Springer nov 1995 (16 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Silicone Gels as Adjuvants: Effects on Humoral and Cellmediated Immune Responses; J.O. Naim, C.J. van Oss The Effect of Molecular Weight and Gel Preparation on Humoral Adjuvancy of Silicone Oils and Silicone Gels; J.O. Naim, C.J. van Oss Glucans as Immunological Adjuvants; N. Mohagheghpour, et al. Copolymer Adjuvants; R.N. Brey Regulation of Il4 and Il5 Secretion by Histamine and PGE2; M.M. Khan Immunoglobulin Isotype Modulation after Administration of Il12; V. Van Cleave, et al. Substance P Mediated Stimulation of Cytokine Levels in Cultured Murine Bone Marrow Stromal Cells; J.M. Manske, et al. Malaria Transmissionblocking Immunity: Identification of Epitopes and Evaluation of Immunogenicity; N. Kumar, et al. Experimental Feline Lyme Borreliosis As a Model for Testing Borrelia burgdorferi Vaccines; M.D. Gibson, et al. Liposoma Vaccines; S. Green, et al. Protection Strategies against Botulinum Toxin; L. Middlebrook Collagen Arthritis in T Cell Receptor Congenic Mice: A Unique Approach to Study the Role of T Cell Receptor Genotypes in Autoimmune Arthritis; G.H.H. Nabozny, C.S. David The Blood-Brain Barrier in Virusinduced Demyelination; C.J.R. Welsh, et al. 14 additional articles. Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Glycoprotein Analysis: A Review of the Biological Significance of Carbohydrates on Glycoproteins and Methods for Their Analysis; R. Dennis The Different FACES of Diseases; J. Klock, C.M. Starr The Glycosyltransferases: Control and Function of Complextype Oligosaccharide Synthesis: Novel Variants of the LAcNAc Pathway; D.H. van den Eijnden, et al. The Regulation of Cell and Tissuespecific Expression of Glycans by Glycosyltransferases; A. Dinter, E.G. Berger Oligosaccharides and Biological Function: Olinked Nacetylglucosamine: The 'YinYang' of Ser/Thr Phosphorylation G.W. Hart, et al. Heparan Sulphate and Protein Recognition: Binding Specificies and Activation Mechanisms; J.T. Gallagher Glycosylation and Disease: An Introduction to Glycosylation and Rheumatic Disease: What Is the Current State of Play J.S. Axford, A. Alavi Abnormalities in the Glycosylation of IgG-Its Clinical Utility; D.A. Isenberg Carbohydrates and Therapeutics: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Oligosaccharide Libraries; Y. Ding, et al. In vivo Targeting Function of Nlinked Oligosaccharides; K.G. Rice, et al. 23 additional articles. Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Air data and air data systems. Aerodynamics and aircraft control. Fly-by-wire flight control. Inertial sensors and systems. Navigation systems. Displays and man-machine interaction. Autopilots and flight management systems. Avionic systems integration. Glossary of terms. List of symbols. List of abbreviations. Index.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Preface. List of participants. 1. Resource allocation, demography and the radiation life histories in rough periwinkles (Gastropoda); R.N. Hughes. 2. TBT effects on female genital system of Littorina littorea: a possible indicator of tributyltin pollution; B. Bauer, et al. 3. Comparison of imposex response in three Prosobranch species; M. Huet, et al. 4. Validation of a planimetric procedure to quantify stress in Littorina littorea (Gastropoda: Mollusca): is it independent of the reproductive cycle ; G. Calvo-Ugarteburu, et al. 5. Fine structure of the cephalic sensory organ in veliger larvae of Littorina littorea (L.) (Mesogastropoda, Littorinidae); D. Uthe. 6. Egg capsule morphology of five Hong Kong rocky shore littorinids; Y.M. Mat. 7. Shape variation in the rough periwinkle Littorina saxatilis on the west and south coasts of Britain; P.J. Mill, J. Grahame. 8. Microgeographical variation in shell strength in the flat periwinkles Littorina obtusata and L. mariae; C.R. Fletcher. 9. Lack of metabolic temperature compensation in the intertidal gastropods, Littorina saxatilis and L. obtusata; R.F. MacMahon, et al. 10. Effects of ambient temperature acclimation on nitrogen excretion and differential catabolism of protein and non-protein resources in the intertidal snails, Littorina saxatilis (Olivi) and L.obtusata (L.); D.W. Aldridge, et al. 11. Environmentally induced variation in uric acid concentration and xanthine dehydrogenase activity in Littorina saxatilis (Olivi) and L. arcana Hannaford Ellis; D.C. Smith, etal. 12. Crystalline calcium in littorinid mucus trails; M.S. Davies, S.J. Hutchinson. 13. Allozyme comparisons of four littorinid species morphologically similar to Littorina sitkama; N.I. Zaslavskaya. 14. The relationship between position on shore and shell ornamentation in two size-dependent morphotypes of Littorina striata, with an estimate of evaporative water loss in these morphotypes and in Melaraphe neritoides; J.C. Britton. 15. Maintenance of zonation patterns in two species of flat periwinkle, Littorina obtusata and L. mariae; G.A. Williams. 16. Seasonal migration promoting assortative mating in Littorina brevicula on a boulder shore in Japan; Y. Takada. 17. Extreme morphological diversity between populations of Littorina obtusata (L.) from Iceland and the UK; R.I. Lewis, G.A. Williams. 18. Frequency- and density-dependent sexual selection in natural populations of Galician Littorina saxatilis (Olivi); E. Rolán-Alvarez, et al. 19. Dispersal and population expansion in a direct developing marine snail (Littorina saxatilis) following a severe population bottleneck; K. Johannesson, B. Johanneson. 20. A geographically-based study of shell shape in small rough periwinkles; K.J. Caley, et al.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book develops a clear and systematic treatment of time series of data, regular and chaotic, that one finds in observations of nonlinear systems. The reader is led from measurements of one or more variables through the steps of building models of the source as a dynamical system, classifying the source by its dynamical characteristics, and finally predicting and controlling the dynamical system. The text examines methods for separating the signal of physical interest from contamination by unwanted noise, and for investigating the phase space of the chaotic signal and its properties.The emphasis throughout is on the use of the modern mathematical tools for investigating chaotic behavior to uncover properties of physical systems. The methods require knowledge of dynamical systems at the advanced undergraduate level and some knowledge of Fourier transforms and other signal processing methods.The toolkit developed in the book will provide the reader with efficient and effective methods for analyzing signals from nonlinear sources; these methods are applicable to problems of control, communication, and prediction in a wide variety of systems encountered in physics, chemistry, biology, and geophysics.