Springer springer apr 2005 (265 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services presents the proceedings of CSES 2004 - the 2nd International Workshop on Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services held within IFIP WCC in August 2004 in Toulouse, France. Certification and security share a common technological basis in the reliable and efficient monitoring of executed and running processes; they likewise depend on the same fundamental organizational and economic principles. As the range of services managed and accessed through communication networks grows throughout society, and given the legal value that is often attached to data treated or exchanged, it is critical to be able to certify the network transactions and ensure that the integrity of the involved computer-based systems is maintained.This collection of papers documents several important developments, and offers real-life application experiences, research results and methodological proposals of direct interest to systems experts and users in governmental, industrial and academic communities. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the third volume in a respected series edited by the Japan Environmental Council. Part l covers the environmental impact of the military, trade, agriculture/food and the biodiversity of forests and rice paddies. Part 2 examines the problems unique to Northeast Asia, the Mekong region, and Inner Asia. In April 2005 this book was awarded the 6th Environment for Tomorrow Award by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems gathers in a single volume a spectrum of complex dynamic systems related papers written by experts in their fields, and strongly representative of current research trends. Complex systems present important challenges, in great part due to their sheer size which makes it difficult to grasp their dynamic behavior, optimize their operations, or study their reliability. Yet, we live in a world where, due to increasing inter-dependencies and networking of systems, complexity has become the norm. With this in mind, the volume comprises two parts. The first part is dedicated to a spectrum of complex problems of decision and control encountered in the area of production and inventory systems. The second part is dedicated to large scale or multi-agent system problems occurring in other areas of engineering such as telecommunication and electric power networks, as well as more generic context.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Multidisciplinary Scheduling: Theory and Applications is a volume of nineteen reviewed papers that were selected from the sixty-seven papers presented during the First Multidisciplinary International Conference of Scheduling (MISTA). This is the initial volume of MISTA-the primary forum on interdisciplinary research on scheduling research. Each paper in the volume has been rigorously reviewed and carefully copyedited to ensure its readability. The MISTA volume focuses on the following leading edge topics: Fundamentals of Scheduling, Multi-Criteria Scheduling, Personnel Scheduling, Scheduling in Space, Scheduling the Internet, Machine Scheduling, Bin Packing, Educational Timetabling, Sports Scheduling, and Transport Scheduling.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Covers these key topics: Shared-mesh protection for optical WDM networks.Survivable traffic grooming for hierarchical optical WDM networks.Survivable data over next-generation SONET/SDH with inverse multiplexing.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Energy and Environment is a volume on energy and environmental modeling that describes a broad variety of modeling methodologies, embodied in models of varying scopes and philosophies, ranging from top-down integrated assessment models to bottom-up partial equilibrium models, to hybrid models.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Global optimization aims at solving the most general problems of deterministic mathematical programming: to find the global optimum of a nonlinear, nonconvex, multivariate function of continuous and/or integer variables subject to constraints which may be themselves nonlinear and nonconvex. In addition, once the solutions are found, proof of its optimality is also expected from this methodology. Therefore, with these difficulties in mind, global optimization is becoming an increasingly powerful and important methodology. Essays and Surveys in Global Optimization is the most recent examination of its mathematical capability, power, and wide ranging solutions to many fields in the applied sciences.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - GERAD celebrates this year its 25th anniversary. The Center was created in 1980 by a small group of professors and researchers of HEC Montreal, McGill University and of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. GERAD's activities achieved sufficient scope to justify its conversion in June 1988 into a Joint Research Centre of HEC Montreal, the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and McGill University. In 1996, the U- versite du Quebec a Montreal joined these three institutions. GERAD has fifty members (professors), more than twenty research associates and post doctoral students and more than two hundreds master and Ph.D. students. GERAD is a multi-university center and a vital forum for the devel- ment of operations research. Its mission is defined around the following four complementarily objectives: - The original and expert contribution to all research fields in GERAD's area of expertise; - The dissemination of research results in the best scientific outlets as well as in the society in general; - The training of graduate students and post doctoral researchers; - The contribution to the economic community by solving important problems and providing transferable tools.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In recent years magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has enriched the technological potential available for the characterization of cardiovascular pathologies, adding substantial advantages to other non-invasive techniques. This technique, which is intrinsically digital and has reduced operator dependency, allows the performance of image analysis in a quantitative and reproducible manner.The use of non-ionizing energy with the consequent absence of an environmental impact and of operator and patient biohazards makes MRI a winning technique when evaluating the risk- benefit ratio in comparison to other imaging methods.In virtue of its added diagnostic value and inherent refinements that allow construction of two- and three-dimensional images, MRI is gaining a primary role in the histopathological and physiopathological understanding of a large number of pathologies concerning the heart and vessels.This text is addressed both to MRI operators seeking specific technical information and to clinicians who wish to have a better understanding of the diagnostic and management advantages that MRI can offer.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Next Generation Transport Networks: Data, Management, and Control Planesprovides a tutorial and reference information for next generation telecommunication network technologies. Thisinsightful and accessible overviewincludes key technologies that comprise the backbone of the networking infrastructure,such as access, metro and long-haul segments.Written by industry veterans,this work uniquely balances and blends three key perspectives on high-speed networks fundamental to understanding transport mechanisms for potential implementation: the data, management, and control planes. Readerswill readily learn how transport networks function, how they are used, how layers are managed, and how standards guide developing technologies.Included in this volume:Industry standardsfrom the ITU-T (G- and M-series), ANSI/ATIS, and IEEEFuturedata planetrends in terms of mapping Ethernetframes/streams or IP packets into PoS and GFP for WAN transport; virtual concatenation with LCAS of SONET, DS1/DS3/E1/E3, and OTN signals; optical transport including G.709OTN; and MAN/WAN data access through IEEE 802.17 RPRSwitching: High speed circuit and packet switching using multi-stage Clos as well as multi-dimensional distributed switching approachesControl Plane - SS7, ATM PNNI, Automatic Switched Optical/Transport Network Architecture (G.ASON/G.ASTN) and protocols for routing and signaling- GMPLS,RSVP-TE, OSPF-TETransport Network architectures for access, metro and long-haul segmentsSelf-healing: perspectives on protection and restoration across ring and mesh topologies; discussion of new and emerging approaches for restoration such as p-cycle, SBPP, PWCETransport Network Management - TMN layers, transport network management requirements, technologies - SNMP, SOAP/XML, TL1, and OSMINEThe depth and breadth ofcoverage coupled with carefully chosen illustration, e.g. of the complex-frame formats, and summary tables for quick reference, make Next Generation Transport Networks: Data, Management, and Control Planesvaluablefor telecommunications professionals as well as a handy reference for network researchers.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At present where protein identification and characterisation using mass spectrometry is a method of choice, this book is presenting a review of basic proteomic techniques. The second part of the book is related to the novel high throughput protein identification technique called the 'molecular scanner'. Several protein identification techniques are described, especially the peptide mass fingerprint with MALDI-MS based method. E.g. ionisation process, matrix available, signal reproducibility and suppression effect, as well as date treatment for protein identification using bioinformatics tools.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Novel drugs are being developed which interact with the programmed cell death (apoptotic) machinery in cancer cells, thereby causing these cells to commit suicide and to be removed from the body. Research is also directed to investigate why the cancer cells sometimes lose the ability to undergo apoptosis after a certain period of time and methods are being developed to reactivate this cell death process. This book is intended for workers in the field and clinicians as a useful guide of the state of affairs in this exciting field which may offer more effective possibilities for treatment of cancer patients. Mels Sluyser is the Editor of the journals APOPTOSIS and ANTI-CANCER DRUGS. He brings together a collection of papers written by the world's leading experts in these fields.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Encyclopedia of Adult Education is the first comprehensive reference work in this important and fast-growing field, and is an invaluable resource for adult educators who research and teach in the fields of higher education, work in community-based settings, or practise in public or private organizations. Its 170+ articles, written by an international team of contributors from over 17 countries, detail the research and practice of the field from its emergence as a separate discipline to the present day, covering key concepts, issues and individuals and providing a cutting-edge summary of ongoing debates across a wide range of perspectives, from self-directed learning to human resource development. Entries are arranged A-Z and extensive cross-referenced, with detailed bibliographies for each topic to facilitate further research.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One of the first widely available resources on the subject of adaptive enterprise.The text takes on a new and burgeoning field of study and development and provides the opportunity to help shape and guide the thinking of decision makers in the world of both public and private sectors.The authors contribute a wealth of experience from professional situations having worked for IBM Global Services Consulting Group and SAP Institute for Innovation and Development.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Clinical practice is evolving at a rapid pace,nowhere more so than in the field of cardiology.Acute Coronary Syndromes, Sudden Cardiac Death, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation,Syncope,and Prevention of Global Cardiovascular Risk are the main Emerging Pathologies to which many investigators are addressing their researches. Less than 10 years ago, some of them were considered of relevance only to internists, and some others as a common benign arrhythmia or an ineluctable illness. Today, their prevalence amongst the population represents one of the major public health problems at the beginning of the third millen- um. The need to have a state of the art overview of the epidemiology,physiopat- logical and electrogenetic mechanisms, diagnosis, pharmacological or electrical treatment,prognosis,patient management in and out of hospital,organisational and economical implications of these emerging pathologies and the success of the previous edition inspired us to organise the second edition of this biannual International Meeting. This book contains the Proceedings of the Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting held in Taormina, Italy, 7-9 April 2005. Like the previous volume, it boasts the participation of many nationally and internationally renowned spe- ers in the field of clinical and interventional cardiology who will interact actively with the delegates.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Task Allocation.- The Generation of Bidding Rules for Auction-Based Robot Coordination.- Issues in Multi-Robot Coalition Formation.- Sensor Network-Mediated Multi-Robot Task Allocation.- Coordination in Dynamic Environments.- Multi-Objective Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems.- Levels of Multi-Robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments.- Parallel Stochastic Hill- Climbing with Small Teams.- Toward Versatility of Multi-Robot Systems.- Information / Sensor Sharing and Fusion.- Decentralized Communication Strategies for Coordinated Multi-Agent Policies.- Improving Multirobot Multitarget Tracking by Communicating Negative Information.- Enabling Autonomous Sensor-Sharing for Tightly-Coupled Cooperative Tasks.- Distributed Mapping and Coverage.- Merging Partial Maps Without Using Odometry.- Distributed Coverage of Unknown/Unstructured Environments by Mobile Sensor Networks.- Motion Planning and Control.- Real-Time Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Safe Dynamics.- A Multi-Robot Testbed for Biologically-Inspired Cooperative Control.- Human-Robot Interaction.- Task Switching and Multi-Robot Teams.- User Modelling for Principled Sliding Autonomy in Human-Robot Teams.- Applications.- Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing.- Deploying Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams in Urban Environments.- Precision Manipulation with Cooperative Robots.- Poster Short Papers.- A Robust Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Multi-Robot Localization.- A Dialogue-Based Approach to Multi-Robot Team Control.- Hybrid Free-Space Optics/Radio Frequency (FSO/RF) Networks for Mobile Robot Teams.- Swarming UAVS Behavior Hierarchy.- The Gnats - Low-Cost Embedded Networks for Supporting Mobile Robots.- Role Based Operations.- Ergodic Dynamics by Design: A Route to Predictable Multi-Robot Systems.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are a powerful tool in science, mathematics, economics and finance. This book will help the reader to master the basic theory and learn some applications of SDEs. In particular, the reader will be provided with the backward SDE technique for use in research when considering financial problems in the market, and with the reflecting SDE technique to enable study of optimal stochastic population control problems. These two techniques are powerful and efficient,and can also be applied to research in many other problems in nature, science and elsewhere.