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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inhaltsangabe18 Elementary Group Theory.- 18.1 The group axioms; examples.- 18.2 Elementary consequences of the axioms; further definitions.- 18.3 Isomorphism.- 18.4 Permutation groups.- 18.5 Homomorphisms; normal subgroups.- 18.6 Cosets.- 18.7 Factor groups.- 18.8 The Law of Homomorphism.- 18.9 The structure of cyclic groups.- 18.10 Translations, inner automorphisms.- 18.11 The subgroups of 4.- 18.12 Generators and relations; free groups.- 18.13 Multiply periodic functions and crystals.- 18.14 The space and point groups.- 18.15 Direct and semidirect products of groups; symmorphic space groups.- 19 Continuous Groups.- 19.1 Orthogonal and rotation groups.- 19.2 The rotation group SO(3); Euler's theorem.- 19.3 Unitary groups.- 19.4 The Lorentz groups.- 19.5 Group manifolds.- 19.6 Intrinsic coordinates in the manifold of the rotation group.- 19.7 The homomorphism of SU(2) onto SO(3).- 19.8 The homomorphism of SL(2, ) onto the proper Lorentz group p. 19.9 Simplicity of the rotation and Lorentz groups. 20 Group Representations I: Rotations and Spherical Harmonics. 20.1 Finitedimensional representations of a group. 20.2 Vector and tensor transformation laws. 20.3 Other group representations in physics. 20.4 Infinitedimensional representations. 20.5 A simple case: SO(2). 20.6 Representations of matrix groups on X . 20.7 Homogeneous spaces. 20.8 Regular representations. 20.9 Representations of the rotation group SO(3). 20.10 Tesseral harmonics; Legendre functions. 20.11 Associated Legendre functions. 20.12 Matrices of the irreducible representations of SO(3); the Euler angles. 20.13 The addition theorem for tesseral harmonics. 20.14 Completeness of the tesseral harmonics. 21 Group Representations II: General; Rigid Motions; Bessel Functions. 21.1 Equivalence; unitary representations. 21.2 The reduction of representations. 21.3 Schur's Lemma and its corollaries. 21.4 Compact and noncompact groups. 21.5 Invariant integration; Haar measure. 21.6 Complete system of representations of a compact group. 21.7 Homogeneous spaces as configuration spaces in physics. 21.8 M2 and related groups. 21.9 Representations of M2. 21.10 Some irreducible representations. 21.11 Bessel functions. 21.12 Matrices of the representations. 21.13 Characters. 22 Group Representations and Quantum Mechanics. 22.1 Representations in quantum mechanics. 22.2 Rotations of the axes. 22.3 Ray representations. 22.4 A finitedimensional case. 22.5 Local representations. 22.6 Origin of the twovalued representations. 22.7 Representations of SU(2) and SL(2, ). 22.8 Irreducible representations of SU(2). 22.9 The characters of SU(2). 22.10 Functions of z and z . 22.11 The finitedimensional representations of SL(2, ). 22.12 The irreducible invariant subspaces of X for SL(2, ). 22.13 Spinors. 23 Elementary Theory of Manifolds. 23.1 Examples of manifolds; method of identification. 23.2 Coordinate systems or charts; compatibility; smoothness. 23.3 Induced topology. 23.4 Definition of manifold; Hausdorff separation axiom. 23.5 Curves and functions in a manifold. 23.6 Connectedness; components of a manifold. 23.7 Global topology; homotopic curves; fundamental group. 23.8 Mechanical linkages: Cartesian products. 24 Covering Manifolds. 24.1 Definition and examples. 24.2 Principles of lifting. 24.3 Universal covering manifold. 24.4 Comments on the construction of mathematical models. 24.5 Construction of the universal covering. 24.6 Manifolds covered by a given manifold. 25 Lie Groups. 25.1 Definitions and statement of objectives. 25.2 The expansions of m( , ) and l( , ). 25.3 The Lie algebra of a Lie group. 25.4 Abstract Lie algebras. 25.5 The Lie algebras of linear groups. 25.6 The exponential mapping; logarithmic coordinates. 25.7 An auxiliary lemma on inner automorphisms; the mappings Ad . 25.8 Auxiliary lemmas on formal derivatives. 25.9 An auxiliary lemma on the differentiation of exponentials. 25.10 The Campbe.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Inhaltsangabe18 Elementary Group Theory.- 18.1 The group axioms; examples.- 18.2 Elementary consequences of the axioms; further definitions.- 18.3 Isomorphism.- 18.4 Permutation groups.- 18.5 Homomorphisms; normal subgroups.- 18.6 Cosets.- 18.7 Factor groups.- 18.8 The Law of Homomorphism.- 18.9 The structure of cyclic groups.- 18.10 Translations, inner automorphisms.- 18.11 The subgroups of 4.- 18.12 Generators and relations; free groups.- 18.13 Multiply periodic functions and crystals.- 18.14 The space and point groups.- 18.15 Direct and semidirect products of groups; symmorphic space groups.- 19 Continuous Groups.- 19.1 Orthogonal and rotation groups.- 19.2 The rotation group SO(3); Euler's theorem.- 19.3 Unitary groups.- 19.4 The Lorentz groups.- 19.5 Group manifolds.- 19.6 Intrinsic coordinates in the manifold of the rotation group.- 19.7 The homomorphism of SU(2) onto SO(3).- 19.8 The homomorphism of SL(2, ) onto the proper Lorentz group p. 19.9 Simplicity of the rotation and Lorentz groups. 20 Group Representations I: Rotations and Spherical Harmonics. 