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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues have often seized on the very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we have deprived our selves of a familiarity with the genuinely 'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those of our own.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Section I / Historical Analyses.- Virtue and Health/Medicine in Pre-Christian Antiquity.- Virtue and Medicine from Early Christianity Through the Sixteenth Century.- Virtue and Medicine During the Enlightenment in Germany.- Virtues, Etiquette, and Anglo-American Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.- Section II / Theories of Virtue.- Virtue and Vice.- Two Cheers for Meno: The Definition of the Virtues.- Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethics.- The Virtues: A Theological Analysis.- Section III / Virtue and medicine.- Virtues and Vices: The Social and Historical Construction of Medical Norms.- The Virtues of Medicine: Meaning and Import.- Virtue and Medicine: A Physician's Analysis.- The Virtuous Physician, and the Ethics of Medicine.- Virtue and the Practice of Nursing.- The Virtuous Patient.- Virtue and Public Health: Societal Obligation and Individual Need.- Section IV / Critique.- What's So Special About the Virtues .- Against Virtue: A Deontological Critique of Virtue Theory in Medical Ethics.- On Medicine and Virtue: A Response.- Notes on Contributors.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The small but growing body of information about auditory processes in infancy is a tribute to the ingenuity and persistence of investigators in this realm. Undeter red by the frequent expressions of boredom, rage, and indifference in their subjects, these investigators nevertheless continue to seek answers to the intrigu ing but difficult questions about the course of auditory development. In the spring of 1981, a group of leading scholars and researchers in audi tion gathered to discuss the topic, Auditory Development in Infancy, at the 11th annual psychology symposium at Erindale College, University of Toronto. They came from both sides of the Atlantic and from various disciplines, including audiology, neurology, physics, and psychology. They shared their views on theory and data, as well as their perspectives from the laboratory and clinic. One unexpected bonus was an unusually distinguished audience of researchers and clinicians who contributed to lively discussion within and beyond the formal sessions.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book originated in the Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Polymeric Liquid Crystals held by the Division of Polymer Chemistry in the framework of the 1983 Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society. At the First Symposium in 1977, the literature in this field could be encompassed in a single volume. To day, that is no longer possible. The field of Polymeric Liquid Crystals grew, and continues to grow, at a very rapid pace. At present, we know of every major mesophase in its polymeric form and of polymeric glasses, elastomers and fluids in their liquid crystalline form. Every year, new polymeric mesophases are being discovered. The aim of this book is to go beyond a compilation of papers presented at the 1983 ACS Fall Meeting. It is conceived as a learning tool for the benefit of the sci entist interested in Polymeric Liquid Crystals. The book is divided into three sections. The first section contains articles discussing synthetic, physico chemical, structural and rheological aspects of Polymeric Liquid Crystals in their generality. A chapter on methods currently used in this field is also included. There are also chapters on theoretical and classification aspects of PLCs. These self-contained tutorial chapters provide an introduction to this field as well as to the specific papers given in the book. They provide an exhaustive cover age of literature on the subject from its inception to the present.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The effects of meteorological phenomena upon forest produc tivity and forestry operations have been of concern for many years. With the evolution of system-level studies of forest eco system structure and function in the International Biological Program and elsewhere, more fundamental interactions between forest ecosystems and the atmosphere received scientific atten tion but the emphasis on meteorological and climatological effects on forest processes remained. More recently, as recogni tion has developed of potential and actual problems associated with the atmospheric transport, dispersion, and deposition of airborne pollutants, the effects of forest canopies upon boundary-layer meteorological phenomena has come under scientific scrutiny. Looking to the future, with rising atmospheric con centrations of C02 and increasing competition for the finite fresh-water resources of the earth, interest in the role of forests in global C02 and water balances can also be expected to intensify. Thus, the nature of forest canopy-atmosphere interac tions, that is to say, the meteorological phenomena occurring in and above forest canopies, are of importance to a wide variety of scientific and social-issues. Demands for forest meteorological information currently exceed levels of knowledge and given the economic constraints of science in general and environmental sciences in particular, chances for major improvements in scien tific support in the near future are slim. Unfortunately, studies of environmental phenomena in and above forests are costly and logistically difficult. Trees, the ecological dominants of forest ecosystems, are the largest of all terrestrial organisms.