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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 1. INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1975 we held an international workshop on the Foundations and Application of Decision Theory at the University of Western Ontario. To help structure the workshop into ordered and manageable sessions we distri buted the following statement of our goals to all invited participants. They in turn responded with useful revisions and suggested their own areas of interest. Since this procedure provided the eventual format of the sessions, we include it here as the most appropriate introduction to these collected papers result ing from the workshop. The reader can readily gauge the approximation to our mutual goals. 2. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE (Attached to this statement is a bibliography; names of persons cited in the statement and writing in this century will be found referenced in the biblio graphy - certain 'classics' aSide. ) 2. 1. Preamble We understand in the following the Theory of Decisions in a broader sense than is presently customary, construing it to embrace a general theory of decision-making, including social, political and economic theory and applica tions. Thus, we subsume the Theory of Games under the head of Decision Theory, regarding it as a particularly clearly formulated version of part of the general theory of decision-making.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 1. INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1975 we held an international workshop on the Foundations and Application of Decision Theory at the University of Western Ontario. To help structure the workshop into ordered and manageable sessions we distri buted the following statement of our goals to all invited participants. They in turn responded with useful revisions and suggested their own areas of interest. Since this procedure provided the eventual format of the sessions, we include it here as the most appropriate introduction to these collected papers result ing from the workshop. The reader can readily gauge the approximation to our mutual goals. 2. STATEMENT or OBJECTIVES AND RATIONALE (Attached to this statement is a bibliography; names of persons cited in the statement and writing in this century will be found referenced in the biblio graphy - certain 'classics' aside. ) 2. 1. Preamble We understand in the following the Theory of Decisions in a broader sense than is presently customary, construing it to embrace a general theory of deciSion-making, induding social, political and economic theory and applica tions. Thus, we subsume the Theory of Games under the head of Decision Theory, regarding it as a particularly clearly formulated version of part of the general theory of decision-making.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Definitions and basic results.- Some recently solved problems.- Some (catenary) chain conjectures.- The chain conjecture.- The Depth Conjecture and the weak Depth Conjecture.- The H-conjecture.- The descended GB-conjecture and the GB-conjecture.- The strong avoidance conjecture and the avoidance conjecture.- The upper conjecture.- The taut-level conjecture.- The catenary chain conjecture.- The normal chain conjecture.- Comments on (3.3.1) and conjecture (K).- Some examples.- Some related questions. 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -L¿wner-functions.- Generalized L¿wner-functions.- A generalization of the class S(b).- Functions with bounded boundary rotation.- Variation of Green's function.- The schiffer-condition for S(b)-functions.- The coefficient a3.- The power inequality.- Application to the coefficient a3 and a4.- Optimization of parameters for N=1.- Optimization in the case N=3.- The power inequality.- On generalizing the power inequality. 328 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Euler equation and burger equation - Relation with turbulence.- Asymptotic behavior of a model in population genetics.- A minimax principle and applications to elliptic partial differential equations.- The existence of periodic water waves.- An application of the Nash-moser theorem to a free boundary problem.- Singularities in non-linear waves of Klein-Gordon type.- Bifurcations of dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations in engineering systems. 220 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Les fonctions semi-continues inferieurement et la theorie des mesures cylindriques.- Absolute continuity for a class of probability measures.- On the covariance tensor.- Some aspects of the theory of vectorvalued amarts.- A note on conditional probabilities of a convex measure.- Tail probabilities in Gauss space.- Le role des partitions continues de l'unite dans la theorie des mesures scalaires ou vectorielles.- Tensor product of Gaussian measures.