springer nature nov 1991 (16 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One Systems, Processes and the Role of Process Control Hardware.- 1 Signals, systems and process control.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 A system approach to process control systems.- 1.3 Signals.- 1.4 Systems.- 1.5 The basic analytical concept of process control systems.- References.- 2 The basic process unit.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The basic process unit.- 2.3 Basic process unit data processing.- 2.4 Process hardware for data input.- 2.5 Process hardware for data output.- 2.6 Auxiliary data for process control.- References.- 3 Stratification of control tasks and data communication.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Stratification of computer tasks.- 3.3 Control levels and computer input/output hardware.- 3.4 Characteristics of process control computer systems.- 3.5 A survey of process control computer hardware.- 3.6 Communication codes and circuits.- 3.7 Channel capacity.- 3.8 Types of connection and communication hardware.- 3.9 Practical suggestions and recommendations.- 3.10 Open-ended communication in process control.- 3.11 Communication of smart process devices.- References.- Two The Role of Software in Process Control Systems.- 4 The relative roles of software and hardware.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Data processing.- 4.3 Software for process control data processing.- 4.4 Software versus hardware.- References.- 5 System software.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Basic concepts of real-time operating systems.- 5.3 Structure and functions of real-time operating systems.- 5.4 Data and symbols for the operating systems.- 5.5 System software.- 5.6 Cost, safety and reliability of operating system software.- References.- 6 Application programs and databases.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Application program tasks.- 6.3 Structure and timing requirement of application programs.- 6.4 Database and basic process software.- 6.5 Distributed database.- 6.6 Extended real-time software.- References.- Three The Man-Machine Interface.- 7 Reduction and visualization of data and procedures.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Operator-system communication.- 7.3 Visualization and data logging.- 7.4 Recognition of process states.- References.- 8 Process management and control.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Process states.- 8.3 Operator/process interaction - actions, commands and timing.- 8.4 Process protection and automatic actions.- References.- 9 The role of the operator in process control systems.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 Formalization of the operator's role.- 9.3 Artificial inferencing tools - expert systems for process supervision and diagnostics.- 9.4 Controlling the operator's work using a process control system.- 9.5 The operator's reaction to process control systems.- 9.6 The limits of the operator's function.- References.- Four System Design.- 10 The feasibility study.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Data volumes and flows.- 10.3 Stratification of process control and basic system design.- 10.4 Cost/benefit analysis.- 10.5 Benefits.- References.- 11 Computer control system design.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 Communication design.- 11.3 Data transmission units.- 11.4 Designing control and dispatching centres.- 12 Cost-effective system selection.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 Buying and testing hardware.- 12.3 Designing and testing software.- 12.4 Human factors in system assembly.- 12.5 Programming teams.- References.- 13 The integrated approach.- 13.1 Introduction.- 13.2 Mounting and installation procedure.- 13.3 Testing and reliability.- 13.4 System commissioning.- 13.5 Commissioning and safety.- 13.6 Training personnel.- 13.7 Maintenance.- References.- Author index.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Comparative fore-gut morphology of Antarctic Amphipoda (Crustacea) adapted to different food sources.- Methods for the study of amphipod swimming: behavior, morphology, and fluid dynamics.- Is the oostegite structure of amphipods determined by their phylogeny or is it an adaptation to their environment .- The distribution and frequency of the type II microtrichs in somen gammaridean amphipods.- What can vicariance biogeographic models tell us about the distributional history of subterranean amphipods .- Actual state of gammaridean taxonomy and catalogue of species from Chile.- Gammaridean and caprellidean fauna from Brazil.- Amphipods from hydrotechnical structures in the north-western part of the Black Sea.- Structure of a suprabenthic shelf sub-community of gammaridean Amphipoda in the Bay of Fundy compared with similar sub-communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.