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The nucleotide sequence of the gene from which messenger RNA mole cules are transcribed is in a form that can be translated by cellular ribosomes into the amino acid sequence of a particular polypeptide, the product of the gene. The discovery of messenger RNA more than twenty years ago led to a series of studies on its organization and function in cells in the presence of infecting viruses. This volume is devoted to current studies in the field of cellular and viral messenger RNA. The studies presented provide an insight into molecular and genetic aspects of messenger RNA. Special attention was paid by the authors to the molecular organization of mRNA species, to the processing of mRNA molecules, and to the different strategies employed by DNA and RNA viruses in the synthesis of their mRNA. The ability of a virus to take over the protein-synthesizing mechanisms of an infected cell depends on its ability to produce mRNA molecules which can affect the host mRNA or utilize cellular components more efficiently. The differences between, and similarities of, the strategies of mRNA synthesis devised by various DNA and RNA viruses are described herein. This book should be of interest to all students of cellular and viral genes and scientists in the field. It is suitable as a textbook for workshops and courses on mRNA. I wish to thank the authors for their fine contributions and for their interest.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We stand today on the threshold of a new understanding of cancer. Primarily through the powerful tools of molecular biology, unified hypotheses explaining the origins of the disease are emerging and rapidly being validated. This volume, which presents the latest findings from laboratories throughout the world on the role of RNA tumor viruses in cancer, is a celebration of these achievements and a prediction of further progress leading ultimately to the control of the disease. It is important in this context to recall the natural history or life cycle of RNA cancer virology. From the earliest days of the science, when viruses were first recognized as distinct biologic agents of etiologic significance, their role in cancer was proposed and hotly debated. The critical early discoveries, even those made as recently as 25 years ago, were met with rejection; not skepticism or cautious restraint, but outright rejection. During the 60's, there was a gradual acceptance of the association between viruses and cancer, the result of landmark studies in experimental systems, and this led to a frenzy of activity in the field. There followed another period of doubt and uncertainty, due to the difficulty in attempting to apply directly, and in retrospect inappropriately, the tenets of infectious disease to human cancers, only to have the field resurrected, revitalized and redirected by the explosion of progress in molecular biology and genetics.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A recent comprehensive study of stress and human health by the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences concludes that individuals who experience any of a wide range of stressful events or situations are at increased risk of developing a physical or mental disorder, including heart disease. Since cardiovascular disease continues to be a leading cause of illness and death, and since the etiology and pathogenesis of several of the commonest forms of heart disease are incompletely known, it is of fundamental impor tance to study the potential role of stress in the genesis of heart disease. Accordingly an International Symposium on Stress and Heart Disease was held in Winnipeg, Canada, June 26-29, 1984 and the proceedings form the basis of this book and its companion volume, 'Stress and Heart Disease'. The connection between stress (the behavioral sciences) and heart disease (the biomedical sciences) occurs in the mechanisms through which the brain affects or controls the endocrine and the autonomic nervous systems. Initially this linkage appeared to be relatively simple, mainly involving catecholamines and corticosteroids, and communication between nerve cells was thought to be electrical. Now knowledge has increased and concepts have change dramatic ally. Major advances have occurred in biochemical, anatomical, physiological, pharmacological, pathological and behavioral aspects of the neuroendocrine system. The over whelming significance of chemical communication in the nli xviii nervous system has become clear.