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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - There have been major changes in the heat content and ice cover of the Arctic Ocean since 1990. Year after year, this observational evidence underscores the likelihood that predictions of global climatic effects will turn out to be true. Changes in the freshwater flow from the Arctic Ocean may hav…e very significant consequences for humanity, including those alive today. It is vital that we develop the capability to predict the magnitude of such effects with far greater certainty, as well as the probability of their occurrence within a giver time frame. To do so, we need the internationally organised commitment of scientific labour and funding. This book has been written by many of the world's most knowledgable polar oceanographers, meteorologists and hydrologists, takes full account of the latest results and discusses their significance. It draws together assessments by many specialists to present an integrated view of possible future changes in the climate of the Northern hemisphere.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Financial systems around the world are undergoing a process of modernization due to many different forces. Advances in information technology, product and market innovations, and recent regional financial crises have contributed to this movement. As a result, evolution in the financial sector is l…eading to larger, more complex financial organizations that render inadequate the supervisory and regulatory structures currently in place. While some changes in regulatory policies have already occurred, the adaptation of supervisory oversight and regulation in the face of these new developments is expected to continue for many years to come. This book collects papers originally presented in September 1998 at the Financial Modernization and Regulation Conference co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and San Francisco. Revised before publication, the papers seek to identify the reasons for changes in the financial services sector, and the implications these changes pose for financial supervision and regulation. Taken together, the papers offer valuable insights on 1) the forces behind financial modernization; 2) the implications financial modernization poses for corporate structure, market discipline, and financial regulation; 3) how to price deposit insurance accurately to reflect banks' risk-taking; and 4) balancing private versus public interests and managing potentially conflicting public policy goals.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The largest workshop ever held has produced the most comprehensive review of Radio Frequency Dosimetry and Bioeffects available. Over 80 of the world's leading scientists and technical experts from nine NATO countries and six NATO Partner for Peace countries, and others, review the state of the ar…t in radio frequency radiation dosimetry, measurements and the relationship between SAR, power density and the biological effects of the electromagnetic fields.
Systems Engineering for Business Process Change : Collected Papers from the EPSRC Research Programme
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Business Processes, Legacy Systems and a Flexible Future (Peter Henderson).- Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems (Brian Warboys, Mark Greenwood and Peter Kawalek).- Complexity: Partial Support for BPR (Eve Mitleton-Kelly).- FLEXX: Designing Software for Change through E…volvable Architectures (Stephen Rank, Keith Bennett, Steven Glover).- RIPPLE: Retaining Integrity in Process Products over their Long-Term Evolution (Dave Bustard).- Understanding Change: Using the Patterns Paradigm in the Context of Business Domain Knowledge (Nadia Amin, Pat Hall, Matthew Hinton).- Combining Organisational and Technical Change in Finding Solutions to Legacy Systems (Magnus Ramage, Carole Brooke, Keith Bennett and Malcolm Munro).- Connecting Business Modelling to Requirements Engineering (Alistair Sutcliffe and G. Li).- Interpretivist Modelling for Information System Definition (Frank Stowell and D. Champion).- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Impacts and Future Directions (Ben Light and Chris Holland).- The Implications of Information Technology Infrastructure Capabilities for Business Process Change Success (Julie Eatock, George Giaglis, Ray Paul and Alan Serrano).- IT Support for the Very High Value Added Bid Pricing Process (Madan Singh, Nathalie Cassaigne, Paul Bussey and Vicky Papaioannou).- Social Viewpoints on Legacy Systems (Tim Rodden, Mark Rouncefield, Ian Sommerville and Stephen Viller).- Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy (Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Maria-Christiana Papaefthimiou).- Modelling Legacy Telecommunications: Switching Systems for Interaction Analysis (Muffy Calder and Stephan Reiff).- Reverse Requirements Engineering: The AMBOLS Approach (Albert Alderson and Kecheng Liu).- Reconstruction of Legacy Systems for Evolutionary Change (Elizabeth Burd, Malcolm Munro and Peter Young).- Handling Legacy IT in Banking by using Object Design Patterns to Separate Business and IT Issues (John Edwards, Ian Coutts, Stuart McLeod and Tim Millea).- Legacy System Anti-Patterns and a Pattern-Oriented Migration Response (Anthony Lauder and Stuart Kent).- Assisting Requirements Recovery from Legacy Documents (Paul Rayson, Roger Garside and Pete Sawyer).- The Systematic Construction of Information Systems (Antonio Cau and Hussein Zedan).- Its Not Just About Old Software: A Wider View of Legacy Systems (Magnus Ramage and Malcolm Munro).- Delivering Business Performance: Opportunities and Challenges for IT (Rachel Harrison, M. Wells, P. Brerton, P. Dunning-Lewis, G. Fitzgerald and D. Targett).