- Amphipod crustaceans as an important component of zoobenthos of the shallow Antarctic sublittoral.- Patterns of abundance of exoedicerotid amphipods on sandy beaches near Sydney, Australia.- Local distributions of sandhoppers and landhoppers (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) in the coastal zone of western Tasmania.- Ingestion of live filamentous diatoms by the Great Lakes amphipod, Diporeia sp.: a case study of the limited value of gut contents analysis.- A comparison of water loss and gill areas in two supralittoral amphipods from New Zealand.- Lack of oxygen and low pH as limiting factors for Gammarus in Hessian brooks and rivers.- Volumetric growth in gammaridean Amphipoda.- Respiration of Orchomene plebs (Hurley, 1965) and Waldeckia obesa (Chevreux, 1905) from Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands, Antarctic).- Eco-physiological characteristics of some common caprellid species in the Possjet Bay (Japan Sea).- A review of the reproductive bionomics of aquatic gammaridean amphipods: variation of life history traits with latitude, depth, aquatic salinity and superfamily.- Two types of maternal care for juveniles observed in Caprella monoceros Mayer, 1890 and Caprella decipiens Mayer, 1890 (Amphipoda: Caprellidae).- Tube-building behavior in Grandidierella, and two species of Cerapus.- Precopulatory mating behavior and sexual dimorphism in the amphipod Crustacea.- Redescription of Caprogrammarus gurjanovae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966 (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Hokkaido, Japan, with notes on the taxonomic status of Caprogammarus.- A new marine interstitial ingolfiellid (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Ingolfiellidea) from Tenerife and Hierro.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I-Puzzles Problems and Paradoxes.- One Conceptions of Vagueness.- 1.1 Frege's Metaphor and The Sorites Paradox.- 1.2 The Vehicle of Vagueness.- 1.3 Something Else to do with Vagueness.- 1.4 Intensional and Extensional Vagueness.- 1.5 Commitments.- 1.6 Fregean Vagueness.- 1.7 The Evidence for Fregean Vagueness.- 2 Linguistic Behaviour.- 2.1 The Myths of Consensus and Determinacy.- 2.2 Statistical Regularities and Semantic Determinacy.- 2.3 Vagueness and Convention.- 2.4 Vagueness and Truth Theory.- 3 Approaches to Vagueness.- 3.1 Borderline Cases, Bivalence and Higher Order Vagueness.- 3.2 Bivalence and Excluded Middle.- 3.3 Vagueness and Logic.- 3.4 Supervaluations.- (a) Specification Spaces.- (b) External Penumbral Connexions and Uncertainty.- (c) Internal Penumbral Connexions and the Sorites.- 3.5 Approaches to Higher Order Vagueness.- (a) Fuzzy Logics.- (b) The Specification Space Approach.- (c) The Generation of Higher Order Vagueness.- II-The Sorites Paradox.- 4 The Paradox.- 4.1 The Incoherence Thesis.- 4.2 Wright's Arguments for Tolerance.- 4.3 Versions of the Paradox.- 4.4 An Empirical Assumption.- 4.5 Dummett's View of the Paradox.- 4.6 Ad Hoc Stipulation and Inconsistent Rules.- 4.7 Causal Explanations of Consistency.- 4.8 Wright's Conclusions.- 5 Responses to the Paradox.- 5.1 The Elimination of Vagueness.- 5.2 Ideal Languages, Logic and Precision.- 5.3 Rejecting Common Sense.- 5.4 Rejecting the Induction Step.- 5.5 Rejecting the Principles of Classical Logic.- 5.6 Austerity Measures.- 5.7 Paradigm Exemplars and Knowledge of Tolerance Rules.- 5.8 Vagueness and Contextual Disambiguation.- 6 A Solution to the Paradox.- 6.1 Tolerance Principles and Pure Observationality.- 6.2 Counter-examples to Tolerance.- 6.3 A Reply, and a Review of the Nature of the Sorites Series.- 6.4 Revising Tolerance Rules.- 6.5 A Way Out of the Paradox.- 6.6 Strict and Loose Tolerance Rules.- 6.7 A Parallel with the Grue Paradox.- 7 Further Problems and Puzzles.- 7.1 Is Indiscernibility Tolerant .- 7.2 Is Indiscernibility Vague .- 7.3 Inconsistency without Paradox.- 7.4 Patches in Pairs.- 7.5 The Size of the Difference.- 7.6 A Review of the Criteria of Justification.- 7.7 Conceptual and Metaphysical Miracles.- 7.8 Vagueness and Pure Observationality.- 8 Vagueness and Perception.- 8.1 A Puzzle about Perception.- 8.2 Phenomenal Qualities and Observational Predicates.- 8.3 Change of Aspect.- 8.4 Tolerance and Observationality.- 8.5 Vagueness in Perception.- 9 Conclusions.- 9.1 The Induction Step and Continua in Nature.- 9.2 The Existence of Fregean Vagueness.- 9.3 Constraints on Observer and Theorist.- 9.4 Fregean Vagueness, Loose Tolerance Rules and Undecidability.- 9.5 Vagueness as a Pragmatic Phenomenon.- 9.6 Tolerance and the Actual Language Relation.- 9.7 Bivalence, Vagueness and Truth.- 9.8 Vagueness in Language and in Psychological Phenomena.- 9.9 Vagueness, Precision and Context-Dependence.- 9.10 Classification Ranges. 