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It has been known or suspected for centuries that there is an association between mind and emotions and the occurrence of heart disease apd sudden death. During the past fifty years this relationship has become identified with the concept of Stress, a notion developed and popularized by Hans Selye. In recent years there has been an upward surge of interest in stress by scientists in several disciplines and by the general public. Although, books, journal articles, seminars and media programs devoted to stress now abound, the definition, manifestations, mechanisms, and management of stress remain uncertain and controversial. In an attempt to clarify the situation an International Symposium on Stress and Heart Disease was held in Winnipeg, Canada, June 26-29, 1984, and the proceedings form the basis of this book and its companion volume 'Patho genesis of Stress-Induced Heart Disease'. Although most species which have ever existed are now extinct through countless millenia, the human species has successfully adapted to changing conditions ('stressors') such as ice ages, predators and parasites, wars, famine and plague, and now it is coping with rapidly changing social, economic and political circumstances. Such adaptation occurs at all levels of life- at the molecular level within the cell, at the level of the whole cell, in the groups of cells as organs, in the entire organism or individual, and in some cases, in the society in which the individual lives.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ) Several of these essays were written because of the impetus afforded by speaking invitations. An earlier version of Chapter 3 was presented in Berkeley in January 1983 at a Principal Investi gators' Conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis, Technology Assessment and Risk Assessment Group. In May 1982, an earlier version of Chapter 5 was presented at the meeting of the Society for Philos ophy and Technology, held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association meeting, Western Division, in Columbus, Ohio. Finally, earlier versions of Chapter 6 were presented in Boston in December 1981 at the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, as well as at the University of Delaware in January 1982 and at the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association held in Philadelphia in October 1982. An earlier version of this same chapter was published in Philosophy of Science Association 82, volume 1, ed. T. Nickles, Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, Michigan, 1982. A number of people have helped to make this book better than it might have been. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These Proceedings contain a large part of the papers presented at the International Conference 'Mathematics in Biology and Medicine' organized by the Dipartimento di Matematica and the Istituto di Igiene at the University of Bari, Italy, July 18-22, 1983. The main objective of the Conference was to bring together scientists in pure and applied mathematics and scientists in biology and medicine. The purpose was to exchange ideas and discuss the common problems encoun~red in the formulation, ana lysis and numerical treatment of mathematical models in the biomedical sciences. Si mulation methods and problems of validation of models vs. experimental data were al so treated. SUrveys on recent mathematical results motivated by biological questioffi were given. Altogether,we think that a balance between mathematical and biomedical aspects was maintained. The Scientific Committee consisted of E. Biondi (Milano), P. Colli-Franzone (Udine), I. Galligani (Bologna), M. Iannelli (Trento), G. Koch (Roma), E. Marubini (Milano), C. Matessi (Pavia), M. Primicerio (Firenze), L.M. Ricciardi (Napoli), R. Rinaldi (Milano), A. Zampieri (Roma), and the European Liaison Committee consisted of R.M. Anderson (United Kingdom), N.T.J. Bailey (Switzerland), O. Diekmann (The Netherlands), K. Dietz (F. R. Germany), K.P. Hadeler (F . . R. Germany), J.P. Kernevez (France). 548 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Current problems of determining distances to galaxies.- Multifrequency observations of recent supernovae.- Supernova observations at McDonald observatory.- Spectropolarimetry of supernovae.- Radio emission from a type I supernova.- Radio emission from type II supernovae.- Radio observations of historical, extragalactic supernovae.- Discovery of an entire population of radio supernova candidates in the nucleus of messier 82.- Detecting supernova remnants in external galaxies.- Diameter determinations of radio supernovae and the distance scale.- Supernove interaction with a circumstellar wind and the distance to SN 1979c.- Model and geometry dependence of radio distance determinations of extragalactic supernovae.- Optical supernovae and the hubble constant.- Type I supernovae as standard candles.- Radius and absolute magnitude of a Cepheid variable.- Astrophysical distances to type II supernovae.- Model atmospheres for type I supernovae.- Accuracy of model parameters from spectroscopic fine analyses of supernovae.- Physical models for type I supernovae and the distance scale.- A preliminary discussion of Hose-Einstein diffusion in supernovae.- Supernovae up close. 240 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Quantum chromodynamics.- Bag models.- Equation of state.- Formation and decay.- Plasma signatures.- Lattice gauge theory.- Mean field theory.- Interactions in the plasma.- Global colour symmetry.- Quark - Gluon transport theory.- Relativistic hydrodynamics.- Strangeness production. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Preliminary analysis.- Dynamical systems and amenable groups.- Ergodic theorems.- Entropy of abstract dynamical systems.- Entropy as a function and the variational principle.- Statistical mechanics on a lattice.- Dynamical systems in statistical mechanics.