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - From the perspective of the investigator, Graves' disease is a fascinating disorder with unique features and opportunities for study. The discovery in 1956 that Graves' disease was caused by a humoral factor, later shown to be an antibody to the TSH receptor, was a triumph for modern investigative… medicine. Rapid progress is now being made in (i) understanding the molecular interaction between autoantibodies and the TSH receptor, (ii) identifying the genes that contribute to the predisposition to disease, (iii) developing an animal model of Graves' disease, and (iv) identifying the long-sought orbital antigen in ophthalmopathy. From the clinical standpoint, although Graves' disease is eminently treatable, there is no definitive cure. None of the therapeutic options are ideal. It is hoped that rapid progress in understanding the pathogenesis of the disease will lead to the ultimate goal of some form of immunotherapy that will make antithyroid drugs, radioiodine and thyroidectomy obsolete. The chapters in Graves' Disease: Pathogenesis and Treatment represent the viewpoints of many prominent clinicians and investigators working in the field. The editors are grateful for their contributions which cover an unusually comprehensive compendium of subjects relating to the disease.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This timely publication fills a large gap in the ophthalmic literature which has so far lacked a monograph on the clinically very important subject of macular edema. The book presents the most up-to-date scientific concepts concerning the etiology and pathogenesis of blood retinal barrier breakdow…n such as tight junction associated protein dysfunction, and changes in fluid transport properties of the retinal pigment epithelium. The bulk of the book is clinically oriented and addresses novel imaging and diagnostic techniques for the detection of macular edema as well as the clinical context of a panoply of ocular diseases which induce macular edema, such as diabetes, other vasculopathies, uveitis, and many others. New light is shed on the association between highly active antiretroviral therapy and the induction of macular edema in HIV-positive patients. Novel drug treatment regimens with steroids and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors as well as new ways of applying laser and surgical therapies are also discussed in detail, and practical treatment guidelines are given. This book will be helpful for vitreoretinal specialists as well as for the practising ophthalmologist confronted with patients suffering from macular edema.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education. Had Fillmore lived throughout UB's first seventy years, he would probably have been elated by the success of his university, and he should have b…een satisfied and pleased that UB remained intrinsically bonded to its community while at the same time engrafting the values and standards important to higher education's mission in the region. UB and its medical school have undergone many challenging transitions since 1846. Included among them were: (1) the completion of an academic campus in the far northeast comer of the City of Buffalo while leaving its medical, dental and law schools firmly situated in the core of downtown Buffalo; (2) the eventual relocation, after the second world war, of the law school to the newer campus in Amherst, and the medical and dental school to the original academic campus: and (3) the merger with the State University of New York System in 1962. Despite these significant transitions, any one of which could have changed the intrinsic integrity of UB and disrupted the bonding between community and university, that did not happen. To this day, the ties between community and academe persist. Fillmore and White should celebrate their success and important contribution to Buffalo and Western New York.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The discovery of the human T cell leukemia virus type I in the late 1970s heralded a new era in retrovirology. For the first time, it was demonstrated that a retrovirus could play a role in the development of a human disease, in this case adult T cell leukemia (ATL). Several years later, the acqui…red immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic began, and it was dem- strated that a retrovirus, originally designated the human T cell lymp- tropic virus type 3, was the causal agent of this syndrome. This virus, later named the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), has since been extensively studied in terms of its pathogenesis as well as its ability to elicit immune responses. In that time, a tremendous amount of information has been obtained about the virus. Although recent drug regimens have been useful in significantly lowering viral loads and perhaps maintaining an asymptomatic state among individuals infected with HIV-1, an established 'cure' for AIDS eludes us. In addition, the effective drug therapies are very expensive, and are not available to infected people in the third world, where greater than 90% of new infections occur. Furthermore, the development of viral resistance against the drug therapies is an additional concern. Despite extensive study, no effective vaccine has been developed. One of the problems in developing an effective vaccine against HIV-1 is the ability of the virus, particularly in the immunogenic envelop glycoprotein, to undergo amino acid hypervariability.