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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Screen Design Manual provides designers of interactive media with a practical working guide for preparing and presenting information that is suitable for both their target groups and the media they are using. It highlights background information and relationships, clarifying them with examples, and encourages the further development of the language of digital media. In addition to the basics of perception and learning psychology, ergonomics, communication theory, imagery research, and aesthetics, the book also considers design navigation and orientation elements. Guidelines and checklists, along with the comprehensive design of the book, support the transfer of information into practice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -1 The Fundamental Constants and Metrology.- 2 Gamma rays.- 3 Alpha and Beta Decays.- 4 Nuclear Reactions.- 5 Mass Spectrometry.- 6 Theory of Nuclear Binding Energies.- 7 Atomic Mass Formulae.- 8 Time and Frequency Measurements and the Speed of Light.- 9 Wavelength Comparison.- 10 The Josephson Effects and 2e/h.- 11 Magnetic Moments.- 12 Miscellaneous Constants.- 13 Relativity, Time Variation of the Constants, and Philosophical Considerations.- 14 Evaluation.- 15 Conference Summary.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -During the course of the developnent of most areas of scien tific research certain events occur that serve to bring a particular area into focus. We feel that this symposilHll volume serves that role with regard to the study of the reproductive biology of amphib ians. The collection of vnrks contained in this volume provides an excellent review of a diversity of past contributions to this field of investigation and brings together in one volume the major ap proaches that have been utilized to study amphibian reproductive biology. The work emphasizes recently-completed studies and therefore can be considered to be an up-to-date account of the field. Equally signif icant, however, the contributors to this volume have excelled in pointing out directions for future research that will be of im mense value in integrating the component parts of reproductive bi ology, i.e., genetics, developnental biology, physiology, behavior, and ecology, into an eVOlutionary framework. 488 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Humans engage in a seemingly endless variety of different behaviors, of which some are found across species, while others are conceived of as typically human. Most generally, behavior comes about through the interplay of various constraints ¿ informational, mechanical, neural, metabolic, and so on ¿ operating at multiple scales in space and time. Over the years, consensus has grown in the research community that, rather than investigating behavior only from bottom up, it may be also well understood in terms of concepts and laws on the phenomenological level. Such top down approach is rooted in theories of synergetics and self-organization using tools from nonlinear dynamics. The present compendium brings together scientists from all over the world that have contributed to the development of their respective fields departing from this background. It provides an introduction to deterministic as well as stochastic dynamical systems and contains applications to motor control and coordination, visual perception and illusion, as well as auditory perception in the context of speech and music. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Der Plan zu diesem Buch geht auf das Jahr 1935 zurück. Damals wurde mir klar, daß meine Weise, die Gegenstände der Botanik darzustellen, nicht ohne Vorzüge war gegenüber dem sonst gehandhabten Verfahren. Insbesondere erwies es sich als dringend notwendig, in den Rahmen der allgemeinen Botanik eine zusammenhängende Fortpflanzungs-und Vererbungslehre einzufügen. Daß nichts daraus wurde, lag daran, daß im 3. Reich keine Bücher von mir erscheinen konnten. Nach dem Zusammenbruch mußte die Katastrophe erst mühselig überwunden werden, die Zeit, sich wissenschaftlichen Dingen widmen zu können, war be schränkt. So ist es spät geworden, und andere Lehrbücher der Botanik sind vor dem meinigen erschienen. Hoffentlich ist es nicht zu spät. Ich habe mich bemüht, die Gedankengänge darzulegen, nach denen ich seit mehr als 25 Jahren den Unterricht durchführe. Vielen Helfern habe ich Dank zu sagen; meinen Assistenten und Schülern Dr. Bopp, Dr. EBERLE, Dr. IHM, Dr. LINNERT, Dr. RESCH und Dr. WOLL. In einigen Fragen berieten mich die Kollegen Dr. BOGEN und Dr. POHL. Die Bilder sind nahezu sämtlich neu gezeichnet worden. Ein großer Teil sind Originale; die nach verschiedenen Autoren bezeichneten sind möglichst - wenn nichts anderes vermerkt ist - nach deren eigenhändigen Zeichnungen kopiert oder umgezeichnet worden. Die meisten arbeitete Universitätszeichner a. D. HANS DETTELBACHER, einige stammen von den Herren HERBERT BECKER und DIETRICH ECKERT bzw. aus dem Institut. Bei der Korrektur wirkten mit in erster Linie unsere Sekretärin Fräulein HELGA RIESE, die auch das Manuskript fertigte, sodann Fräulein RENATE HEss, Fräulein KARIN HÖLZER und Fräulein IRMGARD NEUGEBAUER. 