springer jun 1989 (6 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We have endeavoured in this book to bring the reader up-to-date information, which will contribute to an enhanced ability to diagnose and treat mycobacterial skin diseases. This volume is mainly concerned with conveying to dermatologists, microbiologists, immunologists, dermatologists in training, registrars in other specialties and interested family practitioners, a concise appraisal of some recent developments in the various aspects of myco bacterial skin diseases. The chapters dealing with bacteriology, pathology and immunology have been planned to appear at the beginning of the book to provide the necessary conceptual framework for the section on clinical science, which deals with the variety of clinical states. The value of the clinical descriptions is vastly enhanced by a careful reading of the earlier chapters. The contributing authors have been most cooperative in making this, the tenth volume in the New Clinical Applications in Dermatology series, an excellent treatise. I thank each of them for their superb contributions. If this book stimulates and encourages a greater interest in, and a better understanding of, mycobacterial skin diseases, and enables physicians to serve more effectively those who suffer, the time and effort spent to produce it will be amply rewarded. PROFESSOR MARWALI HARAHAP IX SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD It was with great pleasure that I heard of Professor Harahap's wish to produce a volume on mycobacterial skin diseases.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The goal of the research out of which this monograph grew, was to make annealing as much as possible a general purpose optimization routine. At first glance this may seem a straight-forward task, for the formulation of its concept suggests applicability to any combinatorial optimization problem. All that is needed to run annealing on such a problem is a unique representation for each configuration, a procedure for measuring its quality, and a neighbor relation. Much more is needed however for obtaining acceptable results consistently in a reasonably short time. It is even doubtful whether the problem can be formulated such that annealing becomes an adequate approach for all instances of an optimization problem. Questions such as what is the best formulation for a given instance, and how should the process be controlled, have to be answered. Although much progress has been made in the years after the introduction of the concept into the field of combinatorial optimization in 1981, some important questions still do not have a definitive answer. In this book the reader will find the foundations of annealing in a self-contained and consistent presentation. Although the physical analogue from which the con cept emanated is mentioned in the first chapter, all theory is developed within the framework of markov chains. To achieve a high degree of instance independence adaptive strategies are introduced.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, write in such a curious fashion that they confused a whole generation of disciples and created a cottage industry for a second generation in the interpretation of their works Do those curious writing strategies have a philosophical signif icance How does philosophical style reflect attitudes to society and politics or bear significance for the social sciences Is politics one type of human activity among many other independent ones as the classical modem political theorists from Hobbes and Machiavelli onwards have thought, or is it part and parcel of all of the activities into which an animal that speaks enters How could the latter be elucidated If politics arises from legitimate disputes about meanings, what does this imply for current cultural debates for the so-called social sciences above all, for that cultural conversation which some consider to be the destiny of philosophy in the wake of the demise of foundationalism These are a few of the most important questions which led me to the critical confrontation and reflections in the essays collected below.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Symposium on New Drugs provides a forum for academic investigators, research and development personnel from the pharmaceutical industry and members of the Food and Drug Administration to discuss important clinical research issues. The Ninth Annual symposium on New Drugs addressed the problem of determining the risk versus benefit for use of three important classes of cardiovascular agents: thrombolytic, antiarrhythmic, and hypolipidemic agents. The use of thrombolytic agents has become one of the major advances in clinical intensive cardiologic care in the 1980s. While the lysis of clot(s) obstructing a major coronary artery should reverse or prevent the damage of acute myocardial ischemia and infarction, one must carefully consider the potential risks of such agents in regards to their potential benefits. The time when a thrombolytic agent should be administered to maximize benefit as well as how one defines a dose response relationship using intravenous critical care medicines were discussed as important clinical trial issues. The benefit versus risk data on currently available thrombolytic agents was reviewed and the potential roles for adjunctive agents addressed. Overall strategies