institutions DepartmentofInformatics,UniversityofOslo CentreofMathematicsforApplications,UniversityofOslo ResearchCouncilofNorway Table of Contents MMCS 2008 Partial Di erential Equations for Interpolation and Compression of Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Egil Bae and Joachim Weickert Construction of Rational Curves with Rational Rotation-Minimizing Frames via Mob ¿ ius Transformations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Michael Barton, Bert Juttl ¿ er, and Wenping Wang Fat Arcs for Implicitly De ned Curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Szilvia B¿ ela and Bert Juttl ¿ er Geometric Properties of the Adaptive Delaunay Tessellation. . . . . . . . . . . 41 Tom Bobach, Alexandru Constantiniu, Paul Steinmann, and Georg Umlauf Quadrangular Parameterization for Reverse Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 David Bommes, Tobias Vossemer, and Leif Kobbelt A Comparison of Three Commodity-Level Parallel Architectures: Multi-core CPU, Cell BE and GPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Andr¿ e Rigland Brodtkorb and Trond Runar Hagen Mean Distance from a Curve to Its Control Polygon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Jesu ¿s Carnicer and Jorge Delgado Compactly Supported Splines with Tension Properties on a Three-Direction Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 456 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Making the most ef cient use of computer systems has rapidly become a leading topic of interest for the computer industry and its customers alike. However, the focus of these discussions is often on single, isolated, and speci c architectural and technological improvements for power reduction and conservation, while ignoring the fact that power ef ciency as a ratio of performance to power consumption is equally in uenced by performance improvements and architectural power red- tion. Furthermore, ef ciency can be in uenced on all levels of today¿s system hi- archies from single cores all the way to distributed Grid environments. To improve execution and power ef ciency requires progress in such diverse elds as program optimization, optimization of program scheduling, and power reduction of idling system components for all levels of the system hierarchy. Improving computer system ef ciency requires improving system performance and reducing system power consumption. To research and reach reasonable conc- sions about system performance we need to not only understand the architectures of our computer systems and the available array of code transformations for p- formance optimizations, but we also need to be able to express this understanding in performance models good enough to guide decisions about code optimizations for speci c systems. This understanding is necessary on all levels of the system hierarchy from single cores to nodes to full high performance computing (HPC) systems, and eventually to Grid environments with multiple systems and resources.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -McClelland,MichaelJ.PelsmajerandMarcusSchaefer.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 448 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -One of the major contemporary challenges in both physical and social sciences is modeling, analyzing, and understanding the self-organization, evolution, behavior, and eventual decay of complex dynamical systems ranging from cell assemblies to the human brain to animal societies. The multi-faceted problems in this domain require a wide range of methods from various scienti c disciplines. There is no question that the inclusion of time delays in complex system models considerably enriches the challenges presented by the problems. Although this inclusion often becomes inevitable as real-world applications demand more and more realistic m- els, the role of time delays in the context of complex systems so far has not attracted the interest it deserves. The present volume is an attempt toward lling this gap. There exist various useful tools for the study of complex time-delay systems. At the forefront is the mathematical theory of delay equations, a relatively mature eld in many aspects, which provides some powerful techniques for analytical inquiries, along with some other tools from statistical physics, graph theory, computer science, dynamical systems theory, probability theory, simulation and optimization software, and so on. Nevertheless, the use of these methods requires a certain synergy to address complex systems problems, especially in the presence of time delays.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -and proceedings.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -rangefromsolvingdi erentialequations,routingproblems to le type detection, object-oriented testing, agents. This year we received 48 submissions, of which 47 were sent to the reviewers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -ABZ 2010 was held in the beautiful natural setting of Orford in the Eastern Townships of Qü ebec,during February22¿25,2010,midwaythroughthe Ca- dian winter and the 21st Winter Olympics, bringing participants from all over the world to brave this rigorous climate. ABZcoversrecentadvancesinfourequallyrigorousmethodsforsoftwareand hardware development: Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B and Z. They shareacommonconceptualframework,centeredaroundthe notionsofstateand operation,andpromotemathematicalprecisioninthemodeling,veri cation,and construction of highly dependable systems. These methods have continuously matured over the past decade, reaching a stage where they have been successfully integrated into industrial practice in various areas like trains, automobiles, aerospace, smart cards, virtual machines, and business processes. Their development is in uenced by both research and practice, which mutually nurture each other. ABZ has both a long and a short history. With the aim of stimulating cro- fertilization between these four methods, it has merged their individual conf- ence and workshopseries which started in 1986 for Z, 1994 for ASM, 1996 for B, and 2006 for Alloy. The rst ABZ conference was held in London in 2008; ABZ 2010 is the second edition. The conference remains organized as four separate Program Committees.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -ThisbookpresentsselectedandrevisedpapersoftheSecondWorkshoponAd- tive and Learning Agents 2009 (ALA-09), held at the AAMAS 2009 conference in Budapest, Hungary, May 12. The goalof ALA is to provide an interdisciplinaryforum for scientists from a variety of elds such as computer science, biology, game theory and economics. This year¿s edition of ALA was the second after the merger of the former wo- shops ALAMAS and ALAg. In 2008 this joint workshop was organized for the rst time under the ag of both events. ALAMAS was a yearly returning Eu- pean workshop on adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems (held eight times). ALAg was the international workshop on adaptive and learning agents, which was usually held at AAMAS. To increase the strength, visibility and quality of the workshop it was decided to merge both workshops under the ag of ALA and to set up a Steering Committee as an organizational backbone. This book contains six papers presented during the workshop, which were carefully selected after an additional review round in the summer of 2009. We therefore wish to explicitly thank the members of the Program Committee for the quality and sincerity of their e orts and service. Furthermore we would like to thank all the members of the senior Steering Committee for making this workshop possible and supporting it with sound advice. We also thank the AAMAS conference for providing us a platform for holding this event. Finally we also wish to thank all authors who responded to our call-for-papers with interesting contributions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 152 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The study of permutation complexity can be envisioned as a new kind of symbolic dynamics whose basic blocks are ordinal patterns, that is, permutations defined by the order relations among points in the orbits of dynamical systems.Since its inception in 2002 the concept of permutation entropy has sparked a new branch of research in particular regarding the time series analysis of dynamical systems that capitalizes on the order structure of the state space. Indeed, on one hand ordinal patterns and periodic points are closely related, yet ordinal patterns are amenable to numerical methods, while periodicity is not.Another interesting feature is that since it can be shown that random (unconstrained) dynamics has no forbidden patterns with probability one, their existence can be used as a fingerprint to identify any deterministic origin of orbit generation.This book is primarily addressed to researchers working in the field of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, yet will also be suitable for graduate students interested in these subjects. The presentation is a compromise between mathematical rigor and pedagogical approach. Accordingly, some of the more mathematical background needed for more in depth understanding has been shifted into the appendices.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Noninvasive Peripheral Arterial Diagnosis' is the newest definitive text on the current techniques used in assessing vascular disorders. Readers will receive authoritative information and will be guided through the establishment and accreditation of a vascular laboratory and introduced to the physics of diagnostic testing. Chapters, written by selected experts, comprehensively explain the use of ultrasound in diagnosing cerebrovascular, renovascular, visceral ischemia and peripheral arterial disease as well as venous disorders and deep abdominal vascular conditions. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis contains over 300 illustrations, many of them in colour. Due to the special sections which give clinical correlations, this book will be invaluable to physicians who treat vascular disorders, surgeons, cardiologists, vascular radiologists and the vascular laboratory staff.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -tools are often based on, or automatically generated from, a formal description of the language.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 400 pp. Englisch.