472 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Fundament für eine gesunde Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist die bedarfsangepasste Zufuhr von Nährstoffen. Da eine systematische Lehre fehlt, sind oftmals Wissensdefizite in Diätetik, klinischer Ernährung und Infusionstherapie auszugleichen, um die komplexen Anforderungen im pädiatrischen Alltag zu bewältigen. Dieser Leitfaden fasst Grundlagen und therapeutisches Vorgehen in praxisorientierter Form zusammen und unterstützt Kinder- und Jugendärzte darin, Strategien zur gesunden Ernährung, Diätetik und Infusionstherapie erfolgreich umzusetzen. Die deutlich erweiterte 2. Auflage gibt den Stoff der Schwerpunktausbildung 'Ernährungsmedizin' strukturiert und auf pädiatrische Patienten bezogen wieder - nach dem Curriculum der Bundesärztekammer. Der Inhalt orientiert sich am Zertifikat Ernährungsmedizin der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin (DGKJ). Zusätzlicher Schwerpunkt ist die ausführliche Darstellung der Infusionstherapie mit ihrer Komposition und Berechnung. Die 2. Auflage bietet u.a.: Praktische Hilfe zur Berechnung einer adäquaten klinischen Ernährung für individuelle Patienten - Schnelle Orientierung bei Entgleisung des Flüssigkeits- oder Säure-Basen-Status - Perioperative Infusionstherapie - Besonderheiten der Ernährung von Frühgeborenen nach der Entlassung - Plus: Therapieschemata mit praktischen Anleitungen. Für Pädiater, Weiterbildungsassistenten, Kinderchirurgen, Anästhesisten und alle Mitglieder von Ernährungsteams in Klinik oder Praxis. 534 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Fundament für eine gesunde Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist die bedarfsangepasste Zufuhr von Nährstoffen. Da eine systematische Lehre fehlt, sind oftmals Wissensdefizite in Diätetik, klinischer Ernährung und Infusionstherapie auszugleichen, um die komplexen Anforderungen im pädiatrischen Alltag zu bewältigen. Dieser Leitfaden fasst Grundlagen und therapeutisches Vorgehen in praxisorientierter Form zusammen und unterstützt Kinder- und Jugendärzte darin, Strategien zur gesunden Ernährung, Diätetik und Infusionstherapie erfolgreich umzusetzen. Die deutlich erweiterte 2. Auflage gibt den Stoff der Schwerpunktausbildung 'Ernährungsmedizin' strukturiert und auf pädiatrische Patienten bezogen wieder - nach dem Curriculum der Bundesärztekammer. Der Inhalt orientiert sich am Zertifikat Ernährungsmedizin der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin (DGKJ). Zusätzlicher Schwerpunkt ist die ausführliche Darstellung der Infusionstherapie mit ihrer Komposition und Berechnung. Die 2. Auflage bietet u.a.: Praktische Hilfe zur Berechnung einer adäquaten klinischen Ernährung für individuelle Patienten - Schnelle Orientierung bei Entgleisung des Flüssigkeits- oder Säure-Basen-Status - Perioperative Infusionstherapie - Besonderheiten der Ernährung von Frühgeborenen nach der Entlassung - Plus: Therapieschemata mit praktischen Anleitungen. Für Pädiater, Weiterbildungsassistenten, Kinderchirurgen, Anästhesisten und alle Mitglieder von Ernährungsteams in Klinik oder Praxis. 534 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Es handelt sich um die 18. Auflage des zuerst 1810/12 und 1815 von dem Hallenser Alttestamentler und Orientalisten Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) herausgegebenen, seitdem immer wieder bearbeiteten Handwörterbuchs für die hebräische und aramäische Sprache des Alten Testaments: eines Standardwerkes für Generationen von Studenten, Pfarrern und Lehrern. Seine wissenschaftliche Zuverlässigkeit und der hohe Grad seiner praktischen Benutzbarkeit sind die Ursachen dafür, dass es in fast 200 Jahren seiner Existenz von anderen Wörterbüchern nicht hat verdrängt werden können. 'Der Gesenius' ist zu einem Begriff geworden.Der Unterschied der 18. gegenüber der 17. Auflage besteht hauptsächlich darin, dass das Wörterbuch auf den gegenwärtigen Stand der hebraistischen und semitistischen Kenntnis gebracht wurde. Die Kunde von den semitischen Sprachen, zu denen das Hebräische und das Biblisch-Aramäische gehören, ist seit dem 1. Weltkrieg beachtlich gewachsen; ganz neue Sprachbereiche - z.B. das Ugaritische - und zahlreiche neue Texte (z.B. die Texte aus den Höhlen am Toten Meer) sind hinzugekommen, andere - wie das Akkadische und Sumerische, das Hethitische, Altsüdarabische und die Texte der nordwestsemitischen Epigraphik - haben sich quellenmäßig stark vermehrt und sind philologisch nun erst richtig erschlossen. Gleichzeitig ist versucht worden, die Vorzüge des alten 'Gesenius' (übersichtliche Gliederung der Artikel, relative Ausführlichkeit bei der Wiedergabe von Formen und Zitaten mit Übersetzung, Benutzungsmöglichkeit z.T. auch als Konkordanz) zu bewahren. Der Supplementband enthält neben dem deutsch-hebräischen und -aramäischen Wörterverzeichnis vor allem das Gesamtabkürzungsverzeichnis - das die Abkürzungsverzeichnisse der Teillieferungen ersetzt und aktualisiert - sowie die Liste der Errata et corrigenda. Damit ist dasWörterbuch abgeschlossen. 114 pp. Deutsch, Hebräisch, Hamitosemitische Sprachen (Andere.