- Quelques nouveaux resultats sur les mesures cylindriques.- Differential invariants of measures on Banach spaces.- Transition probabilities for vector-valued Brownian motion with boundaries.- Logarithmic sobolev inequalities ¿ A survey.- Quelques remarques relatives au theoreme central-limite dans C(S).- Methodes holomorphes et methodes nucleaires en analyse de dimension infinie et en theorie quantique des champs.- Some exponential moments with applications to density estimation, the empirical distribution function, and lacunary series.- Differential calculus for measures on Banach spaces.- ¿uations aux d¿v¿ partielles en dimension infinie.- Characterization of Banach space through validity of Bochner theorem.- A necessary condition for the central limit theorem on spaces of stable type.- On the Radon-Nikodym theorem.- Application de la theorie de la mesure en dimension infinie a la resolution de l'equation sur un espace de Hilbert.- Spaces of vector-valued continuous functions.- Quasi-invariant measures on R and their Ergodic decomposition.- Commutative Wick algebras I. The Bargmann, Wiener and Fock algebras.- Some weak laws of large numbers for probability measures on vector spaces.- Some applications of vector space measures to non-relativistic quantum mechanics.- The Radon-Nikodym property: a point of view. 464 pp. Englisch, Französisch.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Convergence presque partout des suites de fonctions mesurables et applications.- On the completion of vector measures.- Stochastic processes and commutation relationships.- Some results with relation to the control measure problem.- On measurable and partitionable vector valued multifunctions.- Analytic evolution equations in Banach spaces.- On the radon-Nikodym-property and martingale convergence.- On the Radon-Nikodym-property, and related topics in locally convex spaces.- Relations entre les proprietes de mesurabilite universelle pour un espace topologique T et la propriete de Radon-Nikodym pour le cone positif des mesures de Radon (resp, de Baire) sur T.- Stability of tensor products of radon measures of type ( ).- The strong Markov property for canonical Wiener processes.- Random linear functionals and why we study them.- Control measure problem in some classes of F-spaces.- Application des propri¿s des fonctions plurisousharmoniques a un probl¿ de mesure dans les espaces vectoriels complexes.- A maximal equality and its application in vector spaces.- Representation of analytic functionals by vector measures.- Liftings of vector measures and their applications to RNP and WRNP.- Integral representations in conuclear spaces.- Boundedness problems for finitely additive measures.- Vector measures and the ito integral.- Infinitely divisible stochastic differential equations in space-time.- Strong measurability, liftings and the Choquet-Edgar theorem. 232 pp. Englisch, Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A few years aga the European Centre for Population Studies took the initiative in organizing a regular series of seminars which had the study of the demographie situation in Europe as goal. The First European Population Seminar took place in September of World Population Year 1974 in Karpacz, Poland and had as its topic 'Urbanization and Population Growth in Europe' . A grant from the United Nations Fund for Population Aetivities made organizing this first seminar possible. In December 1976 the Seeond European Population Seminar was held in the Hague, The Netherlands. The ehoiee of topie for this seminar was a eombination of themes from the World Population Year 1974 and the International Women' s Year 1975. In both the World Population Plan as adopted at the World Population Conferenee in Bucharest and the World Plan of Action of the World Conferenee of the International Women's Year in Mexieo City, one finds the point of departure that a relation exists between demographie phenomena and the status of women. The subjeet of the seeond seminar was therefore formulated as: 'Demographie Aspeets of the Changing Status of Women in Europe' . The Netherlands Demographie Soeiety, the Belgian Demographie Soeiety (Duteh-speaking seetionl and the European Centre for Population Studies ae ted as organizers, while two Duteh and one Belgian ministry provided subsidies. Finally, the institutional support of the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographie Soeiety and the Nether1ands Central Bureau of Statisties simplified organizing the seminar a great deal. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this volume, for the first time, a dozen of papers is collected dealing with almost all important aspects of ion cyclotron resonance spectrometry. The ICR technique was developed very rapidly in the last two decades. It seems to the editors that the method is now established well enough to dedicate a progress report to it. This report is devided into three parts: The first articles pre sent new developments in the theory of ICR spectrometry. They are fol~ lowed by papers on r.ecent developments of the experimental technique. About half of the volume is dedicated to applications of ICR spectrome try to reactivity, reaction mechanism and structure in the chemistry of thermal ions. The editors are indebted to Mrs. A. Tin for typewrfting most of the manuscript and to Mrs. E. Jacke for reproduction of Figures appearing in the volume. Hermann Hartmann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz Karl-Peter Wanczek Institut für physikalische Chemie Universität, Frankfurt/Main Contents Line Shapes in Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectra A. H. Huizer and W. J. van der Hart 1 Quantum Mechanical Description of Collision Dominated Ion Cyclotron Resonance H. Hartmann and K.-M. Chung 17 Improvement of the Electric Potential in the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Cell J. Urakawa, H. Shibata and M. Inoue 33 Thermodynamic Information from Ion-Molecule Equilibrium Constant Determinations S. G. Lias 59 Pulsed Ion Cyclotron Resonance Studies with a One-Region Trapped Ion Analyzer Cell R. T. McIver, Jr. 336 pp. Englisch.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Hypothesis formation is known as one of the branches of Artificial Intelligence, The general question of Artificial IntelligencE' ,'Can computers think ' is specified to the question ,'Can computers formulate and justify hypotheses ' Various attempts have been made to answer the latter question positively. The present book is one such attempt. Our aim is not to formalize and mechanize the whole domain of inductive reasoning. Our ultimate question is: Can computers formulate and justify scientific hypotheses Can they comprehend empirical data and process them rationally, using the apparatus of modern mathematical logic and statistics to try to produce a rational image of the observed empirical world Theories of hypothesis formation are sometimes called logics of discovery. Plotkin divides a logic of discovery into a logic of induction: studying the notion of justification of a hypothesis, and a logic of suggestion: studying methods of suggesting reasonable hypotheses. We use this division for the organization of the present book: Chapter I is introductory and explains the subject of our logic of discovery. The rest falls into two parts: Part A - a logic of induction, and Part B - a logic of suggestion. 416 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In spite of old vintage and 200 years of clinical use, digitalis remains an interesting therapeutic agent, to clinicians as well as to the pharmacologist, the biochemist, and colleagues in other diciplines of theoretic medicine. When a drug, however, has so many attractive facets, it seems proper and aJvis able for the success of a scientific meeting to focus on a number of well-defined aspects. This symposium was devoted to pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, analytic procedures, blood level determinations, and their interpretation both for thera peutic and toxic situations. Considerable progress has been made during the last years in this area of digitalis research. The time was suitable for a critical reap praisal of facts and theories and for future planning. Our main intention was to relate analytic data and biochemical findings to clinical problems and questions. Despite the undoubtedly basic character of clinical pharmacology, it is neverthe less an applied science which should help to develop the rational basis of thera peutics. We are particularly grateful to the active participants who bore the burden of preparing presentations and - even worse - manuscripts. At the same time we are well-aware that many other active research groups would have been able to contribute in this way, but our program was limited because of the short time available. Their knowledge is included in the discussion parts of the meeting, so we hope a well-balanced description of the present state of affairs emerged in this volume. 444 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume is the issue of the symposium 'Theoretical Approaches to Complex systems', held in Tlibingen on June 11 and 12, 1977. The meeting was dedicated to the late Ernst Pfaffelhuber of the Institute for Information Sciences, University of Tlibingen, in memory of his con tributions to information theory, physics, and biology and of his many fruitful contacts with the Tlibingen scientists gathered on this occa sion. We would like to express our gratitude to all participants for their willingness to offer a weekend, for their help and the care they took in writing a contribution to this volume. R. Heim G. Palm CONTENTS Introduction H. Hahn 3 Existence Criteria for Bifurcations as Stability Criteria for Critical Nonlinear Control Systems G. Palm Asymptotic System Analysis and Goal Functions 51 O. E. ROssler and P. J. Ortoleva 57 Strange Attractors in 3-Variable Reaction Systems w. u. an der Heiden 75 Structures of Excitation and Inhibition T. Poggio and V. Torre 89 A new Approach to Synaptic Interactions W. Reichardt Figure-Ground Discrimination by the Visual . . . . . 