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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One Introduction to Total Quality Management (TQM).- 1 - Total Quality Management - worldwide effect.- 2 - The management methodology.- 3 - TQM principles.- Two Implementation of TQM.- 4 - The executive/management role.- 5 - TQM structure and top-down requirements.- 6 - Quality policy.- 7 - Measurement.- 8 - Quality improvement teams.- 9 - Education and training.- 10 - Involvement and commitment.- 11 - Supplier strategy.- 12 - Time to market.- 13 - Organizational design.- 14 - Summary.- Three Tools and Techniques for TQM.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Section One - Regulation Of Cell Growth And Development.- The Role of Growth Hormone and Prolactin in Beta-Cell Growth and Regeneration.- The Insulin-Like Growth Factor Family of Peptides, Binding Proteins and Receptors: Their Potential Role in Tissue Regeneration.- The Effects of IGF-I and IGF-II on Cell Growth and Differentiation in the Central Nervous System.- Growth Factor Expression in Normal and Diabetic Rats During Peripheral Nerve Regeneration through Silicone Tubes.- Oncogenes and Cell Growth.- Interferon - A Candidate Mediator of Cell Growth.- Section Two - Models for the Study of Cell Regeneration.- Islet Beta-Cell Regeneration and Reg Genes.- Factors Regulating Islet Regeneration in the Post-Insulinoma NEDH Rat.- Regeneration of Pancreatic Endocrine Cells in Interferon Gamma Transgenic Mice.- Trophic Stimulation of the Ductular-Islet Cell Axis: A New Approach to the Treatment of Diabetes.- Section Three - Induction of Cell Growth and Mechanisms.- Expression of Insulin-Like Growth Factors (IGFs) and Their Binding Proteins (IGF BPs) During Pancreatic Development in Rat, and Modulation of IGF Actions on Rat Islet DNA Synthesis by IGF BPs.- The Partial Isolation and Characterization of Ilotropin, A Novel Islet-Specific Growth Factor.- Expression of Growth Factors in a Pancreatic Islet Regeneration Model.- Role of p21ras in Hormone Signalling and Cell Growth Transformation.- Phosphoinositides and Cell Growth.- The Physiological STOP Pathway: Target Regulation of Axonal Growth.- Cell Calcium Regulation of Myosin I - A Motor for Membrane Movement.- Section Four - Pathogenic and Therapeutic Ramifications.- Amylin Expression in the Pancreatic Beta-Cell.- Studies of Composite Grafts of Fetal Pancreas (FP) and Fetal Liver (FL) in the Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rat.- Contributors.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book contains the contributions of 13 well known specialists in the field of solid state chemistry who had invited as lectures at a 1992 NATO Advanced Study Institute in Erice, Sicily. The chapters of a more general character concern the use of the space group-subgroup relatioship for the recognition of structure families, the crystal chemical formulae (which is a way of denoting simple crystal chemical information in a condensed form), the concepts of atom coordination, atom volume and charge transfer and the physicist's view of the bond strength in the solid which is measured by the crystal orbital overleap population. It is demonstrated for the case of ionic compounds that the bond valence method is superior to the old sum-of-radii method for the prediction of interatomic distances. Simple valence electron rules can be applied to compounds with tetrahedral anion complexes. These rules allow one not only to make predictions on expected structural features of unknown compounds, but also to point out inconsistencies between the reported structure and composition of known comounds. Detailed accounts are presented on the crystal chemistry of the superconducting copper oxids, the sulfosalts, the metal cluster compounds, the silicates and the transition metal borides and related compounds. In the case of intermetallic compounds the intergrowth concept is found to be very useful for an `understanding' of complicated atom arrangements. At the end of each chapter there can be found problems and their solutions. This makes it possible for (advanced) undergraduates in chemistry, physics, metallurgy, materials science and mineralogy to be able to profit from a study of this book.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Overview: Recombination of Atomic Ions; D. Bates. Applications of Recombination; H. Summers, W.J. Dickson. Theoretical Aspects of Recombination: Dielectronic Recombination Theory; K.J. LaGuttuta. Beyond the Standard Computational Method for Dielectronic Recombination of Atomic Ions; M.S. Pindzola, et al. Experimental Measurements 1. ElectronIon Recombination: Early Measurements of Dielectronic Recombination; P.F. Dittner, S. Datz. Dielectronic Recombination Measurements Using the Electron Beam Ion Trap; D.A. Knapp. Laser-Stimulated Radiative Recombination; A. Wolf. Experimental Measurements 2. Ion-Atom Recombination: Resonant Transfer Excitation Associated with Single X-Ray Emission; J.A. Tanis. Dielectronic Excitation and Recombination in Crystal Channels; S. Datz, et al. Resonant Transfer and Excitation in Ion Channelling; M.W. Clark, et al. 17 additional articles. Index.