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With regard to global climate changes, one of our future challenges will be to develop crop plants that cope better with changing environmental conditions. Abiotic stress is estimated to be the primary cause of crop loss worldwide, with the potential to cause a reduction...

This book, unlike other books, provides readers with a practical yet sophisticated grasp of the macroeconomic principles necessary to understand a monetary union. By definition, a monetary union is a group of countries that share a common currency. The most important case in point...

The authors of this book have put together the first reference on all aspects of testing and validating service-oriented architectures, taking into account inherent intricacies. The contributions by leading academic and industrial research groups are structured into four parts on: static analysis to acquire...

This wide-ranging book provides a broad and unique canvas on complexity and complexity science at an advanced but non-technical level. The book skillfully combines elements from the history and philosophy of sciences with modern problem solving approaches to the ever growing list of systems...

Natural and anthropogenic disasters have caused a large number of victims and significant social and economic losses in the last few years. There is no doubt that the risk prevention and disaster management sector needs drastic measures and improvements in order to decrease damage...

Overall recent research on TLRs has led to tremendous increase in our understanding of early steps in pathogen recognition and will presumably lead to potent TLR targeting therapeutics in the future. This book reviews and highlights our recent understanding on the function and ligands...

Intelligence is wasted on problems that themselves have been caused by an excess of intelligence. Lean Brain Management strives toward uncompromising Lean Brain Quality. Lean Brain stands for consistent economization of intelligence in all realms of life: Intelligent systems will only be operated by...

Teaching and learning paradigms have attracted increased attention in the last few years. Improved access to high speed Internet services and the massive increase in popularity of the Internet have paved the way for alternative but effective approaches in teaching and learning. This book...

The Handbook of Financial Time Series provides an up-to-date overview of the field and covers all relevant topics, both from a statistical and an econometrical point of view. Experts present, among others various aspects, the important GARCH and Stochastic Volatility classes, like for example...

When the ?rst watermarking papers appeared in mid 90ies, the industrial needs on copyright protection and rights management of digital media were already pressing. The music industry was already loosing large revenues due to music piracy. Watermarking was proposed as a very promising solution...

Providing the reader with an introduction to state-of the-art concepts and methods in the rapidly advancing field of protein engineering, this book will be of use to anyone interested in the study of proteins, in academia as well as in industry.Author: Caroline KoehrerISBN-10: 3540709371ISBN-13:...

Interpolation of functions is one of the basic part of Approximation Theory. There are many books on approximation theory, including interpolation methods that - peared in the last fty years, but a few of them are devoted only to interpolation processes. An example is...

The European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) is a series of conferences held every two years to provide a forum for discussion on recent aspects of numerical mathematics and their applications. The ?rst ENUMATH conference was held in Paris (1995), and...

As other industries, the global travel and tourism industry has been facing - mense challenges and highly visible upheaval since the beginning of the new m- lennium. The International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin, the world's leading travel trade fair, aims at pinpointing the most...

This book is comprised of thirty-two papers presented at the prestigious 2006 Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. The papers span a wide variety of topics all related to the algorithmic problems of robotic systems.Author: Srinivas AkellaISBN-10: 3540684042ISBN-13: 9783540684046Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2008Pages: 526Format:...

In their analysis of experiments and in their planning of syntheses, organic chemistsconsciouslyorunconsciouslytendtousetheprincipleofleastmotion, thechemicalequivalentofOccam'srazor. Inrearrangementreactionsthispr- ciple is violated and may make rearrangements problematic reactions. At the sametime, thereisalwaysfascinationintheunexpectedandsorearrangement reactionsarealsoanattractive?eldofstudy. Consequently, ourunderstanding of rearrangement reactions is now quite advanced and allows strategic uses in organic...

1 Introduction.- 2 Global Warming.- 3 The Kyoto Protocol's Flexible Mechanisms.- 4 Institutional Issues.- 5 Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide.- 6 Clean Development Mechanism Project Prospects.- 7 Project Parameters and Equitable Treatment.- 8 CO2 Reduction Technologies and Financial Analysis.- 9 Emissions Trading.- Conclusions.- Appendices.-...

This is one of two volumes covering the latest developments in the field of purinergic and pyrimidinergic transmission, going into the roles of those signaling systems in tissue function and pathophysiology and advances in developing potential new medications based on the modulation of P1...

Low dielectric materials are an important component of microelectronic devices. In this carefully edited volume the leading researchers give an introduction to and a survey of the various fields of dielectrics for IC integration. The book appeals to materials reserachers, electrical engineers and advanced...

When multiple agents are in a shared environment, there usually exist con- straints among the possible actions of these agents. A distributed constraint satisfaction problem (distributed CSP) is a problem in which the goal is to find a consistent combination of actions that satisfies...

Corepressors are newly discovered assemblies of proteins that play essential roles in eukaryotic gene regulation. Recent discoveries about corepressors have provided new insights into the molecular basis of gene regulation, and have established surprising connections between the mechanisms of action of a wide variety...

Globalization and unemployment are two phenomena which are amongst the most widely discussed subjects in the economic debate today. Often, globalization is regarded as being responsible for the increase in unemployment, particularly in unskilled labor. This book deals with the correlation between globalization and...

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Typically they suggest that something is wrong with the way in- dividual opinions are being expressed or processed in voting. The outcomes are bizarre, unfair or otherwise implausible, given the expressed opinions of voters. Voting paradoxes...

It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I initially saw when I was 8 years of age, provided me with my first glimpse...