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - While this book presents the results of comprehensive and cooperative international reseirch, this effort would not have been successful without the assistance of various institutions and personalities. Financial support for the conference was received from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, and…the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which is gratefully acknowledged. The Deutsche Ralffeisenverband kindly contributed to hosting the international group of researchers in Bonn. For their valuable comments we also thank: Uwe Eiteljorge, Johannes Jutting, Amim Kuhn, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Matin Qaim, Alexandra Schleier, Ludwig Striewe, Jllrgen Wandel, Peter Weingarten, Manfred Wiebelt and Susanna Wolf. The editors also acknowledge the help provided by James Creed, Karin Clark, and Ulla Knodt in checking language and style of the articles, most of them written by non-native speakers. Martin Grub, Tina Klebsch, and Andrea Stang have been helpful in providing technical assistance needed to prepare the manuscript. Bonn Peter Wehrheim Eugenia V. Serova Moscow Halle/Saale Klaus Frohberg Bonn Joachim von Braun January 2000 x Russia's Agro-food Sector: Towards Truly Functioning Markets Wehrheim, P., E. V. Serova, K. Frohberg, and J. von Braun (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1 - 8 SECTION 1 Introduction and Overview Peter Wehrheim, Eugenia V. Serova, Klaus Frohberg, and Joachim von Braun 1. INTRODUCTION This publication takes a close look at the agro-food economy in Russia.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In dieser kurzgefaßten Anleitung werden die klinisch relevanten EKG-Veränderungen übersichtlich und praxisbezogen dargestellt. Anhand plausibler 'Grundregeln' wird am Beispiel vieler Original-EKG-Registrierungen exemplarisch der Weg zur richtigen elektrokardiographischen Diagnose gewiesen.…Tabellarische Übersichten mit Leitliniencharakter erleichtern die Befundinterpretation. Knappe stichwortartige Texte bringen die EKG-Befunde auf den Punkt. Das Buch empfiehlt sich für alle im Not- und Nachtdienst mit akuten EKG-Befunden konfrontierten Ärzte. Es ist zudem ein hilfreicher Leitfaden für Studenten im praktischen Jahr, Ärzte im Praktikum sowie Assistenzärzte der inneren Medizin und angrenzender Fachgebiete.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scattering theory is, roughly speaking, perturbation theory of self-adjoint operators on the (absolutely) continuous spectrum. It has its origin in mathematical problems of quantum mechanics and is intimately related to the theory o…f partial differential equations. Some recently solved problems, such as asymptotic completeness for the Schrödinger operator with long-range and multiparticle potentials, as well as open problems, are discussed. We construct also potentials for which asymptotic completeness is violated. This corresponds to a new class of asymptotic solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. Special attention is paid to the properties of the scattering matrix, which is the main observable of the theory. The book is addressed to readers interested in a deeper study of the subject. 192 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book systematically develops the nonlinear potential theory connected with the weighted Sobolev space Wm,pw( ), where the weight usually belongs to Muckenhoupt's class of Ap weights. These spaces occur as solutions spaces for d…egenerate elliptic partial differential equations. The Sobolev space theory covers results concerning approximation, extension, and interpolation, Sobolev and Poincare inequalities, Maz'ya type embedding theorems, and isoperimetric inequalities. In the chapter devoted to potential theory, several weighted capacities are investigated. Moreover, 'Kellogg lemmas' are established for various concepts of thinness. Applications of potential theory to weighted Sobolev spaces include quasi continuity of Sobolev functions, Poincare inequalities, and spectral synthesis theorems. 196 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As this Preface is being written, the twentieth century is coming to an end. Historians may perhaps come to refer to it as the century of information, just as its predecessor is associated with the process of industrialisation. Succ…essive technological developments such as the telephone, radio, television, computers and the Internet have had profound effects on the way we live. We can see pic tures of the surface of Mars or the early shape of the Universe. The contents of a whole shelf-load of library books can be compressed onto an almost weight less piece of plastic. Billions of people can watch the same football match, or can keep in instant touch with friends around the world without leaving home. In short, massive amounts of information can now be stored, transmitted and processed, with surprising speed, accuracy and economy. Of course, these developments do not happen without some theoretical ba sis, and as is so often the case, much of this is provided by mathematics. Many of the first mathematical advances in this area were made in the mid-twentieth century by engineers, often relying on intuition and experience rather than a deep theoretical knowledge to lead them to their discoveries. Soon the math ematicians, delighted to see new applications for their subject, joined in and developed the engineers' practical examples into wide-ranging theories, com plete with definitions, theorems and proofs. 228 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this important text, Malcolm Payne shows how team members in care services can use networking and teambuilding to strengthen their practice by being open to work with wider networks of agencies, professionals and service users. H…e brings traditional team development up-to-date, including perspectives from research, from management ideas and from professional writings. Each chapter contains a concise account of new ideas in teamwork, practical guidance on teambuilding and teambuilding activities for team members. 