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mesoblast Anlage Fields in the Upper Layer of the Chicken Blastoderm at Stage 5V; H. Bortier, L.C.A. Vakaet. The Avian Marginal Zone and its Role in Early Development; H. Eyal-Giladi. Early Mesoderm Formation in the Mouse Embryo; K.A. Lawson, R.A. Pedersen. Differentiation Capabilities of the Avian Prechordal Head Mesoderm; R. Seifert, et al. On the Differentiation and Migration of the Wolffian Duct in Avian Embryos; M. Jacob, et al. Fibronectins and Embryonic Cell Migration; C. French-Constant, et al. Induction and Pattern Emergence in the Mesoderm; A.G. Jacobson. Segmentation and Compartments in the Vertebrate Embryo; K.M. Bagnall. A Monoclonal Antibody that Reacts with the Ventro-Caudal Quadrant of Newly Formed Somites; J.W. Lash, et al. Relations Between Mesodermal and Neural Segmentation; G.M.W. Cook, R.J. Keynes. Angiogenic Capacity of Early Avian Mesoderm; J. Wilting, et al. 15 additional articles. Index.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Dissipative Processes Accompanying Fracture; J.T. Dickinson, et al. FractoEmission from Ceramics at Cryogenic Temperatures; S. Owaki, et al. The Influence of The Network of Microcracks upon the Crack Propagation Behavior Inside of Transparent Zirconia; K. Ahlborn, et al. Critical Stress of Microcracking in Alumina Evaluated by Acoustic Emission; S. Wakayama, H. Nishimura. Analysis of Precracking Parameters for Single-Edge-Precracked Beam Specimens; S.R. Choi, et al. Elevated-Temperature Fracture Resistances of Monolithic and Composite Ceramics Using Chevron-Notched Bend Tests; A. Ghosh, et al. Reliability of Ceramics Fracture Toughness Measurements by Indentation; S.N. Dub, A.L. Maistrenko. The Indentation Fracture Resistance of Self-Reinforced Mullites; T. Sakai, et al. Cleavage of Ceramic and Mineral Single Crystals; R.A. Schultz, R.C. Bradt. 32 additional articles. Index.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fracture Mechanics and Mechanism of Ceramic Composites; T. Kishi. Effects of Residual Stress and Frictional Sliding on RCurve Behavior in FiberReinforced Ceramics; K. Sekine, Y. Kagawa. A Crack Growth Resistance Model for FiberReinforced Ceramic Materials; L. Zhou, et al. On the Size Effect in Fracture of CeramicCeramic Composite Materials; J. Llorca, M. Elices. Matrix Cracking and Fiber Bridging of Carbon Reinforced Carbon Matrix Composites; M. Sakai, T. Miyajima. Fiber Pullout and Fracture Energy of CFiber/CMatrix Composites; T. Miyajime, M. Sakai. The Crack Growth Resistance of SiCSiC Ceramic Composite Materials; M. Gomina, M.H. Rouillon. Fracture Toughness of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Composites; K. Nakano, et al. RCurve Behavior of Ceramics; R.W. Steinbrech. Crack Face Bridging in Monolithic Spinel; J.C. Hay, K.W. White. 32 additional articles. Index.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 1 Probability, Pseudoprobability, Mean Values.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Pairs of Operators.- 3. Wigner's Pseudodensity.- 4. Probability Spaces.- 5. Quantum Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.- 6. Marcinkiewicz Space and Stationary Functions.- 7. Conclusion.- 2 Local Vacua.- 1. From Bell's Theorem to Where .- 2. Some Basic Facts about Nonlocality.- 3. How to Get Rid of the Wave Function Collapse.- 4. The Physical Nature of the Local Vacuum.- 5. Dirac's Covariant Vacuum as an Example.- 6. Conclusion and Outlook.- 3 Causal Quantum Theory: Why a Nonstarter .- 1. Introduction.- 2. Formalism and Interpretation: An Example.- 3. The 'Copenhagen' Interpretation.- 4. A Logically Possible, Empirically Viable Alternative: Causal Interpretations.- 5. A Modern 'Double-Slit' Experiment.- 6. The Value of an Alternative Interpretation.- 7. Oposing Commitments, Opposing Schools.- 7.1. Cultural Milieux.- 7.2. The Wave-Mechanics Route.- 7.3. The Matrix-Mechanics Route.- 8. Forging the 'Copenhagen' Interpretation.- 9. An Alternative Historical Scenario .- 10. Internal versus External Explanations.- 4 Duality of Fluctuations, Fields, and More.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Duality of Fluctuations.- 2.1. Generalized Wave-Particle Fluctuations.- 2.2. Nonclassical States.- 3. Duality of Fields.- 3.1. Classical Fields.- 3.2. Nonclassical Fields.- 3.3. The Vacuum.- 4. Duality of the Radiation Process.- 4.1. Two Kinds of Radiation Processes.- 4.2. Spontaneous Emission.- 4.3. Stimulated Emission.