- Equivalence of countable amenable groups.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 160 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -General considerations.- Overall rules of usage.- Data storage.- File handling.- Run-time error messages.- Miscellaneous.- Function BESSEL.- Function FACTOR.- Function INDATA.- Function LCNTIN.- Function LCNVRT.- Function LENGTH.- Function LOCATE.- Function RANDOM function RNDSET function RNDGET.- Function RGAUSS.- Function SPLINE function SMOOTH.- Function STITLE function WTITLE.- Function TCTFFT.- Function TRANSF.- Function TREXEC.- Function TREXTN.- Function TSACCF.- Function TSAFLT.- Function TSARMA.- Function TSARPR.- Function TSASPC.- Function TSCCCF.- Function TSCSPC.- Function TSDAMP.- Function TSDIFF.- Function TSFLTR.- Function TSIRFE.- Function TSLLSE.- Function TSLPSS.- Function TSMMNT.- Function TSMPMA.- Function TSMSPC.- Function TSMVAC.- Function TSMVCC.- Function TSNNLN.- Function TSPACF.- Function TSPERF.- Function TSPOLF.- Function TSSBNO.- Function TSSHFT.- Function TSSSDF.- Function TSSTND.- Function TSSTVL.- Function TSSUMS.- Function TSTAPE.- Function TSTEXS.- Function TSTFFT.- Function TSTFPE.- Function TSWHIT.- Function TSWNDW function WINDOW.- Function WARRAY.- Function WERROR.- Function WSCATT.- Function WTPLOT.- Function WVALUE function WSTRNG.- Function XBSRCH.- Function XCNVRT.- Function XFRCTL.- Function XFSORT.- Function XGMINV.- Function XKAISR.- Function XQSORT.- Function XSMEIG.- Function XSMINV.- Function XSSORT.- Function XSTORE.- Function XX2TAB.- Function XXCHSQ.- Function YRMODA.- Function ZMODEL.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The time optimal control of variational inequalities. dynamic programming and the maximum principle.- Some singular perturbation problems arising in stochastic control.- Some results on stationary Bellman equation in Hilbert spaces.- A stochastic control approach to some large deviations problems.- Towards an expert system in stochastic control: Optimization in the class of local feedbacks.- Optimal control and viscosity solutions.- Some control problems of degenerate diffusions with unbounded cost.- On some stochastic optimal impulse control problems.- Approximation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in deterministic control theory. An application to energy production systems.- Dynamic programming for optimal control problems with terminal constraints.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Specification and top down design of distributed systems.- Specification languages for distributed systems.- Semantically based programming tools (Summary).- From function level semantics to program transformation and optimization.- Inductively defined functions.- Three approaches to type structure.- On the maximum size of random trees.- Fast searching in a real algebraic manifold with applications to geometric complexity.- Typed categorical combinatory logic.- A path ordering for proving termination of term rewriting systems.- A rewrite rule based approach for synthesizing abstract data types.- 'Delayability' in proofs of strong normalizability in the typed lambda Calculus.- Bisimulations and abstraction homomorphisms.- A metric characterization of fair computations in CCS.- A complete modal proof system for a subset of SCCS.- Amalgamation of graph transformations with applications to synchronization.- Decompilation of control structures by means of graph transformations.- Synchronized bottom-up tree automata and L-systems.- On observational equivalence and algebraic specification.- Parameter preserving data type specifications.- On the parameterized algebraic specification of concurrent systems.- The semantics of shared submodules specifications.- Why Horn formulas matter in computer science: Initial structures and generic examples.- On the implementation of abstract data types by programming language constructs.- A LISP compiler for FP language and its proof via algebraic semantics.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 436 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -PSI: A petri net based simulator for flexible manufacturing systems.- Modelling and validation of complex systems by coloured petri nets application to a flexible manufacturing system.- Concurrency axioms and D-continuous posets.- Frozen tokens and D-continuity: A study in relating system properties to process properties.- Modelling scheduling problems with timed petri nets.- Infinite behaviour and fairness in petri nets.- Petri net based models for the specification and validation of protocols.- A note on observable occurrence nets.- A lattice theoretic view of K-density.- Fair serializability of iterated transactions using fifo-nets.- Csp-programs as nets with individual tokens.- Design and programming of interfaces for monetic applications using petri nets.- Towards reachability trees for high-level petri nets.- The residue of vector sets with applications to decidability problems in petri nets.- The design of a program package for an introductory petri net course.- On communication protocol modelling and design.- On structural properties of generalized processes.- Stepwise construction of non-sequential software systems using a net-based specification language.- Liveness and duality in marked-graph-like predicate/transition nets.- Semantics of concurrent systems: A modular fixed-point trace approach.- The reachability problem for VAS.