20.1 Finitedimensional representations of a group. 20.2 Vector and tensor transformation laws. 20.3 Other group representations in physics. 20.4 Infinitedimensional representations. 20.5 A simple case: SO(2). 20.6 Representations of matrix groups on X . 20.7 Homogeneous spaces. 20.8 Regular representations. 20.9 Representations of the rotation group SO(3). 20.10 Tesseral harmonics; Legendre functions. 20.11 Associated Legendre functions. 20.12 Matrices of the irreducible representations of SO(3); the Euler angles. 20.13 The addition theorem for tesseral harmonics. 20.14 Completeness of the tesseral harmonics. 21 Group Representations II: General; Rigid Motions; Bessel Functions. 21.1 Equivalence; unitary representations. 21.2 The reduction of representations. 21.3 Schur's Lemma and its corollaries. 21.4 Compact and noncompact groups. 21.5 Invariant integration; Haar measure. 21.6 Complete system of representations of a compact group. 21.7 Homogeneous spaces as configuration spaces in physics. 21.8 M2 and related groups. 21.9 Representations of M2. 21.10 Some irreducible representations. 21.11 Bessel functions. 21.12 Matrices of the representations. 21.13 Characters. 22 Group Representations and Quantum Mechanics. 22.1 Representations in quantum mechanics. 22.2 Rotations of the axes. 22.3 Ray representations. 22.4 A finitedimensional case. 22.5 Local representations. 22.6 Origin of the twovalued representations. 22.7 Representations of SU(2) and SL(2, ). 22.8 Irreducible representations of SU(2). 22.9 The characters of SU(2). 22.10 Functions of z and z . 22.11 The finitedimensional representations of SL(2, ). 22.12 The irreducible invariant subspaces of X for SL(2, ). 22.13 Spinors. 23 Elementary Theory of Manifolds. 23.1 Examples of manifolds; method of identification. 23.2 Coordinate systems or charts; compatibility; smoothness. 23.3 Induced topology. 23.4 Definition of manifold; Hausdorff separation axiom. 23.5 Curves and functions in a manifold. 23.6 Connectedness; components of a manifold. 23.7 Global topology; homotopic curves; fundamental group. 23.8 Mechanical linkages: Cartesian products. 24 Covering Manifolds. 24.1 Definition and examples. 24.2 Principles of lifting. 24.3 Universal covering manifold. 24.4 Comments on the construction of mathematical models. 24.5 Construction of the universal covering. 24.6 Manifolds covered by a given manifold. 25 Lie Groups. 25.1 Definitions and statement of objectives. 25.2 The expansions of m( , ) and l( , ). 25.3 The Lie algebra of a Lie group. 25.4 Abstract Lie algebras. 25.5 The Lie algebras of linear groups. 25.6 The exponential mapping; logarithmic coordinates. 25.7 An auxiliary lemma on inner automorphisms; the mappings Ad . 25.8 Auxiliary lemmas on formal derivatives. 25.9 An auxiliary lemma on the differentiation of exponentials. 25.10 The Campbe 336 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In this book on Fundamentals of Mass Determination, the definition and dissemination of units of mass is explained, starting with an introduction to metrology and mass determination.Establishing a mass scale requires corresponding mass standards and mass comparators. The metrological requirements for weighing instruments, weight pieces, and measuring conditions are explained and discussed based on international directives and applicable legal regulations. International directives and institutions are striving towards the worldwide uniform implementation of these requirements. Processes used to determine density and volume are described to the extent that they apply to mass determination. Calculating measurement uncertainty entails taking into consideration the effect of influence variables on mass determination. An overview of this topic is provided to make it easier to determine and specify measurement uncertainty in practice, while additional information in the form of tables, illustrations, and literature references allow the reader to study mass metrology further.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 124 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book is an expanded autobiography of the famous theoretical physicist Isaak Khalatnikov. He worked together with L.D. Landau at the Institute for Physical Problems lead by P.L. Kapitza. He is the co-author of L.D. Landau in a number of important works. They worked together in the frame of the so-called Nuclear Bomb Project. After the death of L.D. Landau, I.M. Khalatnikov initiated the establishment of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, named in honour of L.D. Landau, within the USSR Academy of Sciences. He headed this institute from the beginning as its Director. The institute inherited almost all traditions of the Landau scientific school and played a prominent role in the development of theoretical physics. So, this is a story about how the institute was created, how it worked, and about the life of the physicists in the 'golden age' of the Soviet science. A separate chapter is devoted to today¿s life of the institute and the young generation of physicists working now in science.It is an historically interesting book on the development of Soviet and Russian science and presents the background of the Soviet nuclear bomb program in the cold war age. In war times, Khalatnikov was a chief of the military staff of nuclear research. He writes about the internal conditions of Soviet society, the way of operating of the Soviet authorities and ways for scientists to interact with them. It gives many interesting insights into the development of superconductivity and superfluidity. The book is written by the most experienced and best informed person among the few living Russian scientists in the environment of Landau. Many stories of the book were never published before and considered as 'top secret'.