- 4.4. Stimulation (of Induced Emission): The Blake-Scarl Experiment.- 4.5. Stimulation (of Spontaneous Emission).- 4.6. A Hypothesis.- 5. The Unobservable Wave.- 5.1. Empty Waves and Duality.- 5.2. Blake-Scarl.- 5.3. Selleri and Others.- 5.4. Mückenheim et al.- 5.5. Martinolli-Gozzini.- 5.6. Conclusion.- 6. Discussion: Measurement and Duality.- 6.1. Locality.- 6.2. Unitarity.- 6.3. Duality and Reality.- 5 Dualism within Dualism: Open Questions.- 6 Recent Contributions of Electron Interferometry to Wave-Particle Duality.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Novel Electron-Optical Biprism Interferometer.- 3. Electron Interferometric Verifications of Wave-Particle Duality.- 3.1. Early Experiments: Diffraction at an Edge, Electron Biprism Interferences, and Diffraction by Slits.- 3.2. Novel Experiments.- 7 The Aharonov-Bohm Effect From the Point of View of Local Realism.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Theory of the AB Effect.- 3. Looking Beyond the Mathematical Formalism.- 4. Local Realist Interpretation of the AB Effect.- 8 Are Two-Beam Self-Interferences Mass-Independent Not Thoroughly Known ( ) Role of the Mass.- 1. Introduction and Historical Backgrounds.- 2. Propositions of New Test Experiments.- 2.1. Modified Neutron Double Slits.- 2.2. TSPL versus V Curve.- 2.3. Effect of Source Size.- 2.4. Modified Ion Biprism.- 3. Is the Dirac Assumption Approximate or Not .- 4. Hypothetical Model: The In-flight Transition before Arrival at Detector.- 5. Theoretical Perspectives.- 5.1. Irreversible Microscopic Process.- 5.2. Effect on EPR and Delayed Choice Experiments.- 5.3. Are Roles of the Mass 'Not Thoroughly Known' .- 6. Epistemological Remarks.- 9 Wave Mechanics and Relativity.- 1. Can We Reach Wave Mechanics Starting from Classical Mechanics .- 2. Minimal Conditions of Wave-Particle Dualism: They Are Incompatible with Classical Mechanics and Require Relativity.- 3. A Note about a Reasoning of Hamilton.- 10 Unsharp Particle-Wave Duality in Double-Slit Experiments.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Photon Split-Beam Experiment.- 3. The Unsharp Measuring Process.- 4. Information Theoretical Considerations.- 5. Realization of the Unsharp Joint Measurement of P(A) and P(B).- 6. Neutron Interference Experiments.- 11 Some Arguments against the Existence of de Broglie Waves.- 1. Distinguishing Schrödinger's from de Broglie's Waves.- 2. De Broglie's Initial Concept of de Broglie Waves.- 3. Discussion of Models.- 4. Conclusion.- 12 On the 'Completeness' of Quantum Mechanics.- 1. Background.- 2. Covering Theories: An Ex.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains eight contributions on the common theme of masonry construction. The publication coincides with the retirement of Dr Jacques Heyman from his Professorship of Engineering in the University of Cambridge, and Headship of the University's Engineering Department. It is entirely appropriate to have a collection of papers in honour of Professor Heyman at this time; for he has made signal contributions to our understanding of masonry construction over the past thirty years or so. It is no exaggeration to say that he has radically changed the way in which engineers think about masonry structures, particularly in relation to the old ecclesiastical buildings and bridges. Indeed it is hard to imagine what this subject would be like today in the absence of Professor Heyman's seminal papers.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 1 Introduction.- 2 The Wiggler Field and Electron Dynamics.- 3 Incoherent Undulator Radiation.- 4 Coherent Emission: Linear Theory.- 5 Coherent Emission: Nonlinear Theory.- 6 Sideband Instabilities.- 7 Coherent harmonic Radiation.- 8 Optical Guiding.- 9 OScillator Configurations.- 10 Electromagnetic-wave Wigglers.- 11 Chaos in Free-electron Lasers.- Author Index.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - During the last twenty-five years, the development of the theory of Banach lattices has stimulated new directions of research in the theory of positive operators and the theory of semigroups of positive operators. In particular, the recent investigations in the structure of the lattice ordered (Banach) algebra of the order bounded operators of a Banach lattice have led to many important results in the spectral theory of positive operators. The contributions contained in this volume were presented as lectures at a conference organized by the Caribbean Mathematics Foundation, and provide an overview of the present state of development of various areas of the theory of positive operators and their spectral properties. This book will be of interest to analysts whose work involves positive matrices and positive operators.