288 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This fascinating and thought-provoking book provides much-needed philosophical background for counsellors, therapists and healthcare workers looking for broader, deeper foundations in the struggle to help and make sense of others. W…hile examining the best among twentieth-century philosophy it shows the wealth of inspiration of earlier centuries, and demonstrates with remarkable clarity the way in which the ideas of, and the relations between, these philosophers can inspire, inform and underpin much of counselling and psychotherapy.The author ties the philosophies with practice in a pragmatic and exercise-based way, making it an excellent source for training courses. Each chapter is headed with 'key points' and their application to counselling and psychotherapy, and ends with practical questions, exercises and a detailed bibliography, including extensive listing of relevant websites. Englisch.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a unique opportunity to understand the essence of one of the great thinkers of western civilization. A guided reading of Euclid's Elements leads to a critical discussion and rigorous modern treatment of Euclid's geometry a…nd its more recent descendants, with complete proofs. Topics include the introduction of coordinates, the theory of area, history of the parallel postulate, the various non-Euclidean geometries, and the regular and semi-regular polyhedra. 544 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While conducting research on intellectual and neuropsychological perfonnance of various patient populations across time, we became aware of the lack of information concerning practice effects associated with many widely used assessm…ent instruments. Although test-retest data were available for almost all of these instruments, it typically came in the form of correlation coefficients and mean changes in performance between assessments was often absent. In a 1995 article (McCaffrey & Westervelt, 1995), we discussed a number of issues relevant to serial neuropsychological and intellectual assessment and concluded that clinical neuropsychological practitioners had few guidelines to assist them in interpreting change in a patient's performance across assessments. This volume represents our efforts at reviewing the literature between 1970 and 1998 and extracting the reported information on practice effects. The tables include the assessment instrument used, information on the subject/patient groups, the sample size fu}, gender, age, intervention, interval between the assessments, scores at both assessment points, and the citation. The tables reflect the existing published literature within intellectual assessment and, therefore, some instruments (e.g., Wechsler tests) comprise a majority of the tables whereas others (e.g., Raven's Progressive Matrices, Stanford-Binet) do not. The test index is arranged by the name of the test as reported in the specific article. We caution readers to refer to the original articles if additional or more specific information is needed. 292 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For the past 25 years the CADE conference has been the major forum for the presentation of new results in automated deduction. This volume contains the papers and system descriptions selected for the 17th International Conference on… Automated Deduction, CADE-17, held June 17-20, 2000,at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). Fifty-three research papers and twenty system descriptions were submitted by researchers from fteen countries. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers. Twenty-four research papers and fteen system descriptions were accepted. The accepted papers cover a variety of topics related to t- orem proving and its applications such as proof carrying code, cryptographic protocol veri cation, model checking, cooperating decision procedures, program veri cation, and resolution theorem proving. The program also included three invited lectures: 'High-level veri cation using theorem proving and formalized mathematics' by John Harrison, 'Sc- able Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems' by Henry Kautz, and 'Connecting Bits with Floating-Point Numbers: Model Checking and Theorem Proving in Practice' by Carl Seger. Abstracts or full papers of these talks are included in this volume.In addition to the accepted papers, system descriptions, andinvited talks, this volumecontains one page summaries of four tutorials and ve workshops held in conjunction with CADE-17. 540 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This interdisciplinary book provides a compendium of projects, plus numerous example programs for readers to study and explore. Designed for advanced undergraduates or graduates of science, mathematics and engineering who will deal…with scientific computation in their future studies and research, it also contains new and useful reference materials for researchers. The problem sets range from the tutorial to exploratory and, at times, to 'the impossible'. The projects were collected from research results and computational dilemmas during the author's tenure as Chief Scientist at NeXT Computer, and from his lectures at Reed College. The content assumes familiarity with such college topics as calculus, differential equations, and at least elementary programming. Each project focuses on computation, theory, graphics, or a combination of these, an d is designed with an estimated level of difficulty. The support code for each takes the form of either C or Mathematica, and is included in the appendix and on the bundled diskette. The algorithms are clearly laid out within the projects, such that the book may be used with other symbolic numerical and algebraic manipulation products.System requirements:Any NEXTSTEP computer running Mathematica 2.0 or higher is recommended to fully utilize disk contents. The diskette is also compatible with DOS, Windows, Macintosh and most UNIX computer systems (especially C language and Mathematica). 500 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers contained in this volumewere presented at the 11thAnnual Sym- sium on CombinatorialPattