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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a systematic view of social analysis that will advance the communication of results between different academic disciplines. It overcomes misunderstandings that are due to the use of an unstructured variety of methodological traditions in the analysis of complex socioeconomic and political processes. The book focuses on the special features of human society: humans as subjects, non-repetitiveness and irreversibility of social actions and the peculiar relations between necessity and possibility in human action. It defines methodological criteria, procedures and rules that enable researchers to select and classify realistic hypotheses to derive general principles and basic organizational features. It then applies these criteria in critical reviews of major theories and interpretations of society and history, offering clarifications and alternative proposals with regard to crucial aspects of anthropological, political, juridical, sociological and religious thought.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Magnetic Components Design and Applications is intended primarily for the circuit designer and the power processing systems designer who have found that in order to be more effective they must learn not only to use, but to design their own magnetic components. It will also be useful to the trans former engineer, by showing how to develop high-performance designs quickly and easily by employing optimization criteria. This book is a design manual, a how-to-build-it manual, and a survey of some common and state-of-the-art practices in magnetic component design and high voltage insulation. It contains the data necessary to design power transformers on a gradient scale from 60 Hz to several hundred kilohertz, conventional and air-core current transformers, power reactors, saturable transformers and saturable reactors, and air core and conventional pulse transformers. Further, it con tains essential information about dielectric materials and fabrication meth ods, basic heat transfer technology, and electric field gradient control for high voltage applications. Mathematical methods of optimization are developed, and results are given in a number of areas, particularly in the area of maximizing power den sity in power transformers and the maximization of stored energy per unit volume for power reactors. For various reasons, each chapter is written from a different starting level.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Austria.- Belgium.- Denmark.- Eire.- Finland.- France.- Germany.- Greece.- Italy.- Luxembourg.- The Netherlands.- Norway.- Portugal.- Spain.- Sweden.- Switzerland.- United Kingdom.- Alphabetical by company.- Alphabetical by country.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Every book has its own personal story and my book on the Jaqaj people is no exception. I collected my initial data at the time when the Dutch government was responsible for what is now lrian Jaya, a province of Indonesia. At the time that I worked in the field and gathered my information, I enjoyed the enduring interest and support of the late Mgr. H. Tillemans, m. s. c. , archbishop of Merauke. I wish to dedicate this book to his memory. my studies, written in Dutch, appeared in 1958 A first summary of under the tide Papoea's aan de Mappi. Further research in the area persuaded me that some of my previous views needed correction and that publication of more data was necessary as weIl. In 1969 I finished the Dutch draft of the present book. For its translation I was very fortuna te to have help of my colleague Mr. M. van Dijck. It appeared that the text was too long and had to be reduced to better, workable my homework for the following years. The final proportions. That was draft was corrected by my friend Dr. W. Beek, former teacher of English at several colleges, and finally retyped by Father A. Bodden, m. s. c. I owe all of these people my sincere thanks for the many hours spent on this work.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Arising from an examination in 1969 of the education and trammg opportumtles for paint industry technicians, it was recognized that the various courses available at that time did not fully serve their needs. While a few large companies had developed in-house training arrangements, the many medium and smaller fi.rms in the raw material supply, paint manufacturing or paint user industries, were unable to provide their own comprehensive training programs. With a view to improving this situation, an advisory committee comprising ofrepresentatives of the Australian Paint Manufacturers' Federation and the Oil and Colour Chemists' Association Australia was established to liaise directly with the New South Wales Department of Technical and Further Education. As a result plans were developed for the introduction of a Special Course in 'Surface Coatings Technology' in 1971, conducted by the Sydney Technical College. The scope of the course was designed to cover all aspects of surface coatings technology ranging from raw materials and formulations to the production, testing, evaluation, application and use of finished products. The course proved to be highly successful and in 1973 a similar syllabus was introduced by the Melboume School of Painting, Decorating and Signcrafts in Victoria. In 1980, New Zealand followed suit with a similar course conducted by the Auckland Technical Institute.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 420 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Force and motion control systems of varying degrees of sophistication have shaped the lives of all individuals living in industrialized countries all over the world, and together with communication technology are largely responsible for the high standard ofliving prevalent in many communities. The brains of the vast majority of current control systems are electronic, in the shape of computers, microprocessors or programmable logic controllers (PLC), the nerves are provided by sensors, mainly electromech anical transducers, and the muscle comprises the drive system, in most cases either electric, pneumatic or hydraulic. The factors governing the choice of the most suitable drive are the nature of the application, the performance specification, size, weight, environ mental and safety constraints, with higher power levels favouring hydraulic drives. Past experience, especially in the machine tool sector, has clearly shown that, in the face of competition from electric drives, it is difficult to make a convincing case for hydraulic drives at the bottom end of the power range, specifically at fractional horsepower level. A further, and frequently overriding factor in the choice of drive is the familiarity of the system designer with a particular discipline, which can inhibit the selection of the optimum and most cost-effective solution for a given application. One of the objectives of this book is to help the electrical engineer overcome his natural reluctance to apply any other than electric drives.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The present volurne continues the aim of Structure Reports to present critical accounts of all crystallographic structure detenninations. Details of the arrangement in the volumes, symbols used etc. are given in previous volumes (e.g. 41B or 42A, pages vi-viii). University of British Columbia J. TROTTER Vancouver, Canada 30 June 1981 [VI] STRUCTURE REPORTS SECTION I METALS Edited by L. D. Calvert (National Research Council of Canada) with the assistance of 1. K. Byron [1] 2 ARRANGEMENT As in previous volumes the arrangement in the Metals section is approximately, but not strictly, alphabetical, and to find particular substances the subject index or formula index should be used. 3 ALUMINUM BERYLLIUM BORON Al~1.lB22Be~0.8 I. HIGASHI, 1980. J. Solid State ehern., ~, 201-212. Tetragonal, P43212, a = 10.168, c = 14.262 Ä, c/a = 1.40, Dm = 2.5, Z = 8. Mo radi ation, R = 0.055 for 2253 reflexions, diffractometer data. 31 site-sets are given. Four crysta1s were studied.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Proceedings of the 83rd Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Rome, Italy, June 11-15, 1984Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Proterozoic terrains of South Scandinavia and the Grenville Province in North-America have many common features : Regional high grade metamorphism (Granulite-facies), anorthosites, etc. They are separated by the Caledonian orogeny and, above all, by the Atlantic Ocean. During the time of the great continental drift controversy, few people were ready to admit that both sides on the Atlantic were once an unique province. Now everybody agrees on the Post-paleozoic age of the Atlantic and, consequently, on the intrinsic homogeneity of the much older. rocks which occur around it. But a detailed comparison is not easy. The Grenville Province is much larger than South Scandinavia, both regions have been investigated by a great number of different schools, using various methods, approaches and concepts. After several attempts, and long discussion, it was felt by a small group of individuals, that literature study would not be enough and that nothing could re place the direct contact, in the field, of specialists who had a first hand knowledge of all involved regions. The formula of a NATO Advanced Study Institute, which gives a unique opportunity to meet and mix people of various origin and levels, came almost by itself. Much work was needed, much help has been obtained, as detailed in the 'Acknowledgements'.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 624 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This companion provides a collection of frequently needed numerical data as a convenient desk-top or pocket reference for atmospheric scientists as well as a concise source of information for others interested in this matter. The material contained in this book was extracted from the recent and the past scientific literature; it covers essentially all aspects of atmospheric chemistry. The data are presented primarily in the form of annotated tables while any explanatory text is kept to a minimum. In this condensed form of presentation, the volume may serve also as a supplement to many textbooks used in teaching the subject at various universities.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 448 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -InhaltsangabeSession I Physiological Aspects of Nutrition.- Energy requirement.- Trace element nutrition.- Vitamin D: apparent nutrient, hormone and therapeutic agent.- The implications of the membrane localization of vitamin E for its function, uptake and absorption.- Therapeutic effects of linoleic acid.- Protein and amino acids.- Carbohydrates as nutrients.- The requirements for water and salt.- Discussion.- Session II Synthetic Diets.- Synthetic diets in paediatrics.- Synthetic diet in internal medicine.- Ammonia formation in the gut and its importance in low protein diets.- The use of chemically defined elementary diets in surgery.- Synthetic diets in the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism.- Discussion.- Session III Parenteral Nutrition.- General aspects of parenteral nutrition.- Parenteral nutrition in paediatric surgery.- Parenteral nutrition in low birth weight babies.- Parenteral nutrition in low-birth weight infants.- Long-term parenteral nutrition in children.- Supplementary parenteral nutrition in internal medicine. Its effect on caloric and nitrogen balance.- Discussion.- Index of subjects.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -rai lu et relu «Rodolphe Bresdim. C'est un beau livre, obscurs-Ia question des reports sur pierre des eaux et qui aura grand sucd~s. On ne Ie refera plus; on sera fortes, celle de la metamorphose de plusieurs cuivres, oblige de toujours s'y referer. C'est serieux, precis, in celle de la premiere litho de l'artiste, catalogue 82 telligent. (Neumann n6, complete par une piece de l'ancienne Un des grands interets du livre est une chronologie collection Bonger). II etait bien place pour Ie faire, serieuse, et tres sou vent nouvelle, des gravures et etant lui-meme graveur. lith os (l'auteur a eu raison de ne pas les separer dans II tient a ce qu'on n'oublie pas que, comme son son catalogue). Van Gelder croit-et sans doute les frere aine, l'historien de l'art J. G. van Gelder, il a eu lecteurs avec lui-avoir resolu les problemes si deli pour modele son pere, grand historien, fondateur du cats du classement anterieur a 1854; apres 1854, les hesi Musee municipal de La Haye. tations etaient moins nombreuses, mais Van Gelder On a donc ici, redisons-le, un beau travail, serieux, montre qu'on ne peut se fier completement aux indi honnete, representant plus de dix ans de la vie de son cations confuses de Bresdin lui-meme. auteur, intelligent et particulierement bien informe.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Le Volume XVIII de l' Annuaire de la Convention europeenne des Droits de l'Homme concerne l'annee 1975 et suit le plan des prece dents volumes. La Premiere Partie du present volume contient, selon l'usage, les textes fondamentaux. Cette Partie contient aussi les Resolutionset Recommandations de l' Assemblee Consultative concernant les questions suivantes: conclu sions de la reunion de la Commission des questions juridiques de l' As semblee avec les Ombudsman et les commissions parlementaires dans les Etats membres du Conseil de l'Europe, mise en application de l'article 57 de la Convention europeenne des Droits de l'Homme, clauses facultatives de la Convention europeenne des Droits de l'Homme, la torture dans le monde. Elle contient egalerneut des informations sur les activites du Comite des Ministres en relation avec les droits de l'homme. Elle contient enfin des informations sur les travaux du Comite d'experts en matiere de droits de l'homme: assistance judiciaire gra tuite devant la Commission europeenne des Droits de l'Homme, ex tension du droit a la liberte d'information, contröle de l'execution des decisions de la Cour europeenne des Droits de l'Homme, Colloque du Conseil de l'Europe sur 'l'acces du public aux informations con fiees aux autorites publiques ou en possession de celles-ci'.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 476 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Law and economics can be considered as the most exciting development in legal scholarship in recent decades. This volume is the first all-encompassing bibliography in this area. It lists approximately 7000 publications, covering the whole area of law and economics, including `old' law and economics (topics such as antitrust law, labor law, tax law, social security, economic regulation, etc.) as well as `new' law and economics with such topics as tort law, contract law, family law, procedure, criminal law, etc.). The volume also includes the literature on the philosophical foundations and the fundamental concepts of the approach.Part Two gives a special survey of law and economics publications in Europe, written in other languages than English.The Bibliography of Law and Economics is an invaluable reference work for students, scholars, lawyers, economists and other people interested in this field.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 684 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is intended as a practical bench manual phological abnormalities in renal diseases, and for the hospital pathologist who wishes to have where appropriate these have been illustrated. access to a simple informative account of renal Although the main emphasis is on the pathology, pathology, particularly for the interpretation of the relevant clinical aspects of the conditions cov percutaneous needle biopsy specimens. I n addition ered are included in recognition of the fact that we trust it will be valuable to physicians working renal disease is an area in which correlation of the in the field of renal disease, for whom the interpre clinical and histopathological findings is particularly tation of renal biopsy material is directly relevant to important in reaching an informed diagnosis. patient management. Whilst a comprehensive coverage more appro priate to a larger text has not been attempted, the Acknowledgements text has been planned to give an adequate account of the more important non-neoplastic disease pro We would like to thank the technical staff of the cesses and their pathological appearances in the Histopathology Laboratories of The London Hos kidney. Points of difficulty in interpretation and dif pital Medical College, The Hospital for Sick Chil ferential diagnosis are covered both in the text and in dren, Great Ormond Street, and Guy's Hospital the illustrations.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 96 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book takes an inside-out approach to examine the broad topic of social entrepreneurship. Instead of looking inward at what social entrepreneurship is, this book looks forward from the view of successful social entrepreneurs to answer the important question, ¿Where is social entrepreneurship going next ¿ First, the volume looks at the essential qualities of social entrepreneurs, including the importance of humility as a trait in the social entrepreneur, the way in which social entrepreneurs define themselves as such, and if and how opportunity recognition differs in social and traditional entrepreneurs. Next, the volume looks at the impact of social entrepreneurial businesses on individuals but also on the supply chain, other businesses and the wider community. Next, the book explores social entrepreneurship and global change. This rare and compelling section, offers key insights and lessons in the development and promotion of social entrepreneurship in the global economy. This volume addresses both theory and research, suggesting practical solutions. It engages scholars and practitioners across disciplines in an examination and debate about various methods and approaches of enacting programs of social change.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book examines the phenomenon of immigration federalism: its main characteristics, why and how it has developed, its implications for immigration systems (in general) and non-citizens¿ rights (in particular).The book introduces the reader to theoretical perspectives on immigration federalism through three sets of literature ¿ federalism, governance and non-citizens¿ rights ¿ that provide a necessary framework for understanding immigration federalism¿s multiple facets and impacts. It also offers an analysis of immigration federalism through case studies of six jurisdictions: Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the EU and the US.Despite increased sub-national activity in immigration regulation in several federal states, very little research has been dedicated so far to comparing how federal states deal with immigration federalism. Comparative studies on the human rights implications of immigration federalism have received even less attention. This book seeks to fill the gap in this area and is an important contribution to the field, providing the reader with a better understanding of the complex issues surrounding immigration federalism and its impact on non-citizens.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Guide to the Volumes 1 & 2 MEDIUM COMPANIES OF EUROPE 1992/93, Volume 1, arrangement of the book contains useful information on nearly 4500 of the most important medium-sized companies in the European This book has been arranged in order to allow the reader to Community, excluding the UK, over 1500 companies of which find any entry rapidly and accurately. are covered in Volume 2. Volume 3 covers nearly 2000 of the medium-sized companies within Western Europe but outside Company entries are listed alphabetically within each country the European Community. Altogether the three volumes of section; in addition three indexes are provided in Volumes 1 MEDIUM COMPANIES OF EUROPE now provide in and 3 on coloured paper at the back of the books, and two authoritative detail, vital information on over 7900 key indexes in the case of Volume 2. companies in Western Europe. The alphabetical index to companies throughout the MEDIUM COMPANIES OF EUROPE 1992/93, Volumes 1 Continental EC lists all companies having entries in Volume 1 & 2 contain many of the most significant companies in in alphabetical order irrespective of their main country of Europe. The area covered by these volumes, the European operation.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 812 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing evidence for spatial and temporal climatic and environmental changes across the Asian continent since the Late Cenozoic. The dynamics underlying these changes are explored based on various bio-geological records and in particular based on the evidence of loess, speleothems as well as on mammal fossils. The Asian monsoon-arid climate system which quantifies the controlling mechanisms of climate change and the way it operates in different time scales is described. Attempts to differentiate between natural change and human-induced effects, which will help guide policies and countermeasures designed to support sustainable development on the Chinese Loess Plateau and the arid west.