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In recent years considerable interest has developed in the mathe matical analysis of chemically reacting systems both in the absence and in the presence of diffusion. Earlier work has been limited to simple problems amenable to closed form solutions, but now the computer permits the numerical solution of complex systems of nonlinear differ ential equations. The numerical approach provides quantitative infor mation, but for practical reasons it must be limited to a rather narrow range of the parameters of the problem. Consequently, it is desirable to obtain broader qualitative information about the solutions by in vestigating from a more fundamental mathematical point of view the structure of the differential equations. This theoretical approach can actually complement and guide the computational approach by narrow ing down trial and error procedures, pinpointing singularities and suggesting methods for handling them. The study of the structure of the differential equations may also clarify some physical principles and suggest new experiments. A serious limitation ofthe theoretical approach is that many of the results obtained, such as the sufficient conditions for the stability of the steady state, turn out to be very conservative. Thus the theoretical and computational approaches are best used to gether for the purpose of understanding, designing, and controlling chemically reacting systems. The present monograph is intended as a contribution to the theory of the differential equations describing chemically reacting systems.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -From a mathematical point of view, physiologically structured population models are an underdeveloped branch of the theory of infinite dimensional dynamical systems. We have called attention to four aspects: (i) A choice has to be made about the kind of equations one extracts from the predominantly verbal arguments about the basic assumptions, and subsequently uses as a starting point for a rigorous mathematical analysis. Though differential equations are easy to formulate (different mechanisms don't interact in infinites imal time intervals and so end up as separate terms in the equations) they may be hard to interpret rigorously as infinitesimal generators. Integral equations constitute an attractive alternative. (ii) The ability of physiologically structured population models to increase our un derstanding of the relation between mechanisms at the i-level and phenomena at the p-level will depend strongly on the development of dynamical systems lab facilities which are applicable to this class of models. (iii) Physiologically structured population models are ideally suited for the for mulation of evolutionary questions. Apart from the special case of age (see Charlesworth 1980, Yodzis 1989, Caswell 1989, and the references given there) hardly any theory exists at the moment. This will, hopefully, change rapidly in the coming years. Again the development of appropriate software may turn out to be crucial.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 644 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -It is part of the ideology of science that it is an international enterprise, carried out by a community that knows no barriers of nation or culture. But the reality is somewhat different. Despite the best intentions of scientists to form a single community, unseparated by differences of national and political viewpoint, they are, in fact, separated by language. Scientific literature in German is not generally assimilated by French workers, nor that appearing in French by those whose native language is English. The problem appears to have become more severe since the last war, because the ascendance of the United States as the preeminent economic power led, in a time of big and expensive science, to a pre dominance of American scientific production and a growing tendency (at least among English-speakers) to regard English as the international language of science. International congresses and journals of world circulation have come more and more to take English as their standard or official language. As a result, students and scientific workers in the English speaking world have become more linguistically parochial than ever before and have been cut off from a considerable scientific literature. Population genetics has been no exception to the rule. The elegant and extremely innovative theoreticaI work of Malecot, for example, is only now being properly assimilated by population biologists outside France. It was therefore with some sense of frustration that I read Prof.