Springer mai 1997 (18 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume consists of fourteen chapters selected from papers presented at the conference `Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.' along with a response to those chapters by Engelhardt and a Foreword by Laurence B. McCullough. The chapters direct primary attention to various aspects of Engelhardt's philosophy of medicine and bioethics as presented in The Foundations of Bioethics and Bioethics and Secular Humanism: The Search for a Common Morality. Among the topics treated are the economics of health care and the medical profession, the libertarian and communitarian aspects of Engelhardt's thought, the moral status of children, abortion, the moral foundations for a health care system, feminism and clinical epistemology, and the relation between secular and religious moralities. In response to the various challenges posed by the authors, Engelhardt considers the implications of the failure of the modern philosophical project, the role of reason in ethics, and the resolution of conflict among communities that do not share the same moral vision. The book will be of interest to professionals in medicine, philosophy, theology, health policy, and law, and to graduate students in those disciplines. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - List of Figures. List of Examples. List of Tables. 1. Introduction. 2. Introduction to the VERILOG Language. 3. Structural Modeling. 4. Behavioral Modeling. 5. Operators. 6. Working with Behavioral Modeling. 7. User-Defined Primitives. 8. Parameterized Modules. 9. State Machines. 10. Modeling Tips. 11. Modeling Style Trade-offs. 12. Test Benches and Test Management. 13. Common Errors. 14. Debugging a Design. Appendix A: Gate Level Details. Appendix B: Example Summary. Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leaf Cell and Hierarchical Compaction Techniques presents novel algorithms developed for the compaction of large layouts. These algorithms have been implemented as part of a system that has been used on many industrial designs. The focus of Leaf Cell and Hierarchical Compaction Techniques is three-fold. First, new ideas for compaction of leaf cells are presented. These cells can range from small transistor-level layouts to very large layouts generated by automatic Place and Route tools. Second, new approaches for hierarchical pitchmatching compaction are described and the concept of a Minimum Design is introduced. The system for hierarchical compaction is built on top of the leaf cell compaction engine and uses the algorithms implemented for leaf cell compaction in a modular fashion. Third, a new representation for designs called Virtual Interface, which allows for efficient topological specification and representation of hierarchical layouts, is outlined. The Virtual Interface representation binds all of the algorithms and their implementations for leaf and hierarchical compaction into an intuitive and easy-to-use system. From the Foreword: `.In this book, the authors provide a comprehensive approach to compaction based on carefully conceived abstractions. They describe the design of algorithms that provide true hierarchical compaction based on linear programming, but cut down the complexity of the computations through introduction of innovative representations that capture the provably minimum amount of required information needed for correct compaction. In most compaction algorithms, the complexity goes up with the number of design objects, but in this approach, complexity is due to the irregularity of the design, and hence is often tractable for most designs which incorporate substantial regularity. Here the reader will find an elegant treatment of the many challenges ofcompaction, and a clear conceptual focus that provides a unified approach to all aspects of the compaction task.' Jonathan Allen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - MCMs today consist of complex and dense VLSI devices mounted into packages that allow little physical access to internal nodes. The complexity and cost associated with their test and diagnosis are major obstacles to their use. Multi-Chip Module Test Strategies presents state-of-the-art test strategies for MCMs. This volume of original research is designed for engineers interested in practical implementations of MCM test solutions and for designers looking for leading edge test and design-for-testability solutions for their next designs. Multi-Chip Module Test Strategies consists of eight contributions by leading researchers. It is designed to provide a comprehensive and well-balanced coverage of the MCM test domain. Multi-Chip Module Test Strategies has also been published as a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA, Volume 10, Numbers 1 and 2).