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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Backing up the pioneering medical researchers and experi menters are the phalanxes and cohorts of practising clinicians in district general hospitals and in general practice who may have to implement and apply any breakthroughs and advances in practical and realistic terms. This they cannot, and should not, be expected to do without careful consideration and analysis. It is essential, therefore, to have regular reviews of the growing points of medicine which are constructively critical as well as being enthusiastic and which can present the issues and implications clearly and fairly to clinicians. The Practical Clinical Medicine series is designed to provide such regular reviews on selected subjects. Each volume is under the charge of an invited editor who selects his team of 4--6 experts. Each contribution is an authoritative, detailed and referenced examination of his topic, is clearly presented in an understandable manner and is practical, relevant and applic able to everyday clinical practice. The series is intended as a means of communication between researchers and practising clinicians. It is dedicated to gener alists who provide primary health care in general practice and to generalists providing secondary medical care in district vii viii Series Editors' Foreword general hospitals. Both are involved in applying good general practical clinical medicine for their patients, but can only succeed in a climate of constant review and examination.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Backing up the pioneering medical researchers and experi menters are the phalanxes and cohorts of practising clinicians in district general hospitals and in general practice who may have to implement and apply any breakthroughs and advances in practical and realistic terms. This they cannot, and should not, be expected to do without careful consideration and analysis. It is essential, therefore, to have regular reviews of the growing points of medicine which are constructively critical as well as being enthusiastic and which can present the issues and implications clearly and fairly to clinicians. The Practical Clinical Medicine series is designed to provide such regular reviews on selected subjects. Each volume is under the charge of an invited editor who selects his team of 4--6 experts. Each contribution is an authoritative, detailed and referenced examination of his topic, is clearly presented in an understandable manner and is practical, relevant and applic able to everyday clinical practice. The series is intended as a means of communication between researchers and practising clinicians. It is dedicated to gener alists who provide primary health care in general practice and to generalists providing secondary medical care in district vii viii Series Editors' Foreword general hospitals. Both are involved in applying good general practical clinical medicine for their patients, but can only succeed in a climate of constant review and examination.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The European M::metary System (EMS) is perhaps the only success story of the Common Market since the First Enlargement. Its success, particul arly where the comnercial use of the ECU is concerned, has taken rrost experts by surprise. So much so, that when the author tried to recommend to his students a suitable and substantial work of study and/or reference about the experience of the EMS and its possible future evolution --- no book could be found. Thus, the author set out to write the present work. The author's aim is not to give a historical account of the EHS. Rather, the intention is to place the experience in a major historical context wherein the System is seen an important transitional phase on the road to the implementation of a full economic and rronetary union (EMU) - When examining the earlier plans for an EMU which saw the light of day between 1969 and 1970 (already so long ago!) clear reasons emerge why the original six founder Member States of the EEC should have found it logical to embark upon the road to an El'1U - 'p=vided the political will to do so existed'. Thus, they had become highly integrated and were conducting half their trade with each other. Then, there was the desire to integrate still further ---- eventually leading (perhaps) to a political union.