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Es handelt sich um die 18. Auflage des zuerst 1810/12 und 1815 von dem Hallenser Alttestamentler und Orientalisten Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) herausgegebenen, seitdem immer wieder bearbeiteten Handwörterbuchs für die hebräische und aramäische Sprache des Alten Testaments: eines Standardwerkes für Generationen von Studenten, Pfarrern und Lehrern. Seine wissenschaftliche Zuverlässigkeit und der hohe Grad seiner praktischen Benutzbarkeit sind die Ursachen dafür, dass es in fast 200 Jahren seiner Existenz von anderen Wörterbüchern nicht hat verdrängt werden können. 'Der Gesenius' ist zu einem Begriff geworden.Der Unterschied der 18. gegenüber der 17. Auflage besteht hauptsächlich darin, dass das Wörterbuch auf den gegenwärtigen Stand der hebraistischen und semitistischen Kenntnis gebracht wurde. Die Kunde von den semitischen Sprachen, zu denen das Hebräische und das Biblisch-Aramäische gehören, ist seit dem 1. Weltkrieg beachtlich gewachsen; ganz neue Sprachbereiche - z.B. das Ugaritische - und zahlreiche neue Texte (z.B. die Texte aus den Höhlen am Toten Meer) sind hinzugekommen, andere - wie das Akkadische und Sumerische, das Hethitische, Altsüdarabische und die Texte der nordwestsemitischen Epigraphik - haben sich quellenmäßig stark vermehrt und sind philologisch nun erst richtig erschlossen. Gleichzeitig ist versucht worden, die Vorzüge des alten 'Gesenius' (übersichtliche Gliederung der Artikel, relative Ausführlichkeit bei der Wiedergabe von Formen und Zitaten mit Übersetzung, Benutzungsmöglichkeit z.T. auch als Konkordanz) zu bewahren. Der Supplementband enthält neben dem deutsch-hebräischen und -aramäischen Wörterverzeichnis vor allem das Gesamtabkürzungsverzeichnis - das die Abkürzungsverzeichnisse der Teillieferungen ersetzt und aktualisiert - sowie die Liste der Errata et corrigenda. Damit ist dasWörterbuch abgeschlossen. 114 pp. Deutsch, Hebräisch, Hamitosemitische Sprachen (Andere.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Gehaltvoll und praxisnah: Das Buch zum Fachgebiet!Bauchschmerzen, Erbrechen oder Durchfall - in der kinderärztlichen Klinik oder Praxis ein häufiger Vorstellungsgrund. Doch die Kinder-Gastroenterologie beinhaltet weit mehr als das: Sie zeichnet sich durch vielfältige Krankheitsbilder und Differenzialdiagnosen aus, die in der Gastroenterologie des Erwachsenen kaum bekannt sind. Mit diesem Buch hat die Subspezialität 'Pädiatrische Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Ernährung' ihr Referenzwerk gefunden, das sich schnell in der Fachwelt etabliert hat. Ein umfassender Überblick, unschlagbar in puncto Praxisnähe.Orientiert an den Prozessabläufen bei der Behandlung eines kranken Kindes, führt das Buch den Leser konsequent von den Untersuchungsmethoden zu den einzelnen organbezogenen Krankheiten bis hin zum gastroenterologischen Konsil.Für die 2. Auflage haben renommierte Spezialisten aus Kliniken in ganz Europa sämtliche Kapitel auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Neu hinzugekommen sind die so genannten Rom-Kriterien zur Diagnose. Einzelne seltenere Krankheitsbilder vervollständigen den 'Rodeck-Zimmer' zu einem lückenlosen Nachschlagewerk für das gesamte Fachgebiet, unverzichtbar für alle (angehenden) Fachärzte der Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin. 872 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Gehaltvoll und praxisnah: Das Buch zum Fachgebiet!Bauchschmerzen, Erbrechen oder Durchfall - in der kinderärztlichen Klinik oder Praxis ein häufiger Vorstellungsgrund. Doch die Kinder-Gastroenterologie beinhaltet weit mehr als das: Sie zeichnet sich durch vielfältige Krankheitsbilder und Differenzialdiagnosen aus, die in der Gastroenterologie des Erwachsenen kaum bekannt sind. Mit diesem Buch hat die Subspezialität 'Pädiatrische Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Ernährung' ihr Referenzwerk gefunden, das sich schnell in der Fachwelt etabliert hat. Ein umfassender Überblick, unschlagbar in puncto Praxisnähe.Orientiert an den Prozessabläufen bei der Behandlung eines kranken Kindes, führt das Buch den Leser konsequent von den Untersuchungsmethoden zu den einzelnen organbezogenen Krankheiten bis hin zum gastroenterologischen Konsil.Für die 2. Auflage haben renommierte Spezialisten aus Kliniken in ganz Europa sämtliche Kapitel auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Neu hinzugekommen sind die so genannten Rom-Kriterien zur Diagnose. Einzelne seltenere Krankheitsbilder vervollständigen den 'Rodeck-Zimmer' zu einem lückenlosen Nachschlagewerk für das gesamte Fachgebiet, unverzichtbar für alle (angehenden) Fachärzte der Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin. 872 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While many Web 2.0-inspired approaches to semantic content authoring do acknowledge motivation and incentives as the main drivers of user involvement, the amount of useful human contributions actually available will always remain a scarce resource. Complementarily, there are aspects of semantic content authoring in which automatic techniques have proven to perform reliably, and the added value of human (and collective) intelligence is often a question of cost and timing. The challenge that this book attempts to tackle is how these two approaches (machine- and