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - While much has been gained from the traditional legal scholars' doctrinal mode of analysis of the takings issue, this volume is presented in the belief that contributions from scholars from the various schools of thought that comprise Law and Economics can complement the traditional doctrinal approach to law. As the discipline of Law and Economics continues to advance, it remains heterodox; there are several vantage points from which to describe and analyze the interrealtionships between law and economics. It is hoped that the analyses from the several vantage points provided here will complement the prodigous body of existing doctrinal, legal analysis of the takings issue and deepen the understanding of the jurisprudential questions and economic issues surrounding the takings issue. To this end, each contributor to this volume was selected as `representative' of one of the schools of thought comprising Law and Economics. In addition, each contributor was provided with a collection of recent United States Supreme Court cases (those summarized in Chapter 1 of this book) along with President Regan's Executive Order: The sole charge to each contributor was to conduct a legal-economic analysis of the cases and the President's Executive Order from the vantage point of their respective school of thought.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Lecturers: Quantum Symmetries in 2D Massive Field Theories; D. Bernard. On Knot and Manifold Invariants; R. Bott. The Metric Aspect of Noncommutative Geometry; A. Connes, J. Lott. Observables, Superselection Sectors, and Gauge Groups; C. Fredenhagen. Non-Compact WZW Conformal Field Theories; K. Gawedzki. S-Matrix Theory for Black Holes; G. 't Hooft. Whitman Theory for Integrable Systems and Topological Quantum Field Theories; I. Krichever. Quantum Groups in Lattice Models; V. Pasquier. Lagrangian Conformal Models; R. Stora. Seminar Speakers: Integrability Properties of the Collective String Field Theory; J. Avan. Correlational Functions of Local Operators in 2D Gravity Coupled to Minimal Matter; Vl.S. Dotsenko. W-Algebras and Langlands-Drinfeld Correspondence; E. Frenkel. Aspects of Quantizing Lorentz Symmetry; A. Schirrmacher. 11 additional articles. Index.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Student~ interested in world populations and demography inevitably need to know China. As the most populous country of the world, China occupies a unique position in the world population system. How its population is shaped by the intricate interplays among factors such as its political ideology and institutions, economic reality, government policies, sociocultural traditions, and ethnic divergence represents at once a fascinating and challenging arena for investigatIon and analysis. Yet, for much of the 20th century, while population studies have developed into a mature science, precise information and sophisticated analysis about the Chinese population had largely remained either lacking or inaccessible, first because of the absence of systematic databases due to almost uninterrupted strife and wars, and later because the society was closed to the outside observers for about three decades since 1949. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, things have dramatically changed. China has embarked on an ambitious reform program where modernization became the utmost goal of societal mobilization. China could no longer afford to rely on imprecise census or survey information for population-related studies and policy planning, nor to remaining closed to the outside world. Both the gathering of more precise information and access to such information have dramatically increased in the 1980s. Systematic observations, analyses and reporting about the Chinese population have surfaced in the population literature around the globe.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book is the first to combine existing (and different) ecosystem theories into an integral pattern, which shows that systems ecology can offer a full theoretical pattern. This may be of importance for development of ecology, ecosystem theory and environmental science. The holistic view is required to solve global problems.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The motivation for the Workshop on which this book is based was the discovery in recent years of a large number of binary and millisecond radio pulsars, in the galactic disk as well as in globular star clusters, the oldest stellar systems in our galaxy. These discoveries have revolutionized our thinking on many aspects concerning the interior structure and evolution of neutron stars, and have revived the interest in the study of neutron star physics in general. In this book some three dozen of the world's experts in the field of radio pulsars, X-ray binaries, stellar evolution, neutron star interoirs and stellar dynamics review the latest observational discoveries as well as the current theoretical thinking on the formation and physics of binary X-ray sources and of the binary and millisecond pulsars. These include discoveries such as that of the eleven millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, the relativistic effects in the new double neutron star system PSR 1534+12 and spectacular results from Germany's ROSAT X-Ray Observatory.