117 System of the Fly M. Conrad Evolution of the Adaptive Landscape . . 147 V. Braitenberg Cell Assemblies in the Cerebral Cortex . . . 171 D. Varju Excitatory and Inhibitory Processes Giving Rise 189 to the Delayed Response in the Retinal Ganglion Cell of the Frog R. Heim 209 On Constrained Transinformation Functions M. 256 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Definitions and basic results.- Some recently solved problems.- Some (catenary) chain conjectures.- The chain conjecture.- The Depth Conjecture and the weak Depth Conjecture.- The H-conjecture.- The descended GB-conjecture and the GB-conjecture.- The strong avoidance conjecture and the avoidance conjecture.- The upper conjecture.- The taut-level conjecture.- The catenary chain conjecture.- The normal chain conjecture.- Comments on (3.3.1) and conjecture (K).- Some examples.- Some related questions.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession. It had been prepared by Ernest Adams of the Philosophy Department at Berkeley as a handout for a colloquim. Headed 'SOME FALLACIES OF FORMAL LOGIC' it simply listed eleven little pieces of reasoning, all in ordinary English, and all absurd. I still have the sheet, and quote a couple of the arguments here to give the idea. - If you throw switch S and switch T, the motor will start. There fore, either if you throw switch S the motor will start, or, if you throw switch T the motor will start . - It is not the case that if John passes history he will graduate. Therefore, John will pass history. The disconcerting thing about these inferences is, of course, that under the customary truth-functional interpretation of and, or, not, and if-then, they are supposed to be valid. What, if anything, is wrong At first I was not disturbed by the examples. Having at that time consider able personal commitment to rationality in general and formal logic in par ticular, I felt it my duty and found myself easily able (or so I thought) to explain away most of them. But on reflection I had to admit that my expla nations had an ad hoc character, varying suspiciously from example to example. 268 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Euler equation and burger equation - Relation with turbulence.- Asymptotic behavior of a model in population genetics.- A minimax principle and applications to elliptic partial differential equations.- The existence of periodic water waves.- An application of the Nash-moser theorem to a free boundary problem.- Singularities in non-linear waves of Klein-Gordon type.- Bifurcations of dynamical systems and nonlinear oscillations in engineering systems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 220 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Löwner-functions.- Generalized Löwner-functions.- A generalization of the class S(b).- Functions with bounded boundary rotation.- Variation of Green's function.- The schiffer-condition for S(b)-functions.- The coefficient a3.- The power inequality.- Application to the coefficient a3 and a4.- Optimization of parameters for N=1.- Optimization in the case N=3.- The power inequality.- On generalizing the power inequality.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 328 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -200 years of graph theory - A guided tour.- Chromatic number and subgraphs of cayley graphs.- The multicolorings of graphs and hypergraphs.- Irreducible configurations and the four color conjecture.- Numbered complete graphs, unusual rulers, and assorted applications.- Cycles and semi-topological configurations.- Graphs with unique walks, trails or paths of given lengths.- Triangular imbeddings into surfaces of a join of equicardinal independent sets following an Eulerian graph.- Mixed graphs of homomorphisms.- On chromatic equivalence of graphs.- On graphs having prescribed clique number, chromatic number, and maximum degree.- Domination of undirected graphs - A survey.- Some extremal problems for simple two-complexes.- Various length paths in graphs.- Orthogonal groups over GF(2) and related graphs.- Distance matrix polynomials of trees.- Odd cycles and perfect graphs.- Imbeddings of metacyclic cayley graphs.- On the chromatic index and the cover index of a multigraph.- Pruning and depth first search.- Graphs and their degree sequences: A survey.- The bichromaticity of a tree.- On diameter stability of graphs.- Generalized pseudosurface embeddings of graphs and associated block designs.- Powers of graphs, line graphs, and total graphs.- The cartesian product of two graphs is stable.