human-driven computation) could be combined in order to improve the cost-performance ratio of creating, managing, and meaningfully using semantic content. To do so, we need to first understand how theories and practices from social sciences and economics about user behavior and incentives could be applied to semantic content authoring. We will introduce a methodology to help software designers to embed incentives-minded functionalities into semantic applications, as well as best practices and guidelines. We will present several examples of such applications, addressing tasks such as ontology management, media annotation, and information extraction, which have been built with these considerations in mind. These examples illustrate key design issues of incentivized Semantic Web applications that might have a significant effect on the success and sustainable development of the applications: the suitability of the task and knowledge domain to the intended audience, and the mechanisms set up to ensure high-quality contributions, and extensive user involvement.Table of Contents: Semantic Data Management: A Human-driven Process / Fundamentals of Motivation and Incentives / Case Study: Motivating Employees to Annotate Content / Case Study: Building a Community of Practice Around Web Service Management and Annotation / Case Study: Games with a Purpose for Semantic Content Creation / Conclusions 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Motion estimation is a long-standing cornerstone of image and video processing. Most notably, motion estimation serves as the foundation for many of today's ubiquitous video coding standards including H.264. Motion estimators also play key roles in countless other applications that serve the consumer, industrial, biomedical, and military sectors. Of the many available motion estimation techniques, optical flow is widely regarded as most flexible. The flexibility offered by optical flow is particularly useful for complex registration and interpolation problems, but comes at a considerable computational expense. As the volume and dimensionality of data that motion estimators are applied to continue to grow, that expense becomes more and more costly. Control grid motion estimators based on optical flow can accomplish motion estimation with flexibility similar to pure optical flow, but at a fraction of the computational expense. Control grid methods also offer the added benefit of representing motion far more compactly than pure optical flow. This booklet explores control grid motion estimation and provides implementations of the approach that apply to data of multiple dimensionalities. Important current applications of control grid methods including registration and interpolation are also developed. Table of Contents: Introduction / Control Grid Interpolation (CGI) / Application of CGI to Registration Problems / Application of CGI to Interpolation Problems / Discussion and Conclusions 88 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This highly practical book explains how executive teams in global companies can work together to successfully drive change, enable fast growth or restructure the business. It demonstrates a clear correlation between team development and business results and even deals with special issues for teams in the not-for-profit sector and emerging markets. 203 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra's most important contributions to mathematics and their applications, as well as his outstanding organizational achievements in scientific policy. Volterra was one of the founding fathers of functional analysis and the author of fundamental contributions in the field of integral equations, elasticity theory and population dynamics (Lotka-Volterra model). He delivered keynote lectures on the occasion of the International Congresses of Mathematicians held in Paris (1900), Rome (1908), Strasbourg (1920) and Bologna (1928). He became involved in the scientific development in united Italy and was appointed senator of the kingdom in 1905. One of his numerous non-mathematical activities was founding the National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR). During the First World War he was active in military research. After the war he took a clear stand against fascism, which was the starting point for his exclusion. In 1926 he resigned as president of the world famous Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and was later on excluded from the academy. In 1931 he was one of the few university lecturers who denied to swear an oath of allegiance to the fascistic regime. In 1938 he suffered from the impact of the racial laws. The authors draw a comprehensive picture of Vito Volterra, both as a great mathematician and an organizer of science. 