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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Die 2. Überarbeitete und aktualisierte Auflage des Buches informiert über den neuesten Stand der Wissenschaft auf dem Gebiet der 'Grünen Gentechnik' und beschreibt die Methoden zur Erzeugung transgener Pflanzen, die Erkenntnisse über ihre Kultivierung und die Bestrebungen zu ihrem Inverkehrbringen. Die wichtigsten Argumente der Risikodiskussion sowie die gesetzlichen Regelungen zur Gentechnik innerhalb der EU werden übersichtlich dargestellt.Transgene Pflanzen ermöglicht es jedem, sich ein Urteil über die 'Grüne Gentechnik' zu bilden. Die Vermittlung von Informationen an eine breitere Öffentlichkeit ist dabei unabdingbar für eine bewusste Wahlfreiheit zwischen Lebensmitteln aus gentechnisch veränderten, konventionell gezüchteten oder ökologisch angebauten Pflanzen.Die umfassende Darstellung der verschiedenen Aspekte der transgenen Pflanzen macht das Buch lesenswert für eine vielfältige Leserschaft und erleichtert den Einstieg in einen Themenkomplex, der im Brennpunkt der öffentlichen Diskussion steht.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 380 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This monograph considers problems of optimal control for partial differential equa tions of elliptic and, more importantly, of hyperbolic types on networked domains. The main goal is to describe, develop and analyze iterative space and time domain decompositions of such problems on the infinite-dimensional level. While domain decomposition methods have a long history dating back well over one hundred years, it is only during the last decade that they have become a major tool in numerical analysis of partial differential equations. A keyword in this context is parallelism. This development is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that we just encountered the 15th annual conference precisely on this topic. Without attempting to provide a complete list of introductory references let us just mention the monograph by Quarteroni and Valli [91] as a general up-to-date reference on domain decomposition methods for partial differential equations. The emphasis of this monograph is to put domain decomposition methods in the context of so-called virtual optimal control problems and, more importantly, to treat optimal control problems for partial differential equations and their decom positions by an all-at-once approach. This means that we are mainly interested in decomposition techniques which can be interpreted as virtual optimal control problems and which, together with the real control problem coming from an un derlying application, lead to a sequence of individual optimal control problems on the subdomains that are iteratively decoupled across the interfaces.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Methods, just as diseases or scientists, have their own history. It is important for scientists to be aware of the genesis of the methods they use and of the context in which they were developed.A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts is based on a collection of contributions which appeared in 'SPM International Journal of Public Health', starting in January 2001. The contributions focus on the historical emergence of current epidemiological methods and their relative importance at different points in time, rather than on specific achievements of epidemiology in controlling plagues such as cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever, or lung cancer. The papers present the design of prospective and retrospective studies, and the concepts of bias, confounding, and interaction. The compilation of articles is complemented by an introduction and comments by Prof. Alfredo Morabia which puts them in the context of current epidemiological research.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 428 pp. Englisch.