In this volume of Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology there a contributions by M.D. Swope, E. Lolis, F.Hofmann, L. Lacinova, N. Klugbauer, M. Hermann, P. Berger, S.S. Shen, J.S. Kim, M.E. Weksler, M. Hirsch-Kauffmann and M.Schweiger.Author: M. P. Blaustein,R. Greger,H. GrunickeISBN-10: 3540656944ISBN-13: 9783540656944Publisher:...

Jorg Bensinger, a group head of Audi corporation's R&D depart- ment, had been waiting for long to find a chance to advertise his idea of a four-wheel drive for passenger cars to one of the board mem- bers. Favorable experiences had been collected in...

The book addresses the important topic of the reliability and failure behaviour of the ceramic materials widely used as construction components. Microscopic theories are presented to describe the observed phenomena and guidance is given in the choice of materials for particular applications.Author: Dietrich Munz,Theo...

Scientific knowledge and practical advice are combined in this book. Leading scientists present their latest research results in the area of product and price bundling, with respect to optimization as well as to behavioral bundling approaches. In addition the reader will learn how to...

Over the last few years it has become apparent that fluid turbulence shares many common features with plasma turbulence, such as coherent structures and self-organization phenomena, passive scalar transport and anomalous diffusion. This book gathers very high level, current papers on these subjects. It...

In the last few years a large repetoire of methods for the activation of unreactive organic functionalities and for their use in organic synthesis has been developed. In this volume, areas ranging from the activation of C-H bonds to the chemical transformation of dinitrogen...

This book can be considered as a standard textbook for anyone interested in dispersion theory and practical data analysis in optics and related fields. It is devoted to dispersion theory in linear and nonlinear optics.Author: Kai-Erik Peiponen,Erik M. Vartiainen,Toshimitsu AsakuraISBN-10: 3540645225ISBN-13: 9783540645221Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Carbon Rich Compounds are defined here as carbon skeletons with a carbon to hydrogen ratio of 1: (=Author: Armin de MeijereISBN-10: 3540641106ISBN-13: 9783540641100Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/1998Pages: 231Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

The book deals with the computerized modeling of sedimentary systems.Author: Jan HarffISBN-10: 3540641092ISBN-13: 9783540641094Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/1998Pages: 452Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.84lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology focuses on the role of discourse in cognition, tools as constituents of cognitive activity, the social nature of reasoning, and how individuals reconstitute knowledge in social interaction.Author: Lauren B. ResnickISBN-10: 3540635114ISBN-13: 9783540635116Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "diversity of species", is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized. Today we know that "biological diversity is a global asset of incalculable value to present...

This volume focuses on the human exposures and medical effects studies in the SemipaiatinskJ Altai region of Siberia that were a consequence of the radioactive fallout from nuclear test explosions that took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site of the former Soviet Union. It...

This volume contains the written versions of the lectures given at the 26th course of the renowned Saas-Fee series. The book represents a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field of galaxy interaction. Nowadays, galaxies are no longer seen as immutable objects: they evolve,...

Following the rapid developments in the UV-B measurement techniques and the rapidly growing research in the field in the late 80's and early 90's, we organized a large gathering of distinguished experts in a NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Halkidiki, Greece on October,...

Cuts and metrics are well-known objects that arise - independently, but with many deep and fascinating connections - in diverse fields: in graph theory, combinatorial optimization, geometry of numbers, combinatorial matrix theory, statistical physics, VLSI design etc. This book presents a wealth of results,...

For some time it has been generally known that elevated ozone concentrations in the air are injurious to human health, but ozone is also toxic to plants. The book presents new insights into its role in forest decline.Author: Heinrich SandermannISBN-10: 3540613218ISBN-13: 9783540613213Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book publishes the English translation of texts that appeared first in Gennan in two separate booklets. Part One, The Ethics of Capitalism includ- ing the comment by JAMES M. BUCHANAN, has been published in Gennan under the title Ethik des Kapitalismus, Ttibingen (J.C.B....

This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology addresses the gap between the mathematics taught to engineering students and the mathematics used by engineers in practice.Author: Yasar ErsoyISBN-10: 3540580107ISBN-13: 9783540580102Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/1994Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Interactive learning technology holds great promise for improving the education of deaf children. This book in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology is based on a multidisciplinary workshop and presents contributions by experts on the fields of deaf education and interactive learning...

Peatlands (or mires) cover at least 550 million ha globally, of which the greater part is situated between 50 and 70 N. Although the majority of peatlands are not used for human needs, there are large areas where agriculture, peat or wood production has...

This book, entitled Electrochemistry of Glasses and Glass Melts - Including Glass Electrodes, is one of a series reporting on research and development activities on products and processes conducted by the Schott Group. The scientifically founded development of new products and technical pro- cesses...

In the past there were many attempts to change natural foodstuffs into high-value products. Cheese, bread, wine, and beer were pro- duced, traditionally using microorganisms as biological tools. Later, people influenced the natural process of evolution by artificial selection. In the 19th century, observations...

This book is about the design and use of advanced interactive multimedia interfaces for learning. The focus is on active human interaction and the use of the interfaces as tools to facilitate human learning. The book is based on a NATO ARW and presents...

The intent of this book is to report on the electrical, optical, and structural properties of silver and gold films in dependence on substrate material, annealing treatment, and gas adsorption. A main point is the calculation of the scattering cross section of the conduction...

The general theme of the 10th International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conf- ence, held during June 9th-12th, 2004 at Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, was the exploration of the dynamics of industries driven by the highly interrelated processes of innovation and of structural transformation. The...

This volume contains seven lectures covering a wide range in the theoretical foundations of programming. They give an up-to-date account of the semantic models and related tools developed to allow a rigorous discussion of the construction of correct programs.Author: Erich J. NeuholdISBN-10: 3540539611ISBN-13: 9783540539612Publisher:...