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gaussian scale-space is one of the best understood multi-resolution techniques available to the computer vision and image analysis community. It is the purpose of this book to guide the reader through some of its main aspects. During an intensive weekend in May 1996 a workshop on Gaussian scale-space theory was held in Copenhagen, which was attended by many of the leading experts in the field. The bulk of this book originates from this workshop. Presently there exist only two books on the subject. In contrast to Lindeberg's monograph (Lindeberg, 1994e) this book collects contributions from several scale space researchers, whereas it complements the book edited by ter Haar Romeny (Haar Romeny, 1994) on non-linear techniques by focusing on linear diffusion. This book is divided into four parts. The reader not so familiar with scale-space will find it instructive to first consider some potential applications described in Part 1. Parts II and III both address fundamental aspects of scale-space. Whereas scale is treated as an essentially arbitrary constant in the former, the latter em phasizes the deep structure, i.e. the structure that is revealed by varying scale. Finally, Part IV is devoted to non-linear extensions, notably non-linear diffusion techniques and morphological scale-spaces, and their relation to the linear case. The Danish National Science Research Council is gratefully acknowledged for providing financial support for the workshop under grant no. 9502164.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents recent advances in algorithmic ways of introducing fault-tolerance in multiprocessors under the constraint of preserving efficiency. The difficulty associated with combining fault-tolerance and efficiency is that the two have conflicting means: fault-tolerance is achieved by introducing redundancy, while efficiency is achieved by removing redundancy. This monograph demonstrates how in certain models of parallel computation it is possible to combine efficiency and fault-tolerance and shows how it is possible to develop efficient algorithms without concern for fault-tolerance, and then correctly and efficiently execute these algorithms on parallel machines whose processors are subject to arbitrary dynamic fail-stop errors. The efficient algorithmic approaches to multiprocessor fault-tolerance presented in this monograph make a contribution towards bridging the gap between the abstract models of parallel computation and realizable parallel architectures. Fault-Tolerant Parallel Computation presents the state of the art in algorithmic approaches to fault-tolerance in efficient parallel algorithms. The monograph synthesizes work that was presented in recent symposia and published in refereed journals by the authors and other leading researchers. This is the first text that takes the reader on the grand tour of this new field summarizing major results and identifying hard open problems. This monograph will be of interest to academic and industrial researchers and graduate students working in the areas of fault-tolerance, algorithms and parallel computation and may also be used as a text in a graduate course on parallel algorithmic techniques and fault-tolerance.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the main goals of optimal control theory is to provide a theoretical basis for choosing an appropriate controller for whatever system is under consideration by the researcher or engineer. Two popular norms that have proved useful are known as H-2 and H - infinity control. The first has been particularly applicable to problems arising in the aerospace industry. However, most industrial problems are badly modeled and the second norm proved to be more appropriate when the actual conditions of the problem did not conform to the stipulated conditions of the theory. This book takes the topic of H-infinity control as a point of departure and pursues an improved controller design which has been suggested in the mainstream of robust control. Its main theme, minimum entropy control, provides a means of trading off some of the features of other control problems. The book is aimed at research workers in networking systems as well as those in operator theory and linear multivariable control. The use of stochastic methods makes the book also of importance to the circuits and systems community. CONTENTS: Preface - Introduction - Preliminaries - Induced Operator Norms - Discrete-Time Entropy - Connections With Related Optimal Control Problems - Minimum Entropy Control - Continuous-Time Entropy - A. Proof of Theorem - B. Proof of Theorem - Bibliography - Notation - Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Introduction. Mono(ADP-ribosyl)Transferases and Related Enzymes: Emerging Gene Families; F. Koch-Nolte, F. Haag. Mono-ADP-ribosylation in Prokaryotes. Crystal Structure of Diphtheria Toxin Bound to Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide; C.E. Bell, D. Eisenberg. Molecular Approaches to Eukaryotic Mono(ADP-ribosyl)Transferases. Sequence and Structural Links Between Distant ADp-ribosyltransferase Families; F. Bazan, F. Koch-Nolte. Moni(ADP-ribosyl)Transferases in the Immune System. Regulation of Cytotoxic T Cell Functions by a GPI-anchored Ecto-ADP-ribosyltransferase; J. Wang, et al. Mono-ADP-ribosylation in Other Animal Tissues. An ADP-Ribosyltransferase from Bovine Erythrocytes Apparently Specific for Cysteine Residues; S. van Heyningen, B. Saxty. Physiology of GPI-Anchored Proteins. Cell Surface Dynamics of GPI-anchored Proteins; F.R. Maxfield, S. Mayor. Relationship of ADP-Ribosyltransferases to NAD+ Glycohydrolases and ADP-ribosyl Cyclases. ADp-Ribose in Glycation and Glycoxidation Reactions; E.L. Jacobson, et al. Special Lecture Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Heinz-Günter Thiele. Appendix. 