188 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In these notes, we introduce particle filtering as a recursive importance sampling method that approximates the minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) estimate of a sequence of hidden state vectors in scenarios where the joint probability distribution of the states and the observations is non-Gaussian and, therefore, closed-form analytical expressions for the MMSE estimate are generally unavailable.We begin the notes with a review of Bayesian approaches to static (i.e., time-invariant) parameter estimation. In the sequel, we describe the solution to the problem of sequential state estimation in linear, Gaussian dynamic models, which corresponds to the well-known Kalman (or Kalman-Bucy) filter. Finally, we move to the general nonlinear, non-Gaussian stochastic filtering problem and present particle filtering as a sequential Monte Carlo approach to solve that problem in a statistically optimal way.We review several techniques to improve the performance of particle filters, including importance function optimization, particle resampling, Markov Chain Monte Carlo move steps, auxiliary particle filtering, and regularized particle filtering. We also discuss Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering as a technique that is particularly well-suited for many relevant applications such as fault detection and inertial navigation. Finally, we conclude the notes with a discussion on the emerging topic of distributed particle filtering using multiple processors located at remote nodes in a sensor network.Throughout the notes, we often assume a more general framework than in most introductory textbooks by allowing either the observation model or the hidden state dynamic model to include unknown parameters. In a fully Bayesian fashion, we treat those unknown parameters also as random variables. Using suitable dynamic conjugate priors, that approach can be applied then to perform joint state and parameter estimation.Table of Contents: Introduction / Bayesian Estimation of Static Vectors / The Stochastic Filtering Problem / Sequential Monte Carlo Methods / Sampling/Importance Resampling (SIR) Filter / Importance Function Selection / Markov Chain Monte Carlo Move Step / Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters / Auxiliary Particle Filter / Regularized Particle Filters / Cooperative Filtering with Multiple Observers / Application Examples / Summary 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Visual information retrieval (VIR) is an active and vibrant research area, which attempts at providing means for organizing, indexing, annotating, and retrieving visual information (images and videos) from large, unstructured repositories.The goal of VIR is to retrieve matches ranked by their relevance to a given query, which is often expressed as an example image and/or a series of keywords. During its early years (1995-2000), the research efforts were dominated by content-based approaches contributed primarily by the image and video processing community. During the past decade, it was widely recognized that the challenges imposed by the lack of coincidence between an image's visual contents and its semantic interpretation, also known as semantic gap, required a clever use of textual metadata (in addition to information extracted from the image's pixel contents) to make image and video retrieval solutions efficient and effective. The need to bridge (or at least narrow) the semantic gap has been one of the driving forces behind current VIR research. Additionally, other related research problems and market opportunities have started to emerge, offering a broad range of exciting problems for computer scientists and engineers to work on.In this introductory book, we focus on a subset of VIR problems where the media consists of images, and the indexing and retrieval methods are based on the pixel contents of those images -- an approach known as content-based image retrieval (CBIR). We present an implementation-oriented overview of CBIR concepts, techniques, algorithms, and figures of merit. Most chapters are supported by examples written in Java, using Lucene (an open-source Java-based indexing and search implementation) and LIRE (Lucene Image REtrieval), an open-source Java-based library for CBIR.Table of Contents: Introduction / Information Retrieval: Selected Concepts and Techniques / Visual Features / Indexing Visual Features / LIRE: An Extensible Java CBIR Library / Concluding Remarks 116 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Multithreaded architectures now appear across the entire range of computing devices, from the highest-performing general purpose devices to low-end embedded processors. Multithreading enables a processor core to more effectively utilize its computational resources, as a stall in one thread need not cause execution resources to be idle. This enables the computer architect to maximize performance within area constraints, power constraints, or energy constraints. However, the architectural options for the processor designer or architect looking to implement multithreading are quite extensive and varied, as evidenced not only by the research literature but also by the variety of commercial implementations. This book introduces the basic concepts of multithreading, describes a number of models of multithreading, and then develops the three classic models (coarse-grain, fine-grain, and simultaneous multithreading) in greater detail. It describes a wide variety of architectural and software design tradeoffs, as well as opportunities specific to multithreading architectures. Finally, it details a number