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 592 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The containment of cell growth is at the core of the homeostatic regulation of metazoans, and considerable progress has been made in the understanding of how this is achieved. Most knowledge comes from the isolation of molecu les with positive and negative regulatory effects on cell proliferation, and most emphasis so far has been on these molecules. Some of these molecules are already available for therapeutic purposes, and others look promising in this respect. This volume gives examples of such approaches. The understanding of the control of cell growth is also fundamental to grasp phylogenic and ontogenic development. Why organisms have developed increasingly sophisticated mechanisms that control their size and that of their organs, how different cells originate, some destined for renewal and repair, others for specialized functions in a postmitotic state or evolving through division, others like the germinal cells waiting for the signal to start another organism. There is one mechanism of growth containment, however, about which we know very little. It concerns the structural characteristics of the cell, i.e. the relationship between structure and function. How structure can change the response to identical signals. The positive and negative growth regulators may be conserved, but the structure and organization of the genetic material and of other cell components differ widely and are responsible to a great extent for the differences in cell proliferative behaviour.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book analyses the fundamental problems and possibilities of designing purposive mathematical models of dynamical physical objects, including a number of 'pitfalls'. It states conditions for correct identification and suggests rules and procedures for making meaningful use of any identification software.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The subject of geomagnetic micropulsations has developed extremely rapidly and it is difficult to know when is an appropriate time to pause and assess the sum total of our knowledge-both observational and theoretical. There has in recent years been a tremendous increase in both the quantity and quality of data and also many theoretical ad vances in our understanding of the phenomenon. Undoubtedly there will be further progress in both areas but it seems worthwhile now to review both our knowledge and our ignorance. This book was essen tially completed by the end of April 1969 and tries to give a summary of the subject up to that time. The Earth is enclosed in the magnetosphere, a hollow carved out of the solar wind by the Earth's magnetic field. Above the ionosphere there is a very tenuous thermal plasma of partially ionized hydrogen in diffusive equilibrium with magnetic and gravitational forces, and ener getic protons and electrons that constitute the trapped Van Allen ra diation belts. Throughout this anisotropic and inhomogeneous plasma, natural and man-made electromagnetic energy propagates in a wide variety of modes and frequency bands. This book is concerned with that class of natural signals called geomagnetic micropulsations-short period (usually of the order of seconds or minutes) fluctuations of the Earth's magnetic field.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Automatic computing has undergone drastic changes since the pioneering days of the early Fifties, one of the most obvious being that today the majority of computer programs are no longer written in machine code but in some programming language like FORTRAN or ALGOL. However, as desirable as the time-saving achieved in this way may be, still a high proportion of the preparatory work must be attributed to activities such as error estimates, stability investigations and the like, and for these no programming aid whatsoever can be of help. In this respect, ALGOL, as an internationally standardized notation which avoids computer-oriented concepts, provides another advantage, not often mentioned, but one which was already the guiding principle at the very beginning of the programming language venture: indeed, a correct ALGOL program is the abstractum of a computing process for which the necessary analyses have already been performed. It is the very purpose of this Handbook to establish such abstract formulations of certain computing processes. Therefore, numerical methods given in this Hand book in the form of ALGOL procedures may be put to immediate use wherever ALGOL is known and understood; in fact, application of such a method reduces to little more than calling the corresponding procedure.