28 Additional Lectures. 24 Poster Reports. Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edition of The Credit Risk of Complex Derivatives is fully updated and enhanced. It discusses and analyses the credit risks of the new financial derivatives. The book commences with an overview of the regulatory environment and the renewed emphasis on risk Management. It then provides a comprehensive review of complex options and swaps, with extensive examples and illustrations. The text concludes with a detailed discussion of portfolio credit risk issues and techniques in order to ensure the most effective and accurate understanding of complex derivative credit risk.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FRANCIS W. HOLM 7102 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) in Prague, Czech Republic, on 1-2 July 1996, to collect and study information on mobile alternative and supplemental demilitarization technologies and to report these fmdings. The mobile, or transportable, technologies identified for assessment at the workshop are alternatives to incineration technology for destruction of munitions, chemical warfare agent, and associated materials and debris. Although the discussion focused on the treatment of metal parts and explosive or energetic material, requirements for decontamination of other materials were discussed. The mobile alternative technologies are grouped into three categories based on process bulk operating temperature: low (0-200 C), medium (200-600 C), and high (600- 3,500 C). Reaction types considered include hydrolysis, biodegradation, electrochemical oxidation, gas-phase high-temperature reduction, stearn reforming, gasification, sulfur reactions, solvated electron chemistry, sodium reactions, supercritical water oxidation, wet air oxidation, and plasma torch technology. These categories represent a broad spectrum of processes, some of which have been studied only in the laboratory and some of which are in commercial use for destruction of hazardous and toxic wastes. Some technologies have been developed and used for specific commercial applications; however, in all cases, research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT &E) is necessary to assure that each technology application is effective for destroying chemical warfare materiel.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advances in computer networking have allowed computer systems across the world to be interconnected. Open Distributed Processing (ODP) systems are those that support heterogenous distributed applications both within and between autonomous organizations. Many challenges must be overcome before ODP systems can be fully realized. This book describes the recent advances in the theory and practice of developing, deploying and managing open distributed systems. Applications of these systems include but are not limited to telecommunication, medical and large scale transaction processing and electronic commerce systems. All of these are currently developed on distributed platforms. For anybody working in industry or research in this field, Open Distributed Processing and Distributed Platforms will prove an invaluable text.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thymic epithelial tumors are rare and mostly malignant human neoplasms charac terized by a fascinating variety of morphological features and an unrivaled frequency of associated autoimmune diseases. As a consequence, a myriad of complex diagnostic and clinical problems ensues in patients with these tumors. Since only a few specialists in each country are familiar with these problems, this volume intends to summarize the state of the art of thymic epithelial tumor pathology and biology and treatment protocols. The vol ume is also designed to promote the interaction between scientists from a variety of disci plines and physicians treating thymoma patients. In the first part of the volume, morphological and immunohistological criteria are given for the various subtypes of thymic epithelial tumors. The two competing classifica tions and nomenclature systems existing to date are jointly considered. In addition. mor phological overlaps between organotypic and nonorganotypic thymic epithelial tumors are stressed, since they may have a major bearing on diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The second part of the volume is devoted to recent data on normal T-cell maturation and the impact of abnormal T-cell development in thymic epithelial tumors on the development of paraneoplastic autoimmunity. Multicolor flow cytometry. the human/SCI[}-mouse system, transgenic mouse technology, and T-cell cloning techniques have greatly contributed to this fascinating field of research.