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A logic view of 0-1 integer programming problems, providing new insights into the structure of problems that can lead the researcher to more effective solution techniques depending on the problem class. Operations research techniques are integrated into a logic programming environment. The first monographic treatment that begins to unify these two methodological approaches. Logic-based methods for modelling and solving combinatorial problems have recently started to play a significant role in both theory and practice. The application of logic to combinatorial problems has a dual aspect. On one hand, constraint logic programming allows one to declaratively model combinatorial problems over an appropriate constraint domain, the problems then being solved by a corresponding constraint solver. Besides being a high-level declarative interface to the constraint solver, the logic programming language allows one also to implement those subproblems that cannot be naturally expressed with constraints. On the other hand, logic-based methods can be used as a constraint solving technique within a constraint solver for combinatorial problems modelled as 0-1 integer programs.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advances in sensing, signal processing, and computer technology during the past half century have stimulated numerous attempts to design general-purpose ma chines that see. These attempts have met with at best modest success and more typically outright failure. The difficulties encountered in building working com puter vision systems based on state-of-the-art techniques came as a surprise. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the problem is that machine vision sys tems cannot deal with numerous visual tasks that humans perform rapidly and effortlessly. In reaction to this perceived discrepancy in performance, various researchers (notably Marr, 1982) suggested that the design of machine-vision systems should be based on principles drawn from the study of biological systems. This 'neuro morphic' or 'anthropomorphic' approach has proven fruitful: the use of pyramid (multiresolution) image representation methods in image compression is one ex ample of a successful application based on principles primarily derived from the study of biological vision systems. It is still the case, however, that the perfor of computer vision systems falls far short of that of the natural systems mance they are intended to mimic, suggesting that it is time to look even more closely at the remaining differences between artificial and biological vision systems.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For a North American seeking to know the Mexican mind, and especially the sciences today and in their recent development, a great light of genius is to be found in Mexico City in the late 17th century. Tbe genius is that of one who surely may be counted as the first Mexican philosopher of nature, a nun of the Order of Saint Jerome: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Sor Juana must speak for herself, from her penetrating exercise of an independent mind within a political and religious formation which denigrated women and circumscribed reason itself. To understand this world of ours, to join in an enlightenment which would be both natural and inspired, Sor Juana clearly understood the requirements of leaming, observing, logic and reasoning. In darkness foundering Words fail the troubled mind. For who, I ask, can light me When Reason is blind Even now, after the great steps toward liberation of women, and the substantial scientific contributions toward sheer empirical awareness of both the multiple orders ofNature and the subtle aesthetics ofindividual art and social harmony, we too in the earthly world of the 20th century must affirm what she affirmed.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Software is difficult to develop, maintain, and reuse. Two factors that contribute to this difficulty are the lack of modular design and good program documentation. The first makes software changes more difficult to implement. The second makes programs more difficult to understand and to maintain. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs describes a novel approach to promoting program modularity. The book presents a formal specification language that promotes software modularity through the use of abstract data types, even though the underlying programming language may not have such support. This language is structured to allow useful information to be extracted from a specification, which is then used to perform consistency checks between the specification and its implementation. Formal Specification Techniques for Engineering Modular C Programs also describes a specification-driven, software re-engineering process model for improving existing programs. The aim of this process is to make existing programs easier to maintain and reuse while keeping their essential functionalities unchanged. Audience: Suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in software engineering, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In science, engineering and economics, decision problems are frequently modelled by optimizing the value of a (primary) objective function under stated feasibility constraints. In many cases of practical relevance, the optimization problem structure does not warrant the global optimality of local solutions; hence, it is natural to search for the globally best solution(s). Global Optimization in Action provides a comprehensive discussion of adaptive partition strategies to solve global optimization problems under very general structural requirements. A unified approach to numerous known algorithms makes possible straightforward generalizations and extensions, leading to efficient computer-based implementations. A considerable part of the book is devoted to applications, including some generic problems from numerical analysis, and several case studies in environmental systems analysis and management. The book is essentially self-contained and is based on theauthor's research, in cooperation (on applications) with a number of colleagues. Audience: Professors, students, researchers and other professionals in the fields of operations research, management science, industrial and applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics and the environmental sciences.