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Geometrical optics is no longer fashionable. Research workers do not expect significant new discoveries to be made in this field of classical physics. Teachers avoid the subject because its use for many generations in arid mathematical exercises has robbed it of all freshness and stimulus, with the result that it no longer seems relevant to a modern physics course. There remains - and perhaps this has grown in recent year- the technical significance of geometrical optics. It provides the basis for the design of optical instruments for use in everyday life as well as for scientific and industrial purposes. This small book is intended to treat two aspects of the subject: the laws of geometrical optics and their application to the design of optical instruments. The theory is not based on Snell's law of refraction but on a conservation law for the radiated energy. The subject can then be treated in a manner appropriate to contemporary physics: auxiliary geometrical parameters become unnecessary and the singularities resulting from their use vanish. The laws of geometrical optics can be formulated much more simply and their physical significance is revealed more clearly. I have tried to present the material in a form satisfactory both to teachers and to workers in the technical applications of optics. The content has thus been deliberately kept within the limits of a pocket book.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -I The Problem: An Axiomatic Basis for Quantum Mechanics.- 1 The Axiomatic Formulation of a Physical Theory.- 2 The Fundamental Domain for Quantum Mechanics.- 3 The Measurement Problem.- II Microsystems, Preparation, and Registration Procedures.- 1 The Concept of a Physical Object.- 2 Selection Procedures.- 3 Statistical Selection Procedures.- 4 Physical Systems.- III Ensembles and Effects.- 1 Combinations of Preparation and Registration Methods.- 2 Mixtures and Decompositions of Ensembles and Effects.- 3 General Laws: Preparation and Registration of Microsystems.- 4 Properties and Pseudoproperties.- 5 Ensembles and Effects in Quantum Mechanics.- 6 Decision Effects and Faces of K.- IV Coexistent Effects and Coexistent Decompositions.- 1 Coexistent Effects and Observables.- 2 Structures in the Class of Observables.- 3 Coexistent and Complementary Observables.- 4 Realizations of Observables.- 5 Coexistent Decompositions of Ensembles.- 6 Complementary Decompositions of Ensembles.- 7 Realizations of Decompositions.- 8 Objective Properties and Pseudoproperties of Microsystems.- V Transformations of Registration and Preparation Procedures. Transformations of Effects and Ensembles.- 1 Morphisms for Selection Procedures.- 2 Morphisms of Statistical Selection Procedures.- 3 Morphisms of Preparation and Registration Procedures.- 4 Morphisms of Ensembles and Effects.- 5 Isomorphisms and Automorphisms of Ensembles and Effects.- VI Representation of Groups by Means of Effect Automorphisms and Mixture Automorphisms.- 1 Homomorphic Maps of a Group? in the Group ? of -continuous Effect Automorphisms.- 2 The ?-invariant Structure Corresponding to a Group Representation.- 3 Properties of Representations of ? which are Dependent on the Special Structure of ?( ) in Quantum Mechanics.- VII The Galileo Group.- 1 The Galileo Group as a Set of Transformations of Registration Procedures Relative to Preparation Procedures.- 2 Irreducible Representations of the Galileo Group and Their Physical Meaning.- 3 Irreducible Representations of the Rotation Group.- 4 Position and Momentum Observables.- 5 Energy and Angular Momentum Observables.- 6 Time Observable .- 7 Spatial Reflections (Parity Transformations).- 8 The Problem of the Space ? for Elementary Systems.- 9 The Problem of Differentiability.- VIII Composite Systems.- 1 Registrations and Effects of the Inner Structure.- 2 Composite Systems Consisting of Two Different Elementary Systems.- 3 Composite Systems Consisting of Two Identical Elementary Systems.- 4 Composite Systems Consisting of Electrons and Atomic Nuclei.- 5 The Hamiltonian Operator.- 6 Microsystems in External Fields.- 7 Criticism of the Description of Interaction in Quantum Mechanics and the Problem of the Space ?.- Appendix I.- Summary of Lattice Theory.- 1 Definition of a Lattice.- 2 Orthomodularity.- 3 Boolean Rings.- 4 Set Lattices.- Appendix II.- Remarks about Topological and Uniform Structures.-1 Topological Spaces.- 2 Uniform Spaces.- 3 Baire Spaces.- 4 Connectedness.- Appendix III.- Banach Spaces.- 1 Linear Vector Spaces.- 2 Normed Vector Spaces and Banach Spaces.- 3 The Dual Space for a Banach Space.- 4 Weak Topologies.- 5 Linear Maps of Banach Spaces.- 6 Ordered Vector Spaces.- Appendix IV.- Operators in Hubert Space.- 1 The Hubert Space Structure Type.- 2 Orthogonal Systems and Closed Subspaces.- 3 The Banach Space of Bounded Operators.- 4 Bounded Linear Forms.- 6 Projection Operators.- 7 Isometric and Unitary Operators.- 8 Spectral Representation of Self-adjoint and Unitary Operators.- 9 The Spectrum of Compact Self-adjoint Operators.- 10 Spectral Representation of Unbounded Self-adjoint Operators.- 11 The Trace as a Bilinear Form.- 12 Gleason's Theorem.- 13 Isomorphisms and Anti-isomorphisms.- 14 Products of Hubert Spaces.- References.- List of Frequently Used Symbols.- List of Axioms.