220 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Background on Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- Thermodynamics and Crystal Growth of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Band Structure and Theory of Magnetic Interactions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Transport phenomena in Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- Experimental Studies of the d-d Exchange Interactions in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Bound Magnetic Polarons in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.- Magnetooptic Properties of Wide Gap II1 xMnxVI Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- II-Fe-VI Semimagnetic Semiconductors.- Semimagnetic IV-VI Compound Semiconductors.- Semimagnetic Semiconductor Superlattices.- Magnetism of Fe-Based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors. 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Leonard Davis gives the background to the 15-year-long saga of Hong Kong and the asylum seekers from Vietnam. In the run-up to 1997 there has been increasing tension associated with the presence of 50,000 Vietnamese men, women and children in Hong Kong. The principal themes of the book cover screening and repatriation, the violence in the detention centres, the plight of children and the urgent need for the international community to be more generous to the refugees. 255 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -War must be regarded as an institution which has evolved over time. If it's incidence is to be reduced, the forces that maintain it as an institution must be understood. In this book the nature of war and the factors that sustain it are considered from diverse perspectives - anthropology, history, political science, theology, philosophy, international law, economics, psychiatry and biology. 253 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book uses the levels of analysis approach first developed by Japanese political economist Kozo Uno to theorize stages of capitalist development. Stage theory is understood as a mid-range theory informed both by the theory of a purely capitalist society and by historical analysis. The four stages of mercantilism, liberalism, imperialism, and consumerism are theorized according to an abstract type of capital accumulation, which is understood broadly to include mutually supporting economic, ideological, legal, and political practices. 325 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The past few years have witnessed changes which will be of lasting significance in international affairs. The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, for example, are fundamental not only for those societies but also in their implications for the rest of the world. They signal the passing of the international order that has governed the post war era. Since the United States was the principal architect of that order, its passing will have fundamental implications for America's role in the modern world. It has been suggested that this transformation will reduce the US to the status of an ordinary country, indeed that the signs of decline are already everywhere apparent. In this book, the author argues to the contrary that the emerging new world order offers great opportunities to the US to maintain its status as the leading power in the world. 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The authors argue clearly and convincingly in this book that the debt crisis which has plagued the world economy for the past ten years is due to the inherent fragility of financial markets. Governments, financial institutions and borrowers, including developing countries, have simply expected too much from these markets. In a world of volatile interest rates, exchange rates and uncertain government policy, it is virtually impossible for financial institutions to effectively distinguish fundamental shifts in economic activity from random shocks. 211 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collected volume of essays focuses on two complementary themes: firstly, the theoretical approaches to the study of European Political Cooperation; and secondly, the empirical analysis of EPC activity. The volume does not argue one particular approach to the study of EPC, but rather presents competing, and often conflicting, theoretical perspectives. At the empirical level, a future research agenda is suggested and it is argued that EPC research should become comparative in nature. 209 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Green-Revolution' technologies have transformed the countryside of many less developed countries. This book examines the processes involved in the adoption of these new technologies and their socio-economic impact. It provides an integrated view of the effects of 'Green Revolution' technologies on economic growth and returns, distribution of income and resources, stability of agricultural production and returns and their sustainability in Bangladesh. 