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We are pleased to present the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Syntheses, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond' which was held June 7-10, 2004 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The main goal of the Workshop was to provide a forum for the intensive exchange of opinions between scientists from Russia and NATO countries in order to give additional impetus to the development of the science and applications of a new carbon nanostructure, called ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) composed of 2-5 nm crystallites. There are two forms of UNCD, dispersed particles and films. The two communities of researchers working on these two forms of UNCD have hitherto lacked a common forum in which to explore areas of scientific and technological overlap. As a consequence, the two fields have up to now developed independently of each other. The time had clearly come to remedy this situation in order to be able to take full advantage of the enormous potential for societal benefits to be derived from exploiting the synergistic relationships between UNCD dispersed particulates and UNCD films. The NATO sponsored ARW therefore occurred in a very timely manner and was successful in beginning the desired dialogue, a precondition for making progress toward the above stated goal. The discovery of UNCD completes a triadof nanostructured carbonswhich includes fullerenes and nanotubes.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Cosa si prova a non poter avere un figlio Quanto è difficile comunicare alla coppia una diagnosi di sterilità Come affrontare il 70% dei fallimenti delle tecniche di PMA Come una legge puo' incidere sul futuro di un embrione Il testo, nato dalla fusione multidisciplinare medica, psicologica e sociologica, vuole riflettere su queste domande e accompagnare il lettore in una nuova forma mentis sulle criticità nella fecondazione assistita. La trama scientifica si accompagna a un linguaggio diretto dove hanno un posto rilevante le emozioni, cosi' centrali in campi quali la ginecologia, la riproduzione e la psicologia dell'infertilità, che vanno al cuore del bisogno psico-sessuale più forte e arcaico: quello riproduttivo. Al centro del volume è la relazione medico-paziente che, nel campo dell'infertilità, è caratterizzata dall'attivazione di forti echi emotivi da parte di entrambi. Il volume, a tale riguardo, propone il protocollo SAHARAI che comprende due metodi inediti (il questionario e il nurse-ring) capaci di intervenire, rispettivamente, nella fase diagnostica e in quella terapeutica della fecondazione. I metodi e le riflessioni proposti sono volti alla riduzione dei disagi psicologici delle coppie e al riequilibrio del rapporto medico-paziente. Dal testo emerge forte una nuova idea di formazione per gli operatori dei centri di fecondazione assistita e un percorso di qualificazione per le nuove figure professionali (gli psicologi addetti alla PMA) in accordo con le nuove direttive della legge.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some' (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each', 'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' as the indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically, philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes of ) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already introduced into discoursc. Given a 'space appropriate' to a count term C, it makes sense to ask how many C's there are in that space. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An invaluable glossary of significant language and linguistic terms and concepts designed for students of English Language and Linguistics. The book also provides a very useful overview of the subject as well as covering principal figures in linguistic criticism and their contribution to the subject. Organized into the core subject areas of language and linguistics, it enables the reader to contextualize each particular definition and gain a wider understanding of each topic. This edition has been updated to include more extensive coverage, particularly of language terms. 264 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the only book that provides the full story of the role of women in space exploration. Previously unpublished photographs of various aspects of training and participation in spaceflights are included. Personal interviews with female cosmonauts and astronauts. Traces the history of female aviation milestones from the early part of the 20 th Century to the current space programme. 444 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The time has come to open a lucid debate on the ways and means to make Europe better deliver democracy and sustainable growth. The Report on the State of the European Union examines the progress of European integration and focus on economic aspects of the process. This volume explores the themes of: democracy and legitimacy, convergence and cohesion, macroeconomic policies and social integration. the report is written in an accessible way and will be a useful resource for academics, students, policymakers, journalists, and government advisors. 268 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This clear and compelling textbook provides a complete survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. It starts by describing the ways in which attachment difficulties manifest themselves in children's behaviour, and goes on looking at abuse, neglect, and compound cases of abuse and neglect, backing it all up with empirical research evidence and vivid case material. In its final section, it provides a comprehensive review of attachment-based interventions. Written by an extremely respected and successful author, this book, anchored in research evidence, places its emphasis on practice implementation and aims at answering all the kinds of questions practitioners and student practitioners specialising in child welfare are most likely to ask. 336 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -L'integrazione del sistema di 'gestione per la Qualità', con la valutazione e il miglioramento delle specifiche competenze tecnico-professionali e col monitoraggio della Qualità dei percorsi diagnostici e terapeutici non è stato e non è impegno di poco conto: non a caso essi sono annoverati tra i punti di forza e gli obiettivi strategici anche del Piano Sanitario Nazionale 2003-2005 ('Garantire e monitorare la qualità delle cure e delle tecnologie sanitarie'). La disponibilità di materiali di significato formativo in tal senso è ancora assai scarsa nel nostro mondo specialistico. E cio', nonostante sia sempre più pressante la richiesta di strumenti formativi che consentano di trasferire al medico specialista la capacità di utilizzare al meglio i metodi e gli strumenti per l'identificazione, la gestione e la misura dei processi diagnostici, terapeutici e gestionali in Pneumologia, avendo come obiettivo il loro miglioramento continuo nel contesto dell'Azienda sanitaria. L'obiettivo didattico-formativo del presente volume è proprio orientato in tal senso e si propone di fungere da strumento utile per intraprendere in maniera semplice l'approccio e la gestione per processi in Pneumologia, rendendo cosi' più facile ed efficace la comunicazione con le Direzioni strategiche aziendali. Gli argomenti trattati sono di estrema attualità in tema di applicazione dei metodi e degli strumenti illustrati nei programmi di miglioramento per la Qualità. Cio' nel tentativo di incrementare le competenze specifiche dello specialista pneumologo, cosi' da renderlo interlocutore efficace e indipendente nei confronti delle Direzioni strategiche di riferimento. Con grande sensibilità la SIMeR (Società Italiana di Medicina Respiratoria) ha voluto patrocinare la presente edizione, a oggi l'unica in ambito pneumologico, i cui contenuti hanno preso origine dalle proposte e dal lavoro dei responsabili di uno dei suoi Gruppi di Studio di più recente istituzione, quello del 'Miglioramento Continuo della Qualità in Pneumologia'. 80 pp. Italienisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on the Job Definition Format (JDF) new workflow concepts are developed which will help create integrated workflows in the graphic arts industry. These developments create new business opportunities that will lead to a cost reduction but also will entail risks. Starting with a comprehensive explanation of the new standard, information is offered that enables business executives to make sound decisions on software investments in the graphic arts industry. Available architectures and products are highlighted and benefits are described. The steps relevant for the process integration are discussed. 112 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility is a critical examination of our understanding of morality and responsibility through the questions raised by the problem of moral luck. The book considers two different approaches to moral luck, the Aristotelian vulnerability to factors outside the agent's control and the Kantian ambition to make morality immune to luck, and concludes that both approaches have more in common than previously thought. At the same time, it also considers recent developments in the field of virtue ethics and neo-kantianism. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in normative theories and the fundamental questions surrounding moral responsibility and the attribution of praise and blame. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Diplomatic Interventions argues that war is a social construction. In so doing, it unsettles the definition of intervention, as a coercive interference by one state in the affairs of another, to examine the range of communicative or 'diplomatic' practices which through their presence modify the experience of war. The tension between claims that war is pervasive and that war is a social construct is analysed in relation to a range of moral, legal, military, economic, cultural, and therapeutic interventions. The concluding chapter highlights how the book itself is a critical intervention that requires us look at again from a new angle at international practice. 221 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are well documented. Yet there are few, if any, guidelines on how to implement knowledge management within an organization, especially focusing on how to manage knowledge in a network environment. This book visualizes paths that allow one to make connections between theories, concepts and concrete actions. It shows how to integrate these different roots into a holistic view on managing knowledge in networks. It develops a methodology which will support the reader to move concrete steps forward towards building and maintaining knowledge networks in his organization. 204 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume assesses the implementation of the EU's cohesion policy and the role that the policy has in stimulating ten new member states from eastern and southern European countries to join the EU in 2004 and another three to four countries that will join in the near future. 215 pp. Englisch.…