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 440 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Mathematics plays an important role in many scientific and engineering disciplines. This book deals with the numerical solution of differential equations, a very important branch of mathematics. Our aim is to give a practical and theoretical account of how to solve a large variety of differential equations, comprising ordinary differential equations, initial value problems and boundary value problems, differential algebraic equations, partial differential equations and delay differential equations. The solution of differential equations using R is the main focus of this book. It is therefore intended for the practitioner, the student and the scientist, who wants to know how to use R for solving differential equations. However, it has been our goal that non-mathematicians should at least understand the basics of the methods, while obtaining entrance into the relevant literature that provides more mathematical background. Therefore, each chapter that deals with R examples is preceded by a chapter where the theory behind the numerical methods being used is introduced. In the sections that deal with the use of R for solving differential equations, we have taken examples from a variety of disciplines, including biology, chemistry, physics, pharmacokinetics. Many examples are well-known test examples, used frequently in the field of numerical analysis.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since 1958, when the first cardiac pacing system wasimplanted, the exemplary collaboration between medicine andengineering has developed into an extremely successfultherapy.The book highlights many of the recent and most importanttechnological advances and shows the multidisciplinarynature of the technical task of pacemaker development whichis based on the diverse components of physiology,electronics, physics, electrochemistry and the materialsciences. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Substantial progress has been made in the field of fluidmechanics under compensated gravity effects (microgravity).The main task of this disciplinehas evolved tremendously.Starting out with the aim of providing assistance indescribing flow problems in other microgravity sciences,microgravityfluid mechanics has itself now becomeacknowledge as a powerful means of research.The IUTAM Symposium on Microgravity Fluid Mechanics has pro-vided the long-awaited forum for scientists from 15 coun-tries to discuss and concretize the 'state-of-the-art' inthis discipline. The main themes treated are: Interface Phe-nomena, Convective Processes; Marangoni effects, Solidifica-tion, Combustion, Physico-Chemical Processes, MultiphasePhenomena, Residual Acceleration effects, Fluid Handling andNon-Newtonian Flows. 636 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life, however our knowledge and understanding of it is incomplete and underdeveloped scientifically. Research on the topic is largely contemporary in focus and has generally not incorporated results from other disciplines.In this monograph Spink provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. In her presentation, she argues that information behavior is an important instinctive sociocognitive ability that can only be fully understood with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The leitmotivs of her examination are three important research questions: First, what is the evolutionary, biological and developmental nature of information behavior Second, what is the role of instinct versus environment in shaping information behavior And, third, how have information behavior capabilities evolved and developed over time Written for researchers in information science as well as social and cognitive sciences, Spink¿s controversial text lays the foundation for a new interdisciplinary theoretical perspective on information behavior that will not only provide a more holistic framework for this field but will also impact those sciences, and thus also open up many new research directions.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 108 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book deals with basic structures important for a new kiund of electronics and optoelectronics, to proceed from microelectronics to nanoelectronics.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In the 1970s researchers noticed that radioactive particles produced by elements naturally present in packaging material could cause bits to flip in sensitive areas of electronic chips. Research into the effect of cosmic rays on semiconductors, an area of particular interest in the aerospace industry, led to methods of hardening electronic devices designed for harsh environments. Ultimately various mechanisms for fault creation and propagation were discovered, and in particular it was noted that many cryptographic algorithms succumb to so-called fault attacks.Preventing fault attacks without sacrificing performance is nontrivial and this is the subject of this book. Part I deals with side-channel analysis and its