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The continuous wavelet transform has deep mathematical roots in the work of Alberto P. Calderon. His seminal paper on complex method of interpolation and intermediate spaces provided the main tool for describing function spaces and their approximation properties. The Calderon identities allow one to give integral representations of many natural operators by using simple pieces of such operators, which are more suited for analysis. These pieces, which are essentially spectral projections, can be chosen in clever ways and have proved to be of tremendous utility in various problems of numerical analysis, multidimensional signal processing, video data compression, and reconstruction of high resolution images and high quality speech. A proliferation of research papers and a couple of books, written in English (there is an earlier book written in French), have emerged on the subject. These books, so far, are written by specialists for specialists, with a heavy mathematical flavor, which is characteristic of the Calderon-Zygmund theory and related research of Duffin-Schaeffer, Daubechies, Grossman, Meyer, Morlet, Chui, and others. Randy Young's monograph is geared more towards practitioners and even non-specialists, who want and, probably, should be cognizant of the exciting proven as well as potential benefits which have either already emerged or are likely to emerge from wavelet theory.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents a collection of original, multidisciplinary papers written by leading scientists from the various countries of the Pacific rim. The major topics covered are the origins of life in the marine environment; the changing distribution of biological parameters; hydrophysical and hydrochemical processes; and the exploitation of ocean resources and the ensuing consequences. The material is divided into five parts. The Introduction (Part I) gives a comprehensive overview of the research activities of the IOC and related organisations. The following four parts of the book comprise a number of survey papers which deal with specific aspects of marine science in the Pacific Ocean. For researchers and decision makers interested in marine and environmental science with an emphasis on the Pacific Ocean.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book explores aspects of the development and regeneration of the of the rote nervaus system, beginning with fundamental considerations of borneobox genes in vertebrate pattern formation. Two papers em phasize the roJe of mause Hox genes in patterning: the Hox-2 complex in the branchial arches and Hox-7 at later stages of development, par ticularly in the spinal cord and brain. The importance of borneobox genes and other transcription factors in patterning the Drosophila embryo is weil known. With the discovery of homologaus genes in higher verte brates including man, we now possess the molecular tools to begin to investigate the molecular basis of patterning in higher vertebrate em bryos. Interestingly, the last few years have seen the discovery of a number of diverged borneobox genes and other transcription factors in the head, such genes being arranged in a segmental pattern within the developing rhombomeres of the brain and such compartmentalization of expression being extended to their derivatives, tagether with those of the neural crest. More recently, both Hox genes and Pax genes have been described in a segmental arrangement as far torward as the developing forebrain. The majority of the book deals with regeneration of the nervaus system. Several aspects are explored, including ways of promoting central nervous system axons to grow back into a degenerating environment, for example by the use of complex polymeric matrices.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book covers the evolving telecommunications technology which will allow the telecoms network to carry sound, vision, text and computer signals. It examines both the equipment available today and the future possibilities raised by recent developments.