- A note on a generalized regularity condition.- Long and short walks in trees.- Random clumps, graphs, and polymer solutions.- Mixed ramsey numbers: Edge chromatic numbers vs. graphs.- Planar and outerplanar cayley graphs of free groups.- Coloring restrictions.- If a hadamard matrix of order 24 has character exactly 2, its transpose is known.- Cycle lengths in polytopal graphs.- Subgraph connectivity numbers of a graph.- Matchings in graphs III: Infinite graphs.- Steinhaus graphs.-Packing and covering constants for recursive trees.- The minimum degree and connectivity of a graph.- Generalizations of graphical parameters.- Pursuit-evasion in a graph.- Regularity in tournaments.- On graphs of embedding range one.- Non-existence of graph embeddings.- Food webs, competition graphs, and the boxicity of ecological phase space.- Hamiltonian persistency is periodic among iterated line digraphs.- Some problems in ramsey theory.- Exactly thirteen connected cubic graphs have integral spectra.- A counting theorem for topological graph theory.- k-Arc Hamilton graphs.- Hypohamiltonian graphs and digraphs.- Order preserving embeddings of aographs.- Circular arc graphs: New uses and a new algorithm.- Chromatic sums.- Infinite cayley graphs of connectivity one.- Edge-colorings of graphs - A survey.- Menger and könig systems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 656 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Convergence presque partout des suites de fonctions mesurables et applications.- On the completion of vector measures.- Stochastic processes and commutation relationships.- Some results with relation to the control measure problem.- On measurable and partitionable vector valued multifunctions.- Analytic evolution equations in Banach spaces.- On the radon-Nikodym-property and martingale convergence.- On the Radon-Nikodym-property, and related topics in locally convex spaces.- Relations entre les proprietes de mesurabilite universelle pour un espace topologique T et la propriete de Radon-Nikodym pour le cone positif des mesures de Radon (resp, de Baire) sur T.- Stability of tensor products of radon measures of type ( ).- The strong Markov property for canonical Wiener processes.- Random linear functionals and why we study them.- Control measure problem in some classes of F-spaces.- Application des propriétés des fonctions plurisousharmoniques a un problème de mesure dans les espaces vectoriels complexes.- A maximal equality and its application in vector spaces.- Representation of analytic functionals by vector measures.- Liftings of vector measures and their applications to RNP and WRNP.- Integral representations in conuclear spaces.- Boundedness problems for finitely additive measures.- Vector measures and the ito integral.- Infinitely divisible stochastic differential equations in space-time.- Strong measurability, liftings and the Choquet-Edgar theorem.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 232 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Les fonctions semi-continues inferieurement et la theorie des mesures cylindriques.- Absolute continuity for a class of probability measures.- On the covariance tensor.- Some aspects of the theory of vectorvalued amarts.- A note on conditional probabilities of a convex measure.- Tail probabilities in Gauss space.- Le role des partitions continues de l'unite dans la theorie des mesures scalaires ou vectorielles.- Tensor product of Gaussian measures.- Quelques nouveaux resultats sur les mesures cylindriques.- Differential invariants of measures on Banach spaces.- Transition probabilities for vector-valued Brownian motion with boundaries.- Logarithmic sobolev inequalities - A survey.- Quelques remarques relatives au theoreme central-limite dans C(S).- Methodes holomorphes et methodes nucleaires en analyse de dimension infinie et en theorie quantique des champs.- Some exponential moments with applications to density estimation, the empirical distribution function, and lacunary series.- Differential calculus for measures on Banach spaces.- Équations aux dérivées partielles en dimension infinie.- Characterization of Banach space through validity of Bochner theorem.- A necessary condition for the central limit theorem on spaces of stable type.- On the Radon-Nikodym theorem.- Application de la theorie de la mesure en dimension infinie a la resolution de l'equation sur un espace de Hilbert.- Spaces of vector-valued continuous functions.- Quasi-invariant measures on R and their Ergodic decomposition.- Commutative Wick algebras I. The Bargmann, Wiener and Fock algebras.- Some weak laws of large numbers for probability measures on vector spaces.- Some applications of vector space measures to non-relativistic quantum mechanics.- The Radon-Nikodym property: a point ofview.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 464 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -1. Introduction: the seminar's central thesis.