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recently, IT has entered all important areas of society. Enterprises, individuals and civilisations all depend on functioning, safe and secure IT. Focus on IT security has previously been fractionalised, detailed and often linked to non-business applicaitons. The aim of this book is to address the current and future prospects of modern IT security, functionality in business, trade, industry, health care and government. The main topic areas covered include existing IT security tools and methodology for modern IT environments, laws, regulations and ethics in IT security environments, current and future prospects in technology, infrastructures, technique and methodology and IT security in retrospective.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book contains the papers presented and discussed at the conference that was held in May/June 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and that was sponsored by Working Group 8.2 of the International Federation for Information Processing. IFIP established 8.2 as a group concerned with the interaction of information systems and the organization. Information Systems and Qualitative Research is essential reading for professionals and students working in information systems in a business environment, such as systems analysts, developers and designers, data administrators, and senior executives in all business areas that use information technology, as well as consultants in the fields of information systems, management, and quality management.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive workbook offers a thorough review of today's high performance plastics and manufacturing processes. Focusing on common processing problems and practical solutions this book surveys fundamental processing concepts for every major fabrication technique in use today and provides extensive data on controls, instrumentation, materials and molding technologies. This second edition is fully updated with the addition of new material, new tables and new figures. Other useful features include: numerous examples of various phases of processing; a detailed review of each plastics process; the effect of changing one variable while others are constant. £/LIST£.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Acipenser brevirostrum female 58 cm long from the Hudson River near Kingston, New York, above Acipenser oxyrinchus male 58 cm long from the Lawrence River near St. Vallier, Quebec, by Paul I. Voevodine from Vladykov & Greeley (1963). 1 Sturgeon landing on the Volga River. From an engraving in Moynet . p. 85. 1 Moynet, M. 1867. LaVolga. LeTourduMonde15: 81 96. Environmental Biology of Fishes 48: 373 380,1997. 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Sturgeons and the Aral Sea ecological catastrophe Iliya Zholdasova Institute of Bioecology, Karakalpak Branch of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Nukus, Republic Ka- kalpakstan Received5.4.1995 Accepted16.3.1996 Key words: Amu-Dar River, Syr-Dar River, Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni, P. fedtschenkoi, P. hermanni, Acipenser nudiventris, pollution, acclimatization, Nitzschia Synopsis A short description of the catastrophic changes in the ecology of the Aral Sea basin during the three last decades is presented. These changes have influenced the status oftwo acipenserid endemics to the area, the large Amu-Dar shovelnose, Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni, and the ship sturgeon,Acipensernudiventris. The main biological characteristics ofboth species in the new environmental conditions are given. Previous unsuccessful attempts to introduce other acipenserid species into the area are also described. International cooperationisneededforsavingthelastsurvivingspeciesrepresentingthegenusPseudoscaphirhynchus.The only twootherspeciesofthe same genus, P.fedtschenkoi and P . hermanni, have alreadybecome victims ofthe Aral Sea catastrophe and are apparently extinct. Introduction 1993). Twosturgeonspecies, the Syr-Dar and small Amu-Dar shovelnose sturgeons, were among the Historically the endemic fauna ofthe Aral Sea ba- first victims of this disaster and seem to be extinct.