- K-density, N-density, and finiteness properties.- A net model of a local area network protocol.- In praise of free choice nets.- Computation of flows for unary-predicates/transitions-nets.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 480 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -On the relevance of formal methods to software development.- Combining algebraic and predicative specifications in Larch.- The role of proof obligations in software design.- Functional semantics of modules.- Intuition in software development.- A rational design process: How and why to fake it.- Formalization in systems development.- Specifying and prototyping: Some thoughts on why they are successful.- A formal specification of line representations on graphics devices.- Experiences with the PSG - Programming System Generator.- Software construction using typed fragments.- Graph grammar engineering: A method used for the development of an integrated programming support environment.- Multidimensional tree-structured file spaces.- A theory of abstract data types for program development: Bridging the gap .- Program development and documentation by informal transformations and derivations.- ASSPEGIQUE: An integrated environment for algebraic specifications.- Application of PROLOG to test sets generation from algebraic specifications.- A PROLOG environment for developing and reasoning about data types.- Algebraic specification of synchronisation and errors: A telephonic example.- Modelling concurrent modules.- Synthesis of parallel programs invariants.- Analyzing safety and fault tolerance using Time Petri nets.- Algebraic specification of a communication scheduler.- The integration and distribution phase in the software life cycle.- Formalized software development in an industrial environment.- Object oriented concurrent programming and industrial software production.- Experience of introducing the Vienna development method into an industrial organisation.- EDP system development methodology: Auditability and control.- Experiences with object oriented programming.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 476 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -1 The Ethernet.- 2 The token ring.- 3 The Cambridge Ring.- 4 Access units.- 5 Performance issues.- 6 Communications protocols.- 7 File servers.- 8 Protection.- 9 The Cambridge distributed computing system.- 10 Network operating systems.- 11 Synchronization.- 12 Lan internetworking.- 13 Wide area internetworking.- 14 Real-time protocols.- 15 Specification in distributed systems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 512 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The proposed book is one of a series called 'A Course of Higher Mathematics and Mathematical Physics' edited by A. N. Tikhonov, V. A. Ilyin and A. G. Sveshnikov. The book is based on a lecture course which, for a number of years now has been taught at the Physics Department and the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University. The exposition reflects the present state of the theory of differential equations, as far as it is required by future specialists in physics and applied mathematics, and is at the same time elementary enough. An important part of the book is devoted to approximation methods for the solution and study of differential equations, e.g. numerical and asymptotic methods, which at the present time play an essential role in the study of mathematical models of physical phenomena. Less attention is paid to the integration of differential equations in elementary functions than to the study of algorithms on which numerical solution methods of differential equations for computers are based.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Noisy systems and folded maps.- Nearly chaotic behavior on finite point sets.- Structural stable patterns and elementary catastrophes.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ) Several of these essays were written because of the impetus afforded by speaking invitations. An earlier version of Chapter 3 was presented in Berkeley in January 1983 at a Principal Investi gators' Conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Division of Policy Research and Analysis, Technology Assessment and Risk Assessment Group. In May 1982, an earlier version of Chapter 5 was presented at the meeting of the Society for Philos ophy and Technology, held in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association meeting, Western Division, in Columbus, Ohio. Finally, earlier versions of Chapter 6 were presented in Boston in December 1981 at the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, as well as at the University of Delaware in January 1982 and at the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association held in Philadelphia in October 1982. An earlier version of this same chapter was published in Philosophy of Science Association 82, volume 1, ed. T. Nickles, Philosophy of Science Association, East Lansing, Michigan, 1982. A number of people have helped to make this book better than it might have been.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The papers contained in this volume were presented orally at the seventh POLYMODEL conference, held at Sunderland Polytechnic in the United King dom in May 1984 and sponsored by Barclays Bank PLC and Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. The conferences are organised annually by the North East of England Polytechnic's Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation Group - POLYMODEL. The Group is a non-profit making organisation based on the mathematics department of the three polytechnics in the region and has membership drawn from those educational institutions and from regional industry. Its objective is to promote research and collaboration in mathematical and computer-based modelling. After a short introductory chapter, the volume may be considered as dividing naturally into four parts. Chapters 2 to 5 constitute the first part on Tides, Storm Surges and Coastal Circulations which deals with the hydrodynamics of coastal seas. Chapters 6 to 11 concern Coastal Engine ering Modelling and discuss such coastal phenomena as beach erosion, sediment transport, and non-linear waves. The third part (Chapters 12 to 16) on Offshore Structures considers sea structures in general and the connections between the structures (hoses, moorings, pipelines) in particular. The last two chapters focus on Offshore Corrosion problems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -I. - Population Genetics and Ecology.- Invited Papers.- The role of diffusion in mathematical population biology: Skellam revisited.- The dynamics of structured populations: some examples.- Mathematical problems in the description of age structured populations.- Contributed Papers.- Models for mutual attraction and aggregation of motile individuals.- A problem on invariant manifolds arising in population genetics.- On a mathematical problem arising in cell population biology.- The external memory of intertidal molluscs:a theoretical study of trail-following.- Stationary distributions for populations subject to random catastrophes.- A nonlinear diffusion equation in phytoplankton dynamics with self-shading effects.- A model of aphid population with age structure.- On two-population models with switching depletion.- On some nonlinear diffusion models in population dynamics.- Reduction of the gene Flow of a 'neutral' linked gene due to the partial sterility of heterozygotes for a chromosome mutation.- Predator-mediated coexistence of competing species in a Volterra model.- On a nonlinear problem arising from interaction of algae with light.- II. - Epidemics.- Invited Papers.- Congenital rubella syndrome (C.R.S.): models of disease control by vaccination.- A simulation model for the control of helminth diseases by chemotherapy.- Models for endemic diseases.- Stochastic epidemics as point processes.- Contributed Papers.- A computer simulation program for the assessment of multistate epidemiological models of infectious diseases.- Mathematical model of hepatitis B.- Models of the interaction of host genotypes and infectious disease.- On the general epidemic model in discrete time.- Control of virus transmission in age-structured populations.- Parameter estimationand validation for an epidemic model.- Local stability in epidemic models for heterogeneous populations.- III. - Resource Management.- Invited Papers.- Bayesian methods in ecology and resource management.- Contributed Papers.- Stochastic differential equation models of fisheries in an uncertain world: extinction probabilities, optimal fishing effort, and parameter estimation.- IV. - Physiology and Medicine.- Invited Papers.- Experiment designs identification of simple and complex models of endocrine-metabolic systems.- A mathematical model for cardiac electric sources and related potential fields.- Mathematical analysis of immobilized enzyme systems.- Contributed Papers.- Modeling controls and variability of the cell cycle.- The phase resetting characteristics of endogenously active neurones.- Theory of DNA superhelicity.- Determination of DNA synthesis rate in cell populations with locally exponential S-phase influx.- A numerical study for a cell system.- Experimental validation of a mathematical procedure for the analysis of flow cytometric data.- A stochastic model for describing the space-time evolution of the extreme values of cardiac potentials on the chest surface.- Statistical analysis of the coding capacity of complementary DNA strands.- Mass transport across multimembrane systems: a general analysis.- Time hierarchy in oscillating metabolic systems.- Modeling of the interaction between ligands and cell membrane receptors in the presence of exogenous electric fields.- Balance of growth models of cell populations: the significance of simple mathematical considerations.- The age structure of populations of cells reproducing by asymmetric division.- Numerical simulation of reentry of the activation wave in the heart hiss bundle.- Hopf bifurcation and therepetitive activity of excitable cells.- Nonlinear evolution equations with a convolution term involved in some neurophysiological models.- Investigation of rapid metabolic reactions in whole organs by multiple pulse Labelling.- Cross-linking of identical particles by multiple ligand-types.- Enumeration of RNA secondary structures by complexity.- Growth of.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Quantum chromodynamics.- Bag models.- Equation of state.- Formation and decay.- Plasma signatures.- Lattice gauge theory.- Mean field theory.- Interactions in the plasma.- Global colour symmetry.- Quark - Gluon transport theory.- Relativistic hydrodynamics.- Strangeness production.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 156 pp. Englisch.