322 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -If imagination is understood to be a human response to the self-revelation of God, what practical results might this have for the work both of literary criticism and theology Both theologians and creative writers find human existence to be characterised by basic tension between freedom and limit, which accounts for a sense of 'fallenness', and which a dialogue between literature and Christian doctrine can do much to illuminate. Such a dialogue is worked out in studies of the poetry of William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the novels of D.H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch and William Golding. 269 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The ongoing globalization of financial markets has increased the import ance to users of financial services, policy-makers and financial analysts of understanding the structure and operation of banking systems in other countries as well as that in their own country. This volume contributes to such an understanding. The structure and operation of the banking system are described for 10 important countries, plus the European Economic Community, under one cover. The contributing authors are knowledgable and widely respected experts. The author, or at least one of the coauthors, of each chapter is a resident of the country described. Each chapter follows a broadly similar outline, although the attention devoted to any particular area varies substantially according to authors' perceptions of its relative importance in the particular country. The chapters spotlight the similarities and differences among the structures. The volume should serve as both a handy and authoritative reference guide for practitioners, regulators and students of international banking. An early benefit of the book was an international conference held in Chicago in the fall of 1989 on the world integration of financial markets. A number of the authors of the chapters presented brief versions of their papers. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the MidAmerica Institute. The audience was primarily senior officers and regulators of financial institutions in the midwest. The conference generated considerable interest in both the subject matter and the contents of this book. 612 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Framework Science.- Polymers for Multifunctional Applications: Some General Considerations.- An Objective for Polymers with Unusual Properties: Polymers with Delocalized Electronic States.- Ceramics from Organometallic Polymers: Industrial Perspectives.- The Current State of the Art in the Synthesis of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers.- Polymer Synthesis.- Polymerization of Liquid Crystalline Monomers.- Electrosynthesis, A New Route to Disilanes, Polysilanes and Polycarbosilanes.- Catalytic Dehydro-and Dehydrosilyl-coupling: New Routes to Inorganic and Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Polymers.- Synthesis of Penta-alkoxy-and Penta-aryloxy Silicates Directly from SiO2.- Magnetic Materials.- Molecular Composites of the MPS3 Layered Inorganic Polymers: Chemistry, Magnetic, and Dielectric Properties.- Chemistry, Structures and Magnetic Properties of Mn(II)Cu(II) Molecular Compounds: Heterobinuclear Species, Ferrimagnetic Chains and Molecular-Based Ferromagnets.- Magnetic Molecular Materials.- Conducting And Electronic Materials.- Molecular Solids with Organic Conducting Chains and Inorganic Magnetic Chains: The (Per)2(mnt)2 Family. (M = Ni, Cu, Pd, Pt, Au, Fe and Co).- Selective Synthesis and Some Electroconductive Properties of Organosilicon Polymers Containing Aromatic Units.- Crystal and Electronic Structure of Cobaltacene Intercalates of the Host Lattices SnS2-xSex (x=O, 0.3, 0.5, 1.3, 1.85, 2).- Approaches to Stacked, Semi-conducting Organometallics.- Supramolecular Organization of Phthalocyanines. Design and Synthesis of Low Dimensional Conductors.- Preceramic Materials.- Synthesis and Pyrolysis Chemistry of Polymeric Precursors to SiC and Si3N4.- A Catalytic Preparation of a New Preceramic Polymer: Transformation into SiC.- Transition Metal Oxo Polymers Synthesized via Sol-Gel Chemistry.- Organically Modified Silicates as Inorganic-Organic Polymers.- Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Resonant Nonlinear Optical Excitations in Glassy Polymers.- Rigid-Rod Transition Metal Acetylide Complexes, Oligomers, and Polymers for Nonlinear Optics.- Characterization.- Spectroscopic Characterization of the Pyrolysis Process of Pre-Ceramics Polymers.- Characterisation of Metallophthalocyanine Polymers for Application as Semiconductor Gas Sensor Material.- Aspects of Polyphosphazene Photochemistry.- Characterizing the Microstructures of New Polymers.- Report To Nato.- Inorganic and Organometallic Polymer with Special Properties. Progress, Potential and Problems. 460 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Section One Cytogenetics.- 1. Chromosome Evolution in Ornamental Taxa.- 2. Aneuploidy of Ornamental Species.