of important commercial and academic hardware implementations of multithreading. Table of Contents: Introduction / Multithreaded Execution Models / Coarse-Grain Multithreading / Fine-Grain Multithreading / Simultaneous Multithreading / Managing Contention / New Opportunities for Multithreaded Processors / Experimentation and Metrics / Implementations of Multithreaded Processors / Conclusion 112 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This lecture note describes the main analytical approaches to stochastic cooling. The first is the time domain picture, in which the beam is rapidly sampled and a statistical analysis is used to describe the cooling behaviour. The second is the frequency domain picture, which is particularly useful since the observations made on the beam are mainly in this domain. This second picture is developed in detail to assess key components of modern cooling theory like mixing and signal shielding and to illustrate some of the diagnostic methods. Finally the use of a distribution function and the Fokker-Plank equation, which offer the most complete description of the beam during the cooling, are discussed. 152 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Probabilistic Group Theory, Combinatorics and Computing is based on lecture courses held at the Fifth de Brún Workshop in Galway, Ireland in April 2011. Each course discusses computational and algorithmic aspects that have recently emerged at the interface of group theory and combinatorics, with a strong focus on probabilistic methods and results. The courses served as a forum for devising new strategic approaches and for discussing the main open problems to be solved in the further development of each area. The book represents a valuable resource for advanced lecture courses. Researchers at all levels are introduced to the main methods and the state-of-the-art, leading up to the very latest developments. One primary aim of the book's approach and design is to enable postgraduate students to make immediate use of the material presented. 124 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Tax Insight: For Tax Year 2012 will teach you to take control of life's biggest expense-taxes. In your lifetime, you will spend more money on taxes than on anything else. Despite that fact, you likely know the current prices of movies and milk but don't know what your marginal tax rate is. You know where to get the cheapest gallon of gas to save a buck or two, but you don't give a thought to the tax strategies you should be using right now that would save you thousands. Why Is it too complicated and confusing Too unpleasant In Tax Insight, tax expert Casey Murdock opens up the world of taxes with amazing clarity and simplicity. As you will discover, you have within reach numerous ways to reduce your taxes. With everyday language and real-life examples, Tax Insight will give you the keys to minimizing your tax burden. This book contains information you need even if you have a tax advisor or use a program like TurboTax. Tax professionals are busy and sometimes too cautious, and programs often miss opportunities for you to save money. It's also for those of all ages and income levels, including business owners. Tax Insight: Breaks down the key components of taxes with ease and simplicity. Provides a roadmap to paying as little tax as possible. Helps you know if you should do it yourself or hire a professional. While there are many encyclopedic books on taxes-like J.K. Lasser's Your Taxes-there aren't nearly enough that describe the tax code in plain language. Far more than a rehash of impenetrable IRS 'help' documents, Tax Insights is organized the way most people think and presents ideas in clear, simple language. If you buy this book and take advantage of its advice, you will save money. 376 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Hidden Hunger is an increasing problem even in developed countries, whose potential negative consequences on long-term health are often overlooked and underestimated. Chronic malnutrition is at the core of the global hunger challenge facing science, politics, and economics. In plain language and with moving examples, Hans K. Biesalski describes how hidden hunger affects human health long before malnutrition becomes obvious. Worldwide, over one third of deaths among children under 5 years of age is associated with malnutrition. As poverty is the main reason for hidden hunger, addressing this dire challenge requires long-term policies. Land grabbing and climate change seriously counteract a lot of efforts to overcome hidden hunger. This book is a highly impressive call to action. Investment in agriculture and in particular in small-scale farmers to improve subsistence farming are among the approaches suggested to reach a sustainable solution.The author is head of the department of biochemistry and nutrition and managing director of the Food Security Center at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He is a member of numerous advisory and expert groups for the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition. 