- 2. Population and the status of women: results of the Bucharest and Mexico conferences.- 3. The measurement of the status of women.- 4. Divorce and the status of women.- 5. Marriage and marriage dissolution and the changing status of women: the case of Poland.- 6. Changes in Czechoslovak marital fertility.- 7. Marital fertility and the changing status of women in Europe.- 8. Extra-marital fertility and its occurrence in stable unions: recent trends in Western Europe.- 9. Sociological and demographic aspects of the changing status of migrant women in Europe.- 10. Report of the symposium on demographic aspects of the changing status of women in Europe.- Appendix: List of participants.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Hypothesis formation is known as one of the branches of Artificial Intelligence, The general question of Artificial IntelligencE' ,'Can computers think ' is specified to the question ,'Can computers formulate and justify hypotheses ' Various attempts have been made to answer the latter question positively. The present book is one such attempt. Our aim is not to formalize and mechanize the whole domain of inductive reasoning. Our ultimate question is: Can computers formulate and justify scientific hypotheses Can they comprehend empirical data and process them rationally, using the apparatus of modern mathematical logic and statistics to try to produce a rational image of the observed empirical world Theories of hypothesis formation are sometimes called logics of discovery. Plotkin divides a logic of discovery into a logic of induction: studying the notion of justification of a hypothesis, and a logic of suggestion: studying methods of suggesting reasonable hypotheses. We use this division for the organization of the present book: Chapter I is introductory and explains the subject of our logic of discovery. The rest falls into two parts: Part A - a logic of induction, and Part B - a logic of suggestion.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 416 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Existence Criteria for Bifurcations as Stability Criteria for Critical Nonlinear Control Systems.- Asymptotic System Analysis and Goal Functions.- Strange Attractors in 3-Variable Reaction Systems.- Structures of Excitation and Inhibition.- A new Approach to Synaptic Interactions.- Figure-Ground Discrimination by the Visual System of the Fly.- Evolution of the Adaptive Landscape.- Cell Assemblies in the Cerebral Cortex.- Excitatory and Inhibitory Processes Giving Rise to the Delayed Response in the Retinal Ganglion Cell of the Frog.- On Constrained Transinformation Functions.- Self-Diagnosis of Interactive Systems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 256 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Line Shapes in Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectra.- Quantum Mechanical Description of Collision-Dominated Ion Cyclotron Resonance.- Improvement of the Electric Potential in the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Cell.- Thermodynamic Information from Ion-Molecule Equilibrium Constant Determinations.- Pulsed Ion Cyclotron Resonance Studies with a One-Region Trapped Ion Analyzer Cell.- Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopy.- Mechanistic Studies of some Gas-Phase Reactions of O- Ions with Organic Substrates.- Studies in the Chemical Ionization of Hydrocarbons.- Gas-Phase Polar Cycloaddition Reactions.- An Ion Cyclotron Resonance Study of an Organic Reaction Mechanism.- Positive and Negative Ionic Reactions at the Carbonyl Bond in the Gas-Phase.- Ion Chemistry of (CH3)3PCH2, (CH3)3PNH, (CH3)3PNCH3 and (CH3)3PO.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 336 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The purpose of this book is to give an introduction to the Laplace transform on the undergraduate level. The material is drawn from notes for a course taught by the author at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Based on classroom experience, an attempt has been made to (1) keep the proofs short, (2) introduce applications as soon as possible, (3) concentrate on problems that are difficult to handle by the older classical methods, and (4) emphasize periodic phenomena. To make it possible to offer the course early in the curriculum (after differential equations), no knowledge of complex variable theory is assumed. However, since a thorough study of Laplace. transforms requires at least the rudiments of this theory, Chapter 3 includes a brief sketch of complex variables, with many of the details presented in Appendix A. This plan permits an introduction of the complex inversion formula, followed by additional applications. The author has found that a course taught three hours a week for a quarter can be based on the material in Chapters 1, 2, and 5 and the first three sections of Chapter 7. If additional time is available (e.g., four quarter-hours or three semester-hours), the whole book can be covered easily. The author is indebted to the students at the Milwaukee School of Engineering for their many helpful comments and criticisms.