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In recent years there has been tremendous activity in computational neuroscience resulting from two parallel developments. On the one hand, our knowledge of real nervous systems has increased dramatically over the years; on the other, there is now enough computing power available to perform realistic simulations of actual neural circuits. This is leading to a revolution in quantitative neuroscience, which is attracting a growing number of scientists from non-biological disciplines. These scientists bring with them expertise in signal processing, information theory, and dynamical systems theory that has helped transform our ways of approaching neural systems. New developments in experimental techniques have enabled biologists to gather the data necessary to test these new theories. While we do not yet understand how the brain sees, hears or smells, we do have testable models of specific components of visual, auditory, and olfactory processing. Some of these models have been applied to help construct artificial vision and hearing systems. Similarly, our understanding of motor control has grown to the point where it has become a useful guide in the development of artificial robots. Many neuroscientists believe that we have only scratched the surface, and that a more complete understanding of biological information processing is likely to lead to technologies whose impact will propel another industrial revolution. Neural Systems: Analysis and Modeling contains the collected papers of the 1991 Conference on Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems (AMNS), and the papers presented at the satellite symposium on compartmental modeling, held July 23-26, 1992, in San Francisco, California. The papers included, present an update of the most recent developments in quantitative analysis and modeling techniques for the study of neural systems.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This unique text, for both the first year graduate student and the newcomer to the field, provides in-depth coverage of the basic principles of data communications and covers material which is not treated in other texts, including phase and timing recovery and echo cancellation. Throughout the book, exercises and applications illustrate the material while up-to-date references round out the work.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Among the space activities of the last three decades satellite communications (SATCOM) has found the widest application in meeting both civil and military communications requirements. Several international, regional and national SATCOM systems of increasing capacity, capability and complexity have been and are being implemented over the years. The latest versions are utilizing such concepts as spot beams, processing transponders in SS-TDMA and operations in different frequency bands including the EHF band. On the military side, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France and NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) have been the only owners and operators of military SATCOM systems in the West. The systems in being and under development use satellites and ground terminals with characteristics which differ from the civilian ones with respect to frequency bands utilised and survivability and interoperability. The SATCOM has given the military users the potential of having much-needed mobility, flexibility and survivability in strategic and tactical communications for land, sea and air operations. It must, however, be said particularly for the military SATCOM systems that they have been evolved in big jumps, both in time and capability, each jump involving the deployment of two or three often specially designed large satellites, large expenses and rather traumatic transition between jumps. Despite these undesirable features these systems did not have the required degree of suevivability and flexibility.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book was developed from the proceedings of the 2nd North American Tan nin Conference held in Houghton, Michigan, June, 1991. The objective of this con ference was to bring together people with a common interest in plant polyphenols and to promote interdisciplinary interactions that will lead to a bet ter understand ing of the importance of these substances. Another objective of this conference was to extend the 'tannin family' by making special efforts to encourage participation by scientists outside the United States, obtain more coverage of the hydrolyzable tannins, and further broaden the scope of coverage from the initial concentration on forestry and forest products. Com parison of the contents of this book with 'Chemistry and Significance of Condensed Tannins' that resulted from the proceedings of the 1st North American Tannin Conference shows the degree that these objectives were met. In developing the second conference, care was taken to assure that this book extends rather than duplicates the coverage of the first conference. Therefore, the two books should be taken together to obtain an up to date coverage of the broad area of chemistry and significance of plant polyphenols. Our thanks go to the authors who so kindly contributed chapters and so pa tiently responded to our requests. We thank the Conference Assistance Staff of Michigan Technological University for their help in planning and conducting the conference.