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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frontiers in Propagation.- Statistics of the Temporal Variations in the Wireless Transmission Channel in Indoor Environments.- UHF-radio Propagation Predictor for Temporal Variations in Populated Indoor Environments.- An Improved Approach for Performance Evaluation of the Downlink of DS-CDMA PCS Indoor Systems with Distributed Antennas.- Fast and Enhanced Ray Optical Propagation Modeling for Radio Network Planning in Urban and Indoor Scenarios.- Indoor Propagation Analysis Techniques for Characterization of Ultra-wideband RF Environments.- Propagation Signatures to Characterise Wideband Environments.- Spatial Processing.- Smart Antennas for CDMA Cellular and PCS Networks.- Key techniques realizing smart antenna hardware for microcell communication systems.- Downlink Capacity Enhancement in GSM System Using Multiple Beam Smart Antenna and SWR Implementation.- Generalized Equations for Spatial Correlation for Low to Moderate Angle Spread.- Exploitation of Internode MIMO Channel Diversity in Spatially Distributed Multipoint Communication Networks.- Design of 16-QAM Space-time Codes for Rapid Rayleigh Fading Channels.- Transmit Diversity With More Than Two Antennas.- Reduced Complexity Space-time Optimum Processing.- Network System Design.- Wireless personal communications system planning using combinatorial optimisation.- Frequency Planning and Adjacent Channel Interference in a DSSS Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).- Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Packet Erasure Channels.- Reducing handover probability through mobile positioning.- Multi-user Detection Using the Iteration Algorithm in Fast-fading Channels.- Next Generation and Beyond.- FPGA DSP for Wireless Communication.- Signal Processing Requirements of the TDD Terminal.- Frame Quality-based Versus Eb/No-based Forward Power Control Methods for the cdma2000 Third Generation Standard.- Bluetooth: A Short Tutorial.- Bluetooth: A Short Tutorial.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The increasing amount of information available in today's world raises the need to retrieve relevant data efficiently. Unlike text-based retrieval, where keywords are successfully used to index into documents, content-based image retrieval poses up front the fundamental questions how to extract useful image features and how to use them for intuitive retrieval. We present a novel approach to the problem of navigating through a collection of images for the purpose of image retrieval, which leads to a new paradigm for image database search. We summarize the appearance of images by distributions of color or texture features, and we define a metric between any two such distributions. This metric, which we call the 'Earth Mover's Distance' (EMD), represents the least amount of work that is needed to rearrange the mass is one distribution in order to obtain the other. We show that the EMD matches perceptual dissimilarity better than other dissimilarity measures, and argue that it has many desirable properties for image retrieval. Using this metric, we employ Multi-Dimensional Scaling techniques to embed a group of images as points in a two- or three-dimensional Euclidean space so that their distances reflect image dissimilarities as well as possible. Such geometric embeddings exhibit the structure in the image set at hand, allowing the user to understand better the result of a database query and to refine the query in a perceptually intuitive way.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I am honored to chair this International Workshop on Functionally st Graded Materials in the 21 Century: A Workshop on Trends and Forecasts, and would like to first express my sincere gratitude to everyone participating. The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory and the Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Center (JISTEC) have co-organized this workshop with the sponsorship of the Science and Technology Agency of Japan and the cooperation of the Association of Mechanical Technology. This workshop is an international conference to focus on functionally graded materials and the aim is to provide an overview of the present global technical trends and the future development of functionally graded materials over the next 10 years. I am very happy to see many researchers meeting together here - including seven researchers invited from abroad. During the three-day oral sessions, 36 research reports will be presented, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is very anxious to hear and participate in the upcoming interesting discussions. At present, the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory is conducting fundamental and ground-breaking research in such major areas as materials science and technology, bioengineering, information & system science, advanced machine technology, energy technology, manufacturing technology and robotics. In particular, we consider research on materials science and technology to have the highest priority for the 21st century. and since 1996 have participated in the US-Japan joint research project, Precompetitive Processing and Characterization of Functionally Graded Materials.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the United States alone, the incidence of new cases of thoracic neoplasms is over 180,000. Each year, over 170,000 individuals are expected to die of their cancer. Lung cancer is the most common of the thoracic neoplasms. It is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women, accounting for 28% of all cancer deaths in the United States. Thoracic Oncology provides an up-to-date and concise review of the various thoracic neoplasms and offers a better understanding of the biology, natural history, diagnosis and treatment of these malignancies. This book will be of particular interest to clinicians interested in thoracic neoplasms, to better understand and treat them.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Infectious Complications in Transplant Patients has been uniquely designed and formatted to address issues and trends pertaining to pathogens deemed important in critically ill transplant patients. The chapters have been carefully selected so as to direct the focus of the book towards current approaches to controversial, emerging or topical problems in these patients. Each chapter has been authored by a North American and a European specialist. This format serves to impart an added dimension reflective of the diversity of opinions and practices pertaining to unresolved or controversial issues. The authors are recognized experts in their respective fields.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Much research over the past 30 to 40 years has shown that the inflammatory response, while critical for host defense during microbial infection, may itself play a central role in the pathogenesis of sepsis. Although key mediators responsible for this injury have been identified, efforts clinically to augment our conventional antimicrobial and supportive therapies during sepsis with agents modulating the inflammatory response have been unsuccessful. As a result, the mortality associated with this lethal syndrome, especially when complicated by shock, has remained persistently high. Unfortunately, during this same period of time, the incidence of sepsis has accelerated as other fields of medicine have relied increasingly on therapies that predispose to infection. While frustrating, overall this experience in the field of sepsis has not been without value. Most importantly, it has helped define on several different levels the complexity of the septic patient. Recognizing and addressing this complexity as discussed by each of the contributors to Evolving Concepts in Sepsis and Septic Shock may now provide new inroads into the treatment of sepsis.