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 220 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In 1962 a mimeographed sheet of paper fell into my possession. It had been prepared by Ernest Adams of the Philosophy Department at Berkeley as a handout for a colloquim. Headed 'SOME FALLACIES OF FORMAL LOGIC' it simply listed eleven little pieces of reasoning, all in ordinary English, and all absurd. I still have the sheet, and quote a couple of the arguments here to give the idea. ¿ If you throw switch S and switch T, the motor will start. There fore, either if you throw switch S the motor will start, or, if you throw switch T the motor will start . ¿ It is not the case that if John passes history he will graduate. Therefore, John will pass history. The disconcerting thing about these inferences is, of course, that under the customary truth-functional interpretation of and, or, not, and if-then, they are supposed to be valid. What, if anything, is wrong At first I was not disturbed by the examples. Having at that time consider able personal commitment to rationality in general and formal logic in par ticular, I felt it my duty and found myself easily able (or so I thought) to explain away most of them. But on reflection I had to admit that my expla nations had an ad hoc character, varying suspiciously from example to example.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 268 pp. Englisch.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In spite of old vintage and 200 years of clinical use, digitalis remains an interesting therapeutic agent, to clinicians as well as to the pharmacologist, the biochemist, and colleagues in other diciplines of theoretic medicine. When a drug, however, has so many attractive facets, it seems proper and aJvis able for the success of a scientific meeting to focus on a number of well-defined aspects. This symposium was devoted to pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, analytic procedures, blood level determinations, and their interpretation both for thera peutic and toxic situations. Considerable progress has been made during the last years in this area of digitalis research. The time was suitable for a critical reap praisal of facts and theories and for future planning. Our main intention was to relate analytic data and biochemical findings to clinical problems and questions. Despite the undoubtedly basic character of clinical pharmacology, it is neverthe less an applied science which should help to develop the rational basis of thera peutics. We are particularly grateful to the active participants who bore the burden of preparing presentations and - even worse - manuscripts. At the same time we are well-aware that many other active research groups would have been able to contribute in this way, but our program was limited because of the short time available. Their knowledge is included in the discussion parts of the meeting, so we hope a well-balanced description of the present state of affairs emerged in this volume.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 444 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Discussion of the precise nature and position of boundaries between dis ciplines is nearly always counterproductive; the need is usually to cross them not to emphasize them. And any such discussion of the distinction between ethology and comparative psychology would today seem patently absurd. While there may be differences in outlook, no boundaries exist. But when Frank Beach started in research, that was not the case. Comparative psychology flourished in the United States whereas ethology was unknown. Beach started as a comparative psychologist and has always called himself either that or a behavioral endocrinologist. Yet, among the com parative psychologists of his generation, he has had closer links with the initially European ethologists than almost any other. He was indeed one of the editors of the first volume of Behaviour. That this should have been so is not surprising once one knows that his Ph. D. thesis concerned 'The Neural Basis for Innate Behavior,' that he used to sleep in the laboratory so that he could watch mother rats giving birth, and that in 1935 he was using model young to analyze maternal behavior. Furthermore, for nine years he worked in the American Museum of Natural History-in a department first named Experimental Biology and later, when Beach had saved it from extinction and become its chairman, the Department of Animal Behavior. It was in 1938, during Frank's time at the American Museum, that he was first introduced to Niko Tinbergen by Ernst Mayr. 464 pp. Englisch.…