relevance to fault attacks. The chapters in Part II cover fault analysis in secret key cryptography, with chapters on block ciphers, fault analysis of DES and AES, countermeasures for symmetric-key ciphers, and countermeasures against attacks on AES. Part III deals with fault analysis in public key cryptography, with chapters dedicated to classical RSA and RSA-CRT implementations, elliptic curve cryptosystems and countermeasures using fault detection, devices resilient to fault injection attacks, lattice-based fault attacks on signatures, and fault attacks on pairing-based cryptography. Part IV examines fault attacks on stream ciphers and how faults interact with countermeasures used to prevent power analysis attacks. Finally, Part V contains chapters that explain how fault attacks are implemented, with chapters on fault injection technologies for microprocessors, and fault injection and key retrieval experiments on a widely used evaluation board.This is the first book on this topic and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners engaged with cryptographic engineering.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Joint-preserving techniques for conservative and operative treatment in gonarthritis are developing rapidly. This book outlines the latest treatment options for joint preservation in osteoarthritis. These include drug treatment, viscosupplementation, arthroscopy, cartilage transplantation and osteotomy. Experts have reviewed and updated each area including their own personal experience.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 -The advent of the digital computer has given great impetus to the development of modern discretization methods in structural mechanics. The young history of the finite element method (FEM) reflects the dramatic increase of computing speed and storage capacity within a relatively short period of time. The history of the boundary element method (BEM) is still younger. Presently, intense scientific efforts aimed at extending the range of application of the BEM can be observed. More than 10 years ago, O.C. Zienkiewicz and his co-workers published the first papers on the coupling of FE and BE discretizations of subregions of solids for the purpose of exploiting the complementary advantages of the two discretization methods and reducing their disadvantages. The FEM has revolutionized structural analysis in industry as well as academia. The BEM has a fair share in the continuation of this revolution. Both discretization methods have become a domain of vigorous, world-wide research activities. The rapid increase of the number of specialized journals and scientific meetings indicates the remarkable increase of research efforts in this important subdolll.ain of computational ulechanics. Several discussions of this situation in the Committee for Discretization Methods ill Solid Mechanics of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) resulted in the plan to submit a proposal to the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) to sponsor a pertinent IUTAM Symposium.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 468 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -b-physics at LEP.- Silicon Vertex Detectors and Particle Identification.- Experience in Reconstructing Z0 b b Events.- Tagging Z0 b b Events.- Tagging b-quark Charge.- Double-Hemisphere Tagging.- Optimal b-Flavour and b-Hadron Reconstruction.- Conclusion and Next Steps.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Most up-to-date review of the important technological advances and concepts in cardiac electrotherapy.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Owing to the tremendously rapid development of the sciences publi cations of congresses and meetings are frequently out-of-date by the time they appear in print. We endeavoured to publish the report of the Sym posium in Montreux in as short a time as possible. In order to reduce the cost, the manuscripts hat to be confined to few pages at the most and it was absolutely necessary to limit the number of illustrations. For the Symposium in question we invited all those authors of whom we knew they were acquainted with the medicinal application of fast elec trons to take part in a discussion covering their particular field of interest. Other lectures were also admitted without exception. Unfortunately on account of various extrinsic reasons the time between the application to take part in the Symposium and the Meeting itself was far too short which fact prevented some well-known scientists from coming to Montreux. In cases where no speaker was to be found for a certain subject Bernese and Milano Institutes (Doc. Dr. med. P. L. CaVA) filled the gap whenever and wherever possible.