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Backing up the pioneering medical researchers and experi menters are the phalanxes and cohorts of practising clinicians in district general hospitals and in general practice who may have to implement and apply any breakthroughs and advances in practical and realistic terms. This they cannot, and should not, be expected to do without careful consideration and analysis. It is essential, therefore, to have regular reviews of the growing points of medicine which are constructively critical as well as being enthusiastic and which can present the issues and implications clearly and fairly to clinicians. The Practical Clinical Medicine series is designed to provide such regular reviews on selected subjects. Each volume is under the charge of an invited editor who selects his team of 4--6 experts. Each contribution is an authoritative, detailed and referenced examination of his topic, is clearly presented in an understandable manner and is practical, relevant and applic able to everyday clinical practice. The series is intended as a means of communication between researchers and practising clinicians. It is dedicated to gener alists who provide primary health care in general practice and to generalists providing secondary medical care in district vii viii Series Editors' Foreword general hospitals. Both are involved in applying good general practical clinical medicine for their patients, but can only succeed in a climate of constant review and examination. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One Development of the Motivation for Particular Activity Scale.- Discussion.- Two In the Atkinson Tradition: The Motivational Function of Emotion.- Attributions Related to Affects.- Feelings Related to Action.- General Summary.- Three Conscious and Unconscious Processes in the Psychology of Motivation.- Four Motivational Chaos: A Simple Model.- The Concepts of Reflexivity and Interdependence.- A Recursive Model of Achievement Motivation.- Applications to Atkinson's Theory of Achievement Motivation.- Level of Aspiration: Some Preliminary Results.- Five Mathematical Model of the Behavioral Stream Measurement.- Six Uses of the Computer in Motivational Psychology.- Simulation-Generated Research Hypotheses.- Computer Presentation of Stimuli.- Modelling Empirical Results.- Computer Measure of Resultant Achievement Motivation.- Test-Retest Reliability.- Experimentally-Created Computer Anxiety.- Structural Differences Among the Experimental Situations.- Advantages and Disadvantages of Computer Use.- Seven Motivation and Efficiency of Cognitive Performance.- Strength of Motivation: The Implications of the Dynamics of Action.- Task Variables Affecting Efficient Performance.- Inefficiency as an Inappropriate Tradeoff.- Summary and Conclusions.- Eight Contextualism and Human Motives.- A Motive is Different at Different Points in the Life-cycle.- Sub-types of Motives.- Interaction of Motives: A Typology as a Way to Assess Motives.- Quality of Motives and Values Considered Simultaneously.- Conclusion.- Nine Human Values, Valences, Expectations and Affect: Theoretical Issues Emerging from Recent Applications of the Expectancy-Value Model.- Values and Actions.- Unemployment and Depressive Affect.- The Role of Affect.- The Nature of Expectations.- Ten Future Time Perspective: ACognitive-Motivational Concept.- Theoretical Definitions.- Operationalizations of Future Time Perspective.- Future Time Perspective in Experimental Psychology.- FTP and Cognitive Theories of (Achievement) Motivation.- Affective Attitude Toward the Future.- Summary and Conclusion.- Epilogue.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On May 27-31, 1985, a series of symposia was held at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Pro fessor V. M. Joshi. These symposia were chosen to reflect Professor Joshi's research interests as well as areas of expertise in statistical science among faculty in the Departments of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, Economics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Philosophy. From these symposia, the six volumes which comprise the 'Joshi Festschrift' have arisen. The 117 articles in this work reflect the broad interests and high quality of research of those who attended our conference. We would like to thank all of the contributors for their superb cooperation in helping us to complete this project. Our deepest gratitude must go to the three people who have spent so much of their time in the past year typing these volumes: Jackie Bell, Lise Constant, and Sandy Tarnowski. This work has been printed from 'camera ready' copy produced by our Vax 785 computer and QMS Lasergraphix printers, using the text processing software TEX. At the initiation of this project, we were neophytes in the use of this system. Thank you, Jackie, Lise, and Sandy, for having the persistence and dedication needed to complete this undertaking.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This review covers the major systems of human physiology. The review is not ex haustive; it assumes that the student has completed a course in human physiology and wishes to refresh their memory in preparing for an examination. The student is advised to refer to a competent textbook several times in this review. This book is a revised version of a review book used by our medical students for over ten years. Coverage of the various topics in physiology is comparable to the percentage of questions on those topics in recent National Board, Part I examinations. Review questions follow every few pages of text in order to monitor your under standing of the just preceding material. The multiple choice questions are mainly of the two conventional types; 'single best answer' questions, for which you choose the single best answer, and 'multiple correct answer' questions, for which you choose the one or more correct alternatives. The two multiple choice formats have been standardized throughout the book.