272 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This state-of-the-art survey features topics related to the impact of multicore, manycore, and coprocessor technologies in science and large-scale applications in an interdisciplinary environment. The papers included in this survey cover research in mathematical modeling, design of parallel algorithms, aspects of microprocessor architecture, parallel programming languages, hardware-aware computing, heterogeneous platforms, manycore technologies, performance tuning, and requirements for large-scale applications. The contributions presented in this volume are an outcome of an inspiring conference conceived and organized by the editors at the University of Applied Sciences (HfT) in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 2012. The 10 revised full papers selected from 21 submissions are presented together with the twelve poster abstracts and focus on combination of new aspects of microprocessor technologies, parallel applications, numerical simulation, and software development; thus they clearly show the potential of emerging technologies in the area of multicore and manycore processors that are paving the way towards personal supercomputing and very likely towards exascale computing. 156 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Combining advocacy and memoir with social and cultural history, this book offers a comparative, cross-cultural survey of the whole history of adoption that is grounded in the author's personal experience. 161 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this 'Cook's Tour' of developments in physics and realted fields, D. Allan Bromley, Science Advisor to President Bush during 1989-1983 and past president of the American Physical Society, conveys much of the excitement and wonder that research in physics generated in the 20th century and asks what new things are in store in the next century. 128 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dramatic progress is a trademark of the recent study of globular cluster systems. Considerationsabout the formation and evolution compose the first chapter, followed by a chapter on young star clusters. Then come four chapters reviewing the globular cluster system of early-type, late-type and dwarf galaxies, as well as of groups of galaxies. One chapter is dedicated to stellar population models and their applications to the field. Finally a chapter reviews the kinematics of galaxies derived from globular cluster systems and another their role in the context of galaxy formation and evolution studies. As a whole, thebook gives an up-to-date view of the field at the beginning of the new decade, which will without doubtagain bring significant progress in our understanding of globular cluster systems and galaxy formation and evolution. 324 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains ten thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at the 13th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2011), collocated with AAMAS 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, or at the 2011 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2011), collocated with IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.The papers presented at these two workshops illustrate both the depth and broad range of research topics in this field. They range from providing solutions to open theoretical problems in online scheduling and bargaining under uncertainty, to designing bidding agents in a wide area of application areas, such as electronic commerce, supply chain management, or keyword advertising, to designing agents that can successfully replicate actual human behaviors in realistic games. 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 10, 2012.The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, service, economic, sociological, and behavioral sciences. It reflects on technologically enabled opportunities, implications, and changes due to the introduction of new business models or regulations related to the financial services industry and the financial markets. The seven papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are: news and text analysis; algorithmic and high-frequency trading; and the role and impact of technology. 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP 2012, held in Paris, France, in August 2012, co-located with the 18th International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2012. The 8 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and one invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. 260 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography, TQC 2012, held in Tokyo, Japan, in May 2012.The 12 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. They contain original research on the rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of quantum computation, communication and cryptography. Topics addressed are such as quantum algorithms, quantum computation models, quantum complexity theory, simulation of quantum systems, quantum programming languages, quantum cryptography, quantum communication, quantum estimation, quantum measurement, quantum tomography, completely positive maps, decoherence, quantum noise, quantum coding theory, fault-tolerant quantum computing, entanglement theory, and quantum teleportation. 164 pp. Englisch.…