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The papers appearing in this volume reflect the current attention in sediment/water science to five main topics of investigation: Sediment dynamics in estuaries, coastal waters, lakes, reservoirs and rivers; Sediment-associated biological processes; Contaminant accumulation, distribution and geochemistry; Fluxes from sediments; and Element cycling. Contributors address sediment/water interactions related to both fresh and salt water conditions.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Schwierigkeit Mathematik zu lernen und zu lehren ist jedem bekannt, der einmal mit diesem Fach in Berührung gekommen ist. Begriffe wie 'reelle oder komplexe Zahlen, Pi' sind zwar jedem geläufig, aber nur wenige wissen, was sich wirklich dahinter verbirgt. Die Autoren dieses Bandes geben jedem, der mehr wissen will als nur die Hülle der Begriffe, eine meisterhafte Einführung in die Magie der Mathematik und schlagen einzigartige Brücken für Studenten.Die Rezensenten der ersten beiden Auflagen überschlugen sich. 352 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Schwierigkeit Mathematik zu lernen und zu lehren ist jedem bekannt, der einmal mit diesem Fach in Berührung gekommen ist. Begriffe wie 'reelle oder komplexe Zahlen, Pi' sind zwar jedem geläufig, aber nur wenige wissen, was sich wirklich dahinter verbirgt. Die Autoren dieses Bandes geben jedem, der mehr wissen will als nur die Hülle der Begriffe, eine meisterhafte Einführung in die Magie der Mathematik und schlagen einzigartige Brücken für Studenten.Die Rezensenten der ersten beiden Auflagen überschlugen sich.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Schwierigkeit Mathematik zu lernen und zu lehren ist jedem bekannt, der einmal mit diesem Fach in Berührung gekommen ist. Begriffe wie 'reelle oder komplexe Zahlen, Pi' sind zwar jedem geläufig, aber nur wenige wissen, was sich wirklich dahinter verbirgt. Die Autoren dieses Bandes geben jedem, der mehr wissen will als nur die Hülle der Begriffe, eine meisterhafte Einführung in die Magie der Mathematik und schlagen einzigartige Brücken für Studenten.Die Rezensenten der ersten beiden Auflagen überschlugen sich.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Associative rings that possess Morita dualities or self-dualities form the object of this book. They are assumed tohave an identity and modules are assumed unitary. The booksets out to give an extensive introduction to thisclassof rings, covering artinian rings, ring extensions, Azuma-ya's exact rings, and more. Among the interesting resultspresented are a characterization of duality via linear com-pactness, ring extensions with dualities, and exact rings.Some basic knowledge of rings and modules is expected of thereader. 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This text grew up from lecturcs givcn at he t University of Rennes I during the academic year 1988-1989. The main topics covered arc second microlocalization along a agrangian l manifold, defined by Sjostrand in [Sj], and its application to the study of conormal sin gularities for solutions of semilinear hyperbolic partial differential equations, developed by Lebeau [L4]. To give a quite self-contained treatment of these questions, we induded some de velopments about FBI transformations and subanalytic geometry. The text is made oi four chapters. In he t first one, we define the Fourier-Bros-Ingolnitzer transionnation and study its main properties. The second chapter deals with second microlocalization along a lagrangian submanifold, and with upper bounds for the wave front set of traces one may obtain using it. The third chapter is devoted to formulas giving geometric upper bounds for the analytic wave front set and for the ser,ond mic:rosllpport of boundary values of ramified functions. Lastly, the fourth chapter applies the preceding methods to the derivation of theorems about the location of microlocal singularities of solutions of scmilinear wave equations with conormw data, in general geometrical situation. Every chapter begins with a short abstract of its contents, where are collected the bibliograph ical references. Let me now thank all those who made this writing possible. First of all, Gilles Lebeau, from whom I learnt mcrol i ocal analysis, especially through lectures he gave with Yves Laurent at Ecole Normale Superieure in 1982-1983. 108 pp. Englisch.