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases, is the outcome of the First International Rushmore Conference on Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of En teric Diseases, held in September 1995 at Rapid City, South Dakota. The meeting was or ganized by members of the North-Central Regional Research Committee 'NC-62,' a United States Department of Agriculture-sponsored consortium of swine enteric disease researchers from land-grant institutions. This conference was conceived as a forum for an interdisciplinary discussion of mechanisms of infectious diseases. It was intended that such a discussion would stimulate cross-fostering of ideas and nurture synergistic collabo rations among scientists working on enteric diseases of humans and animals_. In atten dance, there were more than 140 participants from the United States and 12 foreign countries representing all of the world's continents. Participants brought expertise from many disciplines in both human and veterinary medicine. Multiple perspectives and an in formal atmosphere provided an environment for lively and thought-provoking discussions. Conference topics included Pathobiology of Gastroenteric Diseases, Mechanisms of Iden tity and Interaction between Host and Pathogen, Effector Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases, Regulation of Pathogenic Activity in Enteric Diseases, and Novel Ap proaches to Prevention and Therapy of Enteric Diseases. Ten internationally renowned scientists gave keynote presentations in addition to 30 oral presentations and 39 poster presentations. The keynote speakers were Drs.…

Softcover. Zustand: gut. Auflage: 1 (30. Mai 1997). Computeralgebra Differentialrechnung Fourier-Analysis Ingenieurmathematik Integralrechnung Maple Mathematik Lehrbuch Ingenieure Techniker Vektoranalyse Dieses zweibändige Lehrwerk deckt den üblichen Mathematikstoff für sämtliche Ingenieurstudiengänge an Fachhochschulen ab. Der Lehrstoff wird erarbeitet, indem Werkzeuge der Computeralgebra mit durchgerechneten Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Technik kombiniert werden. Abstrakte mathematische Begriffe werden anschaulich erklärt, auf Beweise wird größtenteils verzichtet. Für die numerische Bearbeitung vieler Problemstellungen dienen die angegebenen Algorithmen. Auf der beiliegenden CD-ROM befinden sich neben Animationen auch die im Buch abgedruckten MAPLE-Worksheets, mit denen der Stoff direkt beim Lernen aus dem Buch interaktiv eingeübt werden kann. Neben dem Gebrauch zur Vorlesung sind die Bände also auch hervorragend für das Selbststudium geeignet. Der zweite Band umfaßt die Themengebiete "Differential- und Integralrechnung für Funktionen mehrerer Varibaler", "Gewöhnliche und partielle Differentialgleichungen" und "Fourier-Analysis". Über den AutorThomas Westermann studierte an der Universität Konstanz Mathematik und Physik mit Diplomabschluss 1985 in Mathematik. Er promovierte 1988 im Bereich der Computerphysik und war anschließend wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe mit den Arbeitsschwerpunkten Modellierung und Simulation. Seit 1993 ist er Professor für Angewandte Mathematik und Computersimulation an der HS Karlsruhe. Für sein didaktisches Konzept wurde der Autor mit dem Preis der G.A. Müller-Stiftung zur Förderung der Qualität der Lehre ausgezeichnet. 2008 wurde ihm der Lehrpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg auch für seine didaktisch hervorragenden Lehrbücher verliehen. und das nicht nur für FH-Studenten. Ein Werk, dass sich sowohl zum Lernen, als auch zum Nachschlagen hervorragend eignet. Das Buch ist durchgehend gut gegliedert und vor allem ist es verständlich geschrieben, was ich bei vielen anderen Mathebüchern vermisse. Westermann erschlägt nicht mit Seitenlangen Rechnungen, bei denen man nach der dritte Zeile schon nicht mehr weiß, was eigentlich in der ersten stand. Ein gelungenes Lehrbuch, mit dem sogar Mathe Spaß macht! Dieses Buch ist ein äußerst empfehlenswerter Leitfaden für die Mathematik im Grundstudium und eignet sich auch hervorragend als Nachschlagewerk.Was dieses Werk wohl am meisten von den Standard- Mathematikwerken unterscheidet ist der starke Bezug zu verschiedensten Anwendungsbereichen. Westermann gelingt es mit diesem Buch die Mathematik dem Studenten nahezubringen, indem er auf praxisorientierte Beispiele zurückgreift. Die Anwendungsbeispiele sind sehr hilfreich für das Verständnis, da die "abstrakte Rechnerei" zum Werkzeug wird, um reale Probleme zu lösen. Der Aufbau ist sehr gut strukturiert. Themengebiete beginnen mit den oben genannten Anwendungsbeispielen. Die einzelnen Schritte werden ersichtlich dargelegt und mit Beispielen vertieft. Zusätzlich verdeutlichen Graphiken den Sachverhalt. Ein weiterer Bonuspunkt ist, dass es zu allen Themen auch eine Anleitung gibt, die jeweiligen Verfahren mit Maple zu konstruieren. Bevor das nächste Thema angeschnitten wird, erhält man eine Zusammenstellung der Maple-Befehle und das Ganze schließt mit einem Aufgabenteil (Aufgaben zum Rechnen und für Maple) ab, um das gewonnene Wissen zu untermauern. Lösungen sind im Buch dabei, was in vielen anderen Werken leider allzu oft fehlt. Für Maple Anwendungen ist das Verzeichnis von Maple-Befehlen im Buchende sehr hilfreich. Alles in allem kann ich jedem dieses Buch sehr empfehlen. In deutscher Sprache. 564 pages. 23,6 x 15,7 x 3,4 cm.…