regarding post- x thrombolytic care and relationships to sudden cardiac death were also detailed. The panel discussion sections provided a comprehensive view of the current thinking of the various participating groups in this symposium. Sudden cardiac death remains the number one cause of mortality in western industrialized societies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When the external Quinton-Scribner arteriovenous shunt was developed in 1960, and, a little later, the internal Brescia-Cimino arteriovenous fistula was developed as a vascular access for hemodialysis, thereby making possible regular dialysis therapy of chronic uremic patients, many nephrologists became surgeons, having learned the type of vascular surgery related to hemodialysis quite well. The same series of events occurred with regards to peritoneal dialysis with the introduction of the Tenckhoff catheter and the need for gaining a permanent access to the peritoneum for chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) therapy. With time, however, problems relating to vascular and peritoneal access have forced many nephrologists to give up their surgery; meanwhile, many surgeons have become quite expert in some sophisticated techniques relating to dial ysis (e. g., vessel grafting, prosthesis implantation, etc.). Today, whether or not involved in this type of surgery, both nephrologists and surgeons remain interested in knowing all available access devices for dialysis as well as the surgical techniques involved. However, all nephrologists involved in dialysis must know how to prevent or treat complications related to dialysis access. Thus, it appeared to me to be quite advisable to have a book in my series, Topics in Renal Medicine, dealing with vascular and peritoneal access for dialysis.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Back to Man Himself': The Philosophical Inspiration of Zurab Kakabadze.- I Historical Origins Revisited.- The Phenomenological Ontology of the Göttingen Circle.- II Man Constituting His Life-World: The Origin of Sense, Meaning, Objectivity, Transcendental Consciousness and Actual Existence.- The Formation of Sense and Creative Experience.- The Interrogation of Perceptive Faith.- The Concept of Attitude in Edmund Husserl's Philosophy.- Delineation and Analysis of Objectivities in Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology.- Meaning as the Reality of the World.- III Constitutive Consciousness, Transcendendentalism, and the Problem of 'Actual Existence'.- Controversy about Actual Existence: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's Contribution to the Study of Roman Ingarden's Philosophy.- An Attempt to Reconcile Intersubjectivity with Transcendental Idealism in Edmund Husserl's Works.- The Ingarden-Husserl Controversy: The Methodological Status of Consciousness in Phenomenology and the Limits of the Human Condition.- Husserl's Transcendental Paradox and an Attempt at Overcoming It.- On Some Presuppositions of Husserl's 'Presuppositionless' Philosophy.- IV Human Existence in its Moral Significance: The Origins of Morality, Values, Foundations.- Man's Existence in the Realm of Values.- The Ontology of Values: From Neo-Kantianism to Phenomenology.- Ontological Bases of Morality: Moral Realism and Phenomenological Praxeology.- Meaning in the Social World: A-T. Tymieniecka's Theory of the Moral Sense.- On Responsibility.- V The Aesthetic Significance of Life: Ontology, Aesthetic Perception, Hermeneutics, and the Life of the Work of Art Reflecting the Deepest Concerns of a Culture.- 'What Is Our Life ' Cultural History and Aesthetic Experience in Literary Reception.-The Aesthetic Core of the Work of Art: The Boundaries of Its Phenomenological Description.- Victor Iancu's Phenomenology of Art.- The Ontology of Objects in Ingarden's Aesthetics.- De Interpretatione: New Creative and Existential Dimensions of Hermeneutics in Post-Modernism.- The Reception in Polish Literature of Roman Ingarden's Theory of Painting.- Common Humanity and the Present-Day Romanian Novel (Reflection and Refraction).- VI Thought and Language.- Literary Semantics and the Concepts of Meaning and Sense.- The Limit and Reaching Beyond a Philosophico-Philological Investigation.- No Thinking Without Words.- On Roman Ingarden's Semiotic Views: A Contribution to the History of Polish Semiotics.- VII Prospects for an Adequate Phenomenological Anthropology: The Search for a 'Method', the Natural World, Man's Self-Understanding.- Phenomenology and Self-Understanding in the Modern World: The Crisis of Modernity and the Possibility of a New and Critical Anthropology.- Un philosophe du monde naturel: Jan Pato ka (1907-1977).- The Creative Explosion of the Life-World in Schizophrenic Psychosis: Its Import for Psychotherapy.- Phenomenology as the Method of Contemporary Philosophical Anthropology.- VIII Man's Historical Existence and the Life of the Spirit: Teleology, the Other, Freedom.- The Teleological Structure of Historical Being (The Analysis of the Problem Made in Husserl's Work, Crisis in European Science and Transcendental Phenomenology).- Husserl and Heidegger: Phenomenology and Ontology.- On the Paths of Cartesian Freedom: Sartre and Levinas.- Bibliographies.- Bibliography of Phenomenology in Poland.- Bibliography of Phenomenology in Yugoslavia.- Supplementary Bibliography of Phenomenology in Yugoslavia.- Index of Names.