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book aims at the development of an institutional approach to general economic equilibrium. It is argued that general equilibrium theory forms a well-rounded basis for the development of an institutional economic theory. The fundamental economic trade mechanism underlying this re-focusing is that of the Edgeworthian barter mechanism modeled through the equilibrium notion of the core of an economy. In the first part a summary of the well-established insights regarding the core of an economy is given. Next the book explores the extensive literature that links the core with the Walrasian price mechanism through core convergence results, the comparison of core allocations with Walrasian equilibrium allocations, and equivalence results. In the second part an alternative model of Edgeworthian barter in the setting of a large institutionally structured economy is developed. Two new Edgeworthian equilibrium concepts are considered - the semi-core and the contract-core. The book concludes by showing that equivalence is extremely hard to achieve and that perfect competition thus has a pathological nature.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - THIS book or some related work has occupied me spasmodically over rather a long period, in fact ever since I listened to the class lectures of Professor A. K. White on the possibility of forming a pure science of Politics. Mter an earlier version of Part I had failed to obtain publication in 1947, some chapters appeared as articles, and I am obliged to the editors of the journals mentioned below for permission to reprint this material, sometimes in a modified form. When I first attempted publication I was unacquainted with the earlier history of the theory, and, indeed, did not even know that it had a history; and the later additions to the book have largely been by way of writing the present Part II. This historical section does not include the important recent work, Social Ohoice and Individual Values (1951), of Professor Kenneth J. Arrow; but it does include all the mathematical work on committees and elections appearing before the middle of this century which has come to my notice, although the last item in it is dated 1907. No doubt there is much important material which I have failed to see. The theorizing of the book grew out of a reading of the English political philosophers and of the Italian writers on Public Finance. At a very early stage I was helped to find the general lines of development by discussion with my colleague Professor Ronald H.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This Pediatric Nephrology series is a focus on salient points which at the time of each annual seminar are of importance to the practicing pediatrician and nephrologist, the clinical researcher, and basic researcher interested in clinical problems. Hence the format of selected papers and panel discussions to capture the tenor of the times. More thorough coverage of many of the subjects can be found in current journals and textbooks listed in the authors' references. Those searching for the conventional should look there rather than here since our aim is not to cover each subject in its entirety but to secure attention to the controversial aspects of the subjects, dispel the notion that there is one answer to a question, and raise the level of inclination toward dynamic problem solving. The basic subject chosen this year reflects dominant concerns this year and the participants chosen--speakers and discussants--represent certain views relevant to the subject at this time. To reflect the tempo and flavor produced by this unique blend, the discussions are included almost verbatim. For some this means readability; for others, excess verbiage. The careful reader will notice that I have been the chairman of all sessions and have moderated all discussions. This is in keeping with our aim to ferret out interrelated basic questions and varying answers to the subjects--seen as related in problems and solutions. In the discussions, all names have been deleted.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Notations.- Drinfeld modules.- Lattices.- Partial zeta functions.- Drinfeld modules of rank 1.- Modular curves over C.- Expansions around cusps.- Modular forms and functions.- Complements. 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The emergence of solitons of the Korteweg-de Vries equation from arbitrary initial conditions.- Asymptotic estimates of solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation on right half lines slowly moving to the left.- Multisoliton phase shifts for the korteweg-de vries equation in the case of a nonzero reflection coefficient.- On the approximation of a real potential in the Zakharov-Shabat system by its reflectionless part.- Decomposition and estimates of solutions of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation on right half lines slowly moving leftward.- Multisoliton phase shifts for the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation in the case of a nonzero reflection coefficient.- Asymptotic estimates of solutions of the Sine-Gordon equation on right half lines almost linearly moving leftward.- On the approximation of a complex potential in the Zakharov-Shabat system by its reflectionless part. 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Multiplicity of spectral measures.- The spectral theorem.- Bochner¿s theorem.- Distribution of cocycles.- Cocycles on the line. 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Preliminaries.- Differential descent theory.- Normality in differential galois theory.- Complements. 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A multigrid solver for a stabilized finite element discretization of the Stokes problem.- A-posteriori error estimates. Adaptive local mesh refinement and multigrid iteration.- Continuation and multi-grid for nonlinear elliptic systems.- Magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium calculations using multigrid.- On the combination of the multigrid method and conjugate gradients.- Multi-level approaches to discrete-state and stochastic problems.- Multigrid method for nearly singular and slightly indefinite problems.- An adaptive multi-grid scheme for simulation of flows.- Multigrid methods for calculating the lifting potential incompressible flows around three-dimensional bodies.- Deffect correction and higher order schemes for the multi grid solution of the steady Euler equations.- Multigrid algorithms for compressible flow calculations.- Bus coupled systems for multigrid algorithms.- On multigrid and iterative aggregation methods for nonsymmetric problems.- The multigrid method on parallel processors.- On the treatment of singularities in the multigrid method.- A comparison of several Mg-methods for the solution of the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations.- Second order accurate upwind solutions of the 2D steady Euler equations by the use of a defect correction method.- Multigrid method in subspace and domain partitioning in the discrete solution of elliptic problems.- Fas multigrid employing ILU/SIP smoothing: A robust fast solver for 3D transonic potential flow. 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On fundamental solutions for abstract parabolic equations.- On some singular nonlinear evolution equations.- Some transmutation methods for canonical systems.- Scattering frequencies for time ¿ Periodic scattering problems.- Periodic solutions for linear integrodifferential equations with infinite delay in Banach spaces.- Linearized stability for nonlinear semigroups.- On a class of semilinear parabolic equations in L1.- On a singular non-autonomous equation in Banach spaces.- On the spectrum of certain systems of linear evolution equations.- Some extensions of Thomas-Fermi theory.- The extent of spatial regularity for parabolic integrodifferential equations.- An approach to the singular solutions of elliptic problems via the theory of differential equations in Banach spaces.- A two point problem for a second order abstract differential equation.- ¿Sharp¿ regularity results for mixed hyperbolic problems of second order.- C regularity for fully nonlinear abstract evolution equations.- Semilinear evolution equations in Fr¿et spaces.- On some singular hyperbolic evolution equations in Hilbert spaces.- Periodic solutions of the thermostat problem.- Some questions on the integrodifferential equation u =AK\*u+BM\*u.- On fuchsian hyperbolic partial differential equations.- Global solutions to evolution equations of parabolic type.- Compact perturbations of weakly equicontinuous semigroups.- Cosine families of operators and applications.- Regularity of functions on an interval with values in the space of fractional powers of operators. 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Kolmogorov tori of perturbations of integrable reversible diffeomorphisms and vectorfields.- Normal forms for reversible diffeomorphisms and vectorfields near an equilibrium and their kolmogorov tori.- The behaviour of trajectories of reversible vectorfields near a symmetric cycle.- Non-autonomous reversible differential equations.- Structure of resonant zones of reversible diffeomorphisms and vectorfields.- Families of symmetric cycles near an equilibrium of a reversible vectorfield. 328 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Partitions with 'N copies of N'.- Relations fonctionnelles et denombrement des hypercartes planaires pointees.- Prefix-free words of length N over M letters : two-sided well-balanced parentheses and palindroms.- Combinatorial representations of some Lie groups and Lie algebras.- Definite integral evaluation by enumeration, partial results in the MacDonald conjectures.- Enumeration of certain young tableaux with bounded height.- Fonctions sym¿iques et s¿es hyperg¿¿iques basiques multivari¿, II.- Raising operators and Young's rule.- Counting three-line Latin rectangles.- Chemins sous-diagonaux et tableaux de Young.- Foncteurs analytiques et esp¿s de structures.- Enumeration under finite group action: Symmetry classes of mappings.- Joint distributions of three descriptive parameters of bridges.- Some new computational methods in the theory of species.