- 3. Protoplast Fusion and Somatic Hybridization.- 4. Techniques for Chromosomal Transformation.- 5. Chromosome Variability in Callus Produced Plants.- Section Two Quantitative Genetics.- 6. Selection for Physiological Traits.- 7. Selection for Production Traits in Flower Crops.- 8. Multi-Trait Selection in Flower Crops.- 9. Breeding for Disease and Insect Resistance in Flower Crops.- 10. Dynamics of Host-Parasite Interactions.- 11. Genetics of Variegation and Maternal Inheritance in Ornamentals.- Section Three Molecular Genetics.- 12. Molecular Aspects of Flowering.- 13. Tagging Floral Structure Genes.- 14. Engineering of Novel Flower Colours.- 15. Modulation of Flower Color and its Intensivity via Directed Gene Manipulation.- 16. Gene Expression and Flower Senescence.- 17. Molecular Aspects of the Development of Reproductive Cells.- 18. Self-Incompatibility in Flowering Plants.- 19. Routes to the Development of Disease Resistant Ornamentals. 446 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -New Perspectives in Advanced Learning Technology.- R&D on Advanced Learning Technologies in the New Framework Programme.- Cognitive and Educational Problems of the New Learning Technologies.- Educational Requirements of Vocational Training Using Expert Systems.- The Learner's View of Hypermedia.- Deep-Knowledge Acquisition for Learner Modelling in Second Language Learning.- Communications-Centred Multi-Media Learning Systems.- A Functional Architecture for Intelligent Simulation Learning Environments.- An Overview of Key Issues to the Development of a 'Learning Services based on Technology' European Market.- The Integration of Advanced Learning Technologies in Corporate Training Activities.- Pro-DELTA Portuguese Research on Delta.- The Influence of Public Policies on the Structure, Conduct and Performance of the Advanced Learning Technology Market.- Flexible Distance Learning; Barriers to Growth.- Computer-Based Training Producers: A Market for Delta R&D Products.- Educational Technologies for SME's; Problems & Ways towards solutions.- State of the art in the application of telecommunications to learning.- Eurostep: An Experiment of Crucial Importance for the Developement of Distance Education by Satellite in Europe.- Flexible Distance Learning Education for Doctors - The SATDOC Project.- Communications Infrastructure for Interactiv Video Using DBS and ISDN.- An 'Intelligent' Database System of Audio-Visual Material.- XTEC Online In-Service Teacher Training Project.- Multimedia Interactive applications & ISDN for Distant Learning.- Telecommunication in Distance Education: User-Demands and Technological Possibilities.- Learner Places for European Learning - the LAT Approach to Deriving Functions.- Information Retrieval and Interactive Learning in a Broadband Information System.- EPOS: Telecommunication in Computer-Delivered Training and Education.- Telecommunication Aspects of OLE.- Video Conferencing in a Learning Context.- Tools for Building Learner Models.- The ECAL Teaching Engine: Pragmatic AI for Education.- Artificial Intelligence: The Key to Open Learning.- Experiments on Knowledge Acquisition for Learner Modelling.- NOBILE: An Object-Based User Model Acquisition Shell.- Student Modelling Toolkits.- An Adaptive Environment for Open Learning in DELTA.- Generation and Maintenance of Computational Viewpoints in Student Models.- Belief-Based Bounded User Modelling.- Connectionist Models for Dialogue Systems.- Connectionist Models for the Simulation of Student Mistakes in Learning a Foreign Language.- Hypermedia: How Will The Author Cope .- The I.C.A.T. Project (ILVA Computer Aided Training).- An Object-Oriented Data Model for Hypermedia Systems.- Multilingual Aspects of a Multimedia Database of Learning Materials.- Perpetuating the Myth.- Next Generation Authoring Systems: Integration of Multiple Methodologies and Tools.- On the Concept of Reusability in Educational Design.- A Framework for Authoring Tool Integration.- The Relationship between PETE and PCTE.- Multi-Strategy Authoring Toolkit for Intelligent Courseware: Better Courses for Less.- Generic Tool for Courseware Authoring.- The CAMCE Project: An Environment for Cooperative and Distributed Authoring.- The DEEP Methodology for Authoring.- Authoring for Intelligent Simulation Based Instruction: A Model Based Approach.- Authoring for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Intelligent Multimedia Authoring: Advancing Towards Users in a European Context.- A Courseware Production Model which Integrates the Results of the Development Systems.- Transferring Knowledge in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.- Sociological Questions in Open Learning Standards and the Learner Environment.- Video Conference: Intercultural Learning in the Virtual Classroom.- Issues in Instructional Design for CAL: Problems and Possible Solutions.- Delta and the Back of Beyond.- European School Project: On Cultural Conversations. 768 pp. Englisch.