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is concerned with wafer fabrication and the factories that manufacture microprocessors and other integrated circuits. With the invention of the transistor in 1947, the world as we knew it changed. The transistor led to the microprocessor, and the microprocessor, the guts of the modern computer, has created an epoch of virtually unlimited information processing. The electronics and computer revolution has brought about, for better or worse, a new way of life. This revolution could not have occurred without wafer fabrication, and its associated processing technologies. A microprocessor is fabricated via a lengthy, highly-complex sequence of chemical processes. The success of modern chip manufacturing is a miracle of technology and a tribute to the hundreds of engineers who have contributed to its development. This book will delineate the magnitude of the accomplishment, and present methods to analyze and predict the performance of the factories that make the chips. The set of topics covered juxtaposes several disciplines of engineering. A primary subject is the chemical engineering aspects of the electronics industry, an industry typically thought to be strictly an electrical engineer's playground. The book also delves into issues of manufacturing, operations performance, economics, and the dynamics of material movement, topics often considered the domain of industrial engineering and operations research. Hopefully, we have provided in this work a comprehensive treatment of both the technology and the factories of wafer fabrication. Novel features of these factories include long process flows and a dominance of processing over operational issues.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Linear Programming: A Modern Integrated Analysis, both boundary (simplex) and interior point methods are derived from the complementary slackness theorem and, unlike most books, the duality theorem is derived from Farkas's Lemma, which is proved as a convex separation theorem. The tedium of the simplex method is thus avoided. A new and inductive proof of Kantorovich's Theorem is offered, related to the convergence of Newton's method. Of the boundary methods, the book presents the (revised) primal and the dual simplex methods. An extensive discussion is given of the primal, dual and primal-dual affine scaling methods. In addition, the proof of the convergence under degeneracy, a bounded variable variant, and a super-linearly convergent variant of the primal affine scaling method are covered in one chapter. Polynomial barrier or path-following homotopy methods, and the projective transformation method are also covered in the interior point chapter. Besides the popular sparse Cholesky factorization and the conjugate gradient method, new methods are presented in a separate chapter on implementation. These methods use LQ factorization and iterative techniques.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Falk Symposium No. 82, held in Halle, Germany, November 1994, focuses on the advances made in understanding the aetiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Sections of this book, the Proceedings of the conference, are devoted to extraintestinal manifestations, cancer development, IBD in the context of pregnancy, and the assessment of disease activity, prognosis and quality of life. The second half of the book is devoted to the discussion of standards and new developments in diagnosis, conservative management and surgery. Audience: All clinicians and basic scientists working in the field of IBD.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents the latest research worldwide on communications protocols, emphasizing specification and compliance testing. It presents the complete proceedings of the fifteenth meeting on `Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification' arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rural areas need to fulfil a large variety of functions and to accommodate many activities. The complexity of the problems, limited funds, and the almost irreversible character of some interventions result in a compelling need to evaluate ex ante the effects of alternative solutions for designation of land, for measures to develop infrastructure, and for soil and water management. Scenario studies are undertaken to help manage the complexity, to place bounds on uncertainties, and to create new visions. After an overview of the nature, variety and scope of scenario studies, the book illuminates various European examples and reviews, under the following headings: regional soil and water management; nature development and landscape quality; rural planning and the future of regions.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Proceedings volume contains carefully selected papers presented during the 17th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization. Optimization theory and practice, optimal control, system modelling, stochastic optimization, and technical and non-technical applications of the existing theory are among areas mostly addressed in the included papers. Main directions are treated in addition to several survey papers based on invited presentations of leading specialists in the respective fields. Publication provides state-of-the-art in the area of system theory and optimization and points out several new areas (e.g fuzzy set, neural nets), where classical optimization topics intersects with computer science methodology.…