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 440 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -One major branch of enhancing the performance of evolutionary algorithms is the exploitation of linkage learning. This monograph aims to capture the recent progress of linkage learning, by compiling a series of focused technical chapters to keep abreast of the developments and trends in the area of linkage. In evolutionary algorithms, linkage models the relation between decision variables with the genetic linkage observed in biological systems, and linkage learning connects computational optimization methodologies and natural evolution mechanisms. Exploitation of linkage learning can enable us to design better evolutionary algorithms as well as to potentially gain insight into biological systems. Linkage learning has the potential to become one of the dominant aspects of evolutionary algorithms; research in this area can potentially yield promising results in addressing the scalability issues.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 -This book is a collection of papers contributed by some of the greatest names in the areas of chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Each paper examines a research topic at the frontier of the area of dynamical systems. As well as reviewing recent results, each paper also discusses the future perspectives of each topic. The result is an invaluable snapshot of the state of the eld by some of the most important researchers in the area. The rst contribution in this book (the section entitled ¿How did you get into Chaos ¿) is actually not a paper, but a collection of personal accounts by a number of participants of the conference held in Aberdeen in September 2007 to honour Celso Grebogi¿s 60th birthday. At the instigation of James Yorke, many of the most well-known scientists in the area agreed to share their tales on how they got involved in chaos during a celebratory dinner in Celsös honour during the conference. This was recorded in video, we felt that these accounts were a valuable historic document for the eld. So we decided to transcribe it and include it here as the rst section of the book.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Gonioscopy is a very important differential diagnostic tool that permits assessment of the anterior chamber angle and correct classification of glaucoma as a basis for specific treatment. This book clearly explains how to perform gonioscopy to best effect. The anatomy of the chamber angle is systematically described, and the impact of age, developmental disorders, and other pathologies on the chamber angle is explained. Particular attention is focused on primary and secondary open-angle and angle-closure glaucomas. In each case, the role of gonioscopy in evaluating the chamber angle is described with the help of many photographs and illustrations. The importance of knowledge of the chamber angle for laser treatment and surgery is fully explained, and the impact of medications is discussed. The practitioner will find in Gonioscopy all the information required to use the technique effectively in diagnosis and treatment.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 104 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Plants have evolved with a complex array of signaling molecules to facilitate their growth and development and their interactions with the environment. A vast number of different peptide molecules form an important but until recently often overlooked component amongst these signaling molecules. Plant peptide signals are involved in regulating meristem growth and organogenesis, modulating plant growth and homeostatic responses. They also have important roles as signals of imminent danger or pathogen attack. This volume focuses on the roles of various peptide signaling molecules in development, defence and homeostasis. As it is likely that further plant peptide signaling molecules remain to be discovered, the last section takes a practical look at methods to identify new peptides and characterise their functions.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book about homogeneous catalysis with metal complexes deals with the description of the reductive-oxidative, metal complexes in a liquid phase (in polar solvents, mainly in water, and less in nonpolar solvents). The exceptional importance of the redox processes in chemical systems, in the reactions occuring in living organisms, the environmental processes, atmosphere, water, soil, and in industrial technologies (especially in food-processing industries) is discussed. The detailed practical aspects of the established regularities are explained for solving the specific practical tasks in various fields of industrial chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, analytical chemistry and ecological chemistry. The main scope of the book is the survey and systematization of the latest advances in homogeneous catalysis with metal complexes. It gives an overview of the research results and practical experience accumulated by the author during the last decade.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 492 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Cardiac ion channels and mechanisms for protection against atrial fibrillation. Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells. Quantifying and modeling the temperature-dependent gating of TRP channels.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 128 pp. Englisch.