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 604 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 684 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become the recognized instrument to assess the ecological burdens and human health impacts connected with the complete life cycle (creation, use, end-of-life) of products, processes and activities, enabling the assessor to model the entire system from which products are derived or in which processes and activities operate. This volume introduces the major new book series LCA Compendium - The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment. In this volume, the main drivers in the development of LCA are explored. The volume also discusses strengths and limitations in LCA as well as challenges and gaps, thus offering an unbiased picture of the state-of-the-art and future of LCA.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 276 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -When we first contemplated a book on this subject we were faced with a number of options: (a) to write it all ourselves, which would have had the merit of internal consistency and continuity of style; (b) to produce a collection of existing papers. which would have given us expert views in the various sub-fields of the economics of nuclear energy and would have put us in the position of knowing from the start exactly what the authors' contribu tions would be: (c) to commission contributions from individual specialists, chapter by chapter; or (d) some combination of these options. We settled for the last - we have written some of the material ourselves, have obtained permission to use some existing papers that seem to us to be valuable contributions to the subject, and have been fortunate in persuading a number of eminent people in their fields to produce papers especially for the book. This has given us a great deal of work and taken up more time than we planned for but we believe the result justifies this time and effort. It enabled us to design a structure for the book from the outset, recognizing that there are several aspects to the economics of nuclear energy - especially if we take a broad view of what is embraced by the word 'economics'.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 436 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book represents a cutting-edge contribution giving an all-around perspective of eco-immunology today. Beside questions of the utmost importance for the whole community of immunologists, e.g, the intrinsic limits of immunological experiments performed at the bench on a limited number of selected models, the book covers several other facets of the eco-immunological approach, including host-parasite interactions, human aging and population immunology. Throughout the book the importance of population dynamics and evolutionary diversification of immune systems is frequently recalled, and makes the reader aware of the basic similarities and differences existing between humans and the models adopted for studying human immune system. The evidenced differences have been recently challenging the reliability of several established animal models and in the book it is discussed for the first time in analytical terms whether mice are reliable models of human inflammatory disorders.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This work deals with numerical simulations of fresh concrete flows. After the first introductory chapter dealing with the various physical phenomena involved in flows of fresh cementitious materials,the aim of the second chapter is to give an overview of the work carried out on simulation of flow of cement-based materials using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This includes governing equations, constitutive equations, analytical and numerical solutions, and examples showing simulations of testing, mixing and castings. The third chapter focuses on the application of Discrete Element Method (DEM) in simulating the flow of fresh concrete. The fourth chapter is an introductory text about numerical errors both in CFD and DEM whereas the fifth and last chapter give some recent examples of numerical simulations developed by various authors in order to simulate the presence of grains or fibers in a non-Newtonian cement matrix.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called ¿value-space¿. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, residing in and derived from self and society, are projected onto the environment.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A Partial Solution of the Marginal Problem.- Empirical Estimates in Stochastic Programming.- An Axiomatic Characterization of J-Divergence.- The Method of Word Synchronization in Alphabetic Codes for the Digital Transmission Systems.- On the Asymptotic Approach to Time Series Recognition.- Random Coefficient AR(1) Process.- Exact Slopes for Kolmogorov-L¿ Type Statistics.- Knowledge Preprocessing for Intensional-Type Expert Systems.- Some Results and Counterexamples.- On the Optimality of ( , S)-Strategies in an Inventory Model with Uncompletely Known Demand Distribution.- On a Derivation of Probability Density Functions. The PDF of Greenwood¿s Statistic.- On the Diffusion Approximation of the Generalized Stein¿s Neuronal Model With Synaptic Reversal.- Bounds for the r-th Absolute Moment of a Difference of two Random Variables.- On Cooperative Games Arising From a Problem of Fair Division.- A Cramer-Rao Type Inequality for a Convex Loss Function.