- Combinatorial resolution of systems of differential equations, I. Ordinary differential equations.- Une combinatoire non-commutative pour l'etude des nombres secants.- Theorem of Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt, logarithm and symmetric group representations of degrees equal to stirling numbers.- A Baker's dozen of conjectures concerning plane partitions.- Combinatorics of Jacobi configurations I: Complete oriented matchings.- About the Inequalities of Erd¿s and Moser on the largest transitive subtournament of a tournament.- Heaps of pieces, I : Basic definitions and combinatorial lemmas.- The calculus of virtual species and K-species.- Toward a combinatorial proof of the Jacobian conjecture .- S¿ce de problemes. 404 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Polar organometallic compounds are indispensable for the synthetic chemist. As this book shows, these almost ideal reagents are easy to prepare with high specificity under mild conditions and yet react quite readily with a great variety of substrates. Many compounds can be metallated directly at positions which would otherwise be difficult to substitute. Functional groups and heteroatoms already present in a molecule direct metallation to sites in their vicinity. The rules which govern polar organometallic chemistry often are not dominated by the usual n-delocalization and inductive effects; dipolar interactions, chelation, polarization, etc. often can be much more important. This affords novel synthetic opportunities. A good example is the development of a basically new type of aromatic substitution chemistry not based on positively charged intermediates. Seebach's injunction, 'Thinking of polar organometallic compounds as carbanions is an impoverishment rather than a simplification' (International Symposium, Chemistry of Carbanions, Durham 1984), stresses the need to consider the metal not only as an integral, but perhaps also as the key component of these reagents. Rather than wandering off as solvated cations and acting as uninvolved spectators, the metals, rather than the anion moieties, can initiate and govern the subsequent reactions. To the founders of this field, e. g. Grignard, Ziegler, Gilman, Wittig, and their followers, the metal was critical. The title of Schlosser's book, 'Polare Organometalle', certainly was apt. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Logic programming and parallel complexity.- The generalized counting method for recursive logic queries.- Restructuring of complex objects and office forms.- Set containment inference.- A domain theoretic approach to higher-order relations.- On the desirability of -acyclic BCNF database schemes.- Update semantics under the domain closure assumption.- Unsolvable problems related to the view integration approach.- Horizontal decompositions based on functional-dependency-setimplications.- Update serializability in locking.- Filtering data flow in deductive databases.- Multidimensional order preserving linear hashing with partial expansions.- Split-freedom and MVD-intersection: A new characterization of multivalued dependencies having conflict-free covers.- Towards online schedulers based on Pre-Analysis Locking.- Query processing in incomplete logical databases.- to the theory of nested transactions.- Entity-relationship consistency for relational schemas.- Modelling large bases of categorical data with acyclic schemes.- Some extensions to the closed world assumption in databases.- Expedient stochastic move-to-front and optimal stochastic move-to-rear list organizing strategies.- The cost of locking.- Theoretical foundation of algebraic optimization utilizing unnormalized relations.- A polynomial-time join dependency implication algorithm for unary multi-valued dependencies.- Interaction-free multivalued dependency sets.- Updating logical databases containing null values.- A new characterization of distributed deadlock in databases. 456 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -During the past several years, research into the frontal divisions of the ocean has been particularly intensive. The significance of this lies not only in the fact that, in the five years from 1976 to 1980, more than 500 papers on this question were published in various journals throughout the world and at least three major international discussions were held (see p. 17). The newness of the discussion of the topic stems from the qualitative reinterpretation of the physical essence of the phenomenon and its role in the ocean, particularly in the processes of mixing and structure formation. While in the past the conventional view of fronts as boundaries between large scale water masses of the ocean only led to the recognition of convenient classi fication limits created by nature itself, there is now a tendency to study oceanic fronts as integral elements of the dynamics of oceanic waters. As we understand it, fronts are being associated more and more with the dynamic and kinematic features which arise when kinetic energy and enstrophy are transmitted through a cascade of scales characterizing various forms of motion of a stratified medium in laterally confined oceanic basins. We are beginning to get a better understanding of the role synoptic-scale oceanic eddies play in the process of frontogenesis in the ocean. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -to MRCP Part I.- Addresses of Royal Colleges.- How to Use this Book.- The Examination.- Examination 1.- Examination 2.- Examination 3.- Examination 4.- Examination 5.- Answers.- Examination 1.- Examination 2.- Examination 3.- Examination 4.- Examination 5. 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -with historical remarks.- General theory of derivations.- Noncommutative vectorfields.- Dissipations.- Additional remarks. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Als ,nervose Schwindsucht' und Ergebnis einer ,Vielzahl von Besorgnissen und Leidenschaften des Geistes' durch den Arzt Richard Morton (1689) zum erstenmal in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur beschrieben, ist die Anorexia nervosa bis heute eine der faszinierendsten Storungen der Leib - Seele - Einheit des Menschen geblieben. Magersucht, Gewich- und Nahrungsmit telphobie, Furcht vor dem Erwachsenwerden, Korperbildstorung, Storung der Geschlechtsrollenidentitiit und hormonelle Stoff wechselstorung sind lediglich einige der Synonyme und erkliiren den Begriffe, in deren konzeptueller Breite sich sowohl die weiterhin offene Diskussion der urn wissenschaftliches Verstand nis der Erkrankung bemiihten Gelehtten widerspiegelt, wie auch die Note derjenigen Fachkriifte, die angesichts der dramatischen Symptomatik und divergierenden Konzepte und Behandlungs vorschliige dazu aufgefordert sind, durch schnelles Eingreifen den destruktiven Verlauf der Erkrankung anzuhalten und wei tergehende therapeutische Hilfe zu planen und umzusetzen. Dies alles vor dem Hintergrund einer anscheinend weiter steigenden Erkrankungshiiufigkeit. Wir konnen davon ausgehen, daB sich die Inzidenz der Erkrankung in der Risikopopulation (vor allem weibliche Jugendliche und junge Frauen im Alter von 12-25 Jahren) wiihrend der zuriickliegenden drei Dekaden vervielfacht hat, und heute eines von hundert Miidchen oder jungen Frauen dieser Altersgruppe ernstlich von der Erkrankung betroffen ist, wiihrend moglicherweise zehn von hundert sich mit leichteren Formen ,anorektogenen Verhaltens' konfrontiert sehen. Beim Nachlesen der Berichte der friihen Beschreiber iiber raschen immer noch die scharfsichtigen Beobachtungen, wenn auch nicht unbedingt (aus heutiger Sicht) die daraus abgeleiteten SchluBfolgerungen. Lasegue (1873) beschrieb bereits die auffal lenden gegenseitigen Einmischungen der Familienmitglieder und wies mit Nachdruck auf die Familienpathologie hin. 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I am proud that this study of the hand appears in the series Exercises in Radiological Diagnosis founded by A. WACKEN HEIM. From time eternal, man has tried to explain the numerous configurations and lines of the hand in order to reveal the true character of a person and to display his life. The importance of the symbolism of the hand is reflected in its role in the cultural life of the old world. Therefore, it is not astanishing that the first book about the hand, by Johannes Hartlieb, was devoted to Chiromancy, and that it was so successful that it went through four editions since the second half of the fifteenth century. When Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895 asked his wife to lay her hand on a photographic plate covered with black paper and exposed it to the radiation he had just discovered, it marked the beginning of radiology. Today the study of the hand concerns only 2%-4% of the activity of radiology. It nevertheless reveals an amazing quantity and variety of pathology. That is the reason for this work. - The authors wishes to thank his friends Y. DIRHEIMER, rheumatolog1st, J. C. DoscH, traumatologist, and G. Fou CHER, surgeon, who provided some of the material for the illustrations. P. BouRJAT VII Contents Part One: Iconography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part Two: Commentary with Corresponding Schemata 117 Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 . . . 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Backing up the pioneering medical researchers and experi menters are the phalanxes and cohorts of practising clinicians in district general hospitals and in general practice who may have to implement and apply any breakthroughs and advances in practical and realistic terms. This they cannot, and should not, be expected to do without careful consideration and analysis. It is essential, therefore, to have regular reviews of the growing points of medicine which are constructively critical as well as being enthusiastic and which can present the issues and implications clearly and fairly to clinicians. The Practical Clinical Medicine series is designed to provide such regular reviews on selected subjects. Each volume is under the charge of an invited editor who selects his team of 4--6 experts. Each contribution is an authoritative, detailed and referenced examination of his topic, is clearly presented in an understandable manner and is practical, relevant and applic able to everyday clinical practice. The series is intended as a means of communication between researchers and practising clinicians. It is dedicated to gener alists who provide primary health care in general practice and to generalists providing secondary medical care in district vii viii Series Editors' Foreword general hospitals. Both are involved in applying good general practical clinical medicine for their patients, but can only succeed in a climate of constant review and examination. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Existence of invariant manifolds for smooth maps with singularities.- Absolute continuity.- The estimation of entropy from below through Lyapunov characteristic exponents.- The estimation of entorpy from above through Lyapunov characteristic numbers.- Plane billiards as smooth dynamical systems with singularities. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John MuIr As recently as 1970 the problem of obtaining optimal estimates for variance components in a mixed linear model with unbalanced data was considered a miasma of competing, generally weakly motivated estimators, with few firm gUidelines and many simple, compelling but Unanswered questions. Then in 1971 two significant beachheads were secured: the results of Rao [1971a, 1971b] and his MINQUE estimators, and related to these but not originally derived from them, the results of Seely [1971] obtained as part of his introduction of the no~ion of quad ratic subspace into the literature of variance component estimation. These two approaches were ultimately shown to be intimately related by Pukelsheim [1976], who used a linear model for the com ponents given by Mitra [1970], and in so doing, provided a mathemati cal framework for estimation which permitted the immediate applica tion of many of the familiar Gauss-Markov results, methods which had earlier been so successful in the estimation of the parameters in a linear model with only fixed effects. Moreover, this usually enor mous linear model for the components can be displayed as the starting point for many of the popular variance component estimation tech niques, thereby unifying the subject in addition to generating answers. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -1 2 Peter Reeve and Lavelle Hanna lSmith Kline & French Laboratories, Research and Development, 709 Swedeland Road, Swedeland, PA 19479, USA 2Department of Microbiology, S-412, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA Trachoma, an infectious keratoconjunctivitis due to chlamydial infection, was one of the earliest recognized clinical entities. References to it have been noted in Egyp tian papyri and in Greco-Roman medical treatises. Since those times it has remained a most important eye infection, and indeed trachoma is still a major cause of blindness in rural communities, affecting probably 6 million people (Dawson). The causal agent of trachoma was identified by Halberstaeter and von Provazek in a much-quoted but little-read paper published over 75 years ago. It was after the isolation and demonstration of the growth of the causal agent of trachoma, Chlamy dia trachomatis, by Tang and his colleagues in China in the late 1950s that there was an enormous increase in our knowledge of these agents. The real explosion of knowledge and interest in Chlamydia, however, has been in the last decade. With the growing awareness of the extraordinary commonness of chlamydial infections, not only in developing countries but also in the highly developed countries, has come a considerable interest from all areas concerned with medical science, from clinicians to molecular biologists. 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Backing up the pioneering medical researchers and experi menters are the phalanxes and cohorts of practising clinicians in district general hospitals and in general practice who may have to implement and apply any breakthroughs and advances in practical and realistic terms. This they cannot, and should not, be expected to do without careful consideration and analysis. It is essential, therefore, to have regular reviews of the growing points of medicine which are constructively critical as well as being enthusiastic and which can present the issues and implications clearly and fairly to clinicians. The Practical Clinical Medicine series is designed to provide such regular reviews on selected subjects. Each volume is under the charge of an invited editor who selects his team of 4--6 experts. Each contribution is an authoritative, detailed and referenced examination of his topic, is clearly presented in an understandable manner and is practical, relevant and applic able to everyday clinical practice. The series is intended as a means of communication between researchers and practising clinicians. It is dedicated to gener alists who provide primary health care in general practice and to generalists providing secondary medical care in district vii viii Series Editors' Foreword general hospitals. Both are involved in applying good general practical clinical medicine for their patients, but can only succeed in a climate of constant review and examination. 172 pp. Englisch.