- Decision Making in Identification of Random Fields.- Zur Dynamischen Optimierung in Zeitdiskreten Stochastischen Entscheidungsmodellen mit Erweitert ¿ Rekursiven und Vektor-Wertigen Gewinnfunktionalen.- On Some Subclasses of Operator Semi-Stable and Operator Levy¿s Measures on RN.- Asymptotic Almost Equidistribution on a Banach Space.- Random Branching Process with Deterministic Motion and Unlocal Branching Law.- Information Assembly Value in Decision-Making.- Decision Making Under Comparative Evaluation of Results.- Sur la Convergence Ponctuelle De Tnf/an, Dans Lp.- Information Geometry of Nonideal Gases.- .- A Construction of Protocol Sequences for Collision Channels without Feedback.- A Minimax Result in a Model with Infinitely Many Nuisance Parameters.- Spectrum Decomposition for Stationary Weakly Isotropic Random Fields in the Plane.- Multi-Pulse L.P.C. Analysis of Speech and Seismic Signals.- Minimax Linear Approgression Estimation for Finite Dimensional Classes of Regression Functions.- Some Characterizations of Normal Law by the Independence of Linear Functions in a Triangular System.- A Limit Theorem for Measure Valued Diffusion Processes.- A Comparison of Life Times by Rank Tests.- An Algorithm for an Electronic Network.- Optimal Control and P-TH Mean Stabilizability of Stochastic Linear Systems.- A Sequential Lebesgue-Radon-Nikodym Theorem and the Lebesgue Decomposition of Martingales.- A Note on Potential Estimation for the Stationary Gibbs Model on the Lattice Zd.- Random Generator of Formulas of Propositional Calculus.- Sensitive Growth Analysis of Controlled Multiplicative Systems.- Rights and Similary of Individuals.- Stadia a Statistical Dialogue System.- On the Computation of Hausdorff Dimension and its Relation to Channel Capacity.- Limit Theorems for Lag Processes.- Random Sets In [0,l].- Optimal Choice Problem with Uncertainty of Selection and Backward Solicitation.- Investigation of the Independence of Binary Variables.- Contribution to the General Treatment of Random Processes Used in Chemical Reaction Kinetics.- f-Projection of -Finite Measures and its Information-Theoretic and Statistical Applications.- On the Information of Experiments When Observing Time Series.- On Reasons for Introducing Means for Approximately Optimal Choice of Robust Procedure.- Comparison of Several Homogeneity Tests for Samples with Censored Data.- Adaptive Robust D-Estimator.- Probabilistic Model of a Random Manufacturing Process.- Note on a Solution of the Degu¿ Problem.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 440 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Crystalline or, more properly, semi-crystalline polymers continue to present major challenges and opportunities to scientists and technologists alike. On the one hand, scientific understanding of their structure and properties still lags behind that of other economically important, but less complicated materials. On the other hand, there remains very considerable potential for improving properties in systems designed for specific pur poses. Ways are only just being found of transferring inherent molecular properties (such as high modulus) to the macromolecular solid. Beyond these are many possibilities of manipulating the organization of chemical and physical textures towards desired ends. The chapters in this volume are reports, by wen-known and active researchers, on some of the important recent developments ofthese themes. Grubb begins with the fundamental and central problem of determining polymeric microstructure. Polymers sutTer by comparison with other materials in that it has not generany been possible to exploit the high resolution of the electron microscope to determine their microstructure in adequate detail. However, recently, ways have been found of studying representative lamellar textures in melt-crystallized polymers. When fully exploited these must add greatly to our detailed knowledge and provide a firmer fundamental base for future developments. Radiation damage bears the primary responsibility for restricting electron microscopy. In his chapter, Kener recounts how appreciation of this fact led him into a fascinating study of ever deeper aspects of radiation damage in polyethylene over two decades, often controversiany but invariably clarifying the basic understanding of an area now of increasing commercial importance.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -How will the world be able to feed close to 9 billion people in 2050 and still maintain the ecosystems In this perspective, INRA and CIRAD launched the initiative, in 2006, to develop a foresight project for analysing issues pertaining to the world's food and agricultural systems on the 2050 timeline. This book provides a synthetic presentation of the main conclusions that this foresight project has yielded. First, it recapitulates the main statistical references for the period 1961 to 2003, before going on to describe the Agribiom simulation tool used to calculate food biomass resource use balances. Two scenarios on the 2050 timeline are then considered: Agrimonde GO is a trend-based scenario that bets on economic growth to feed the world, in a context where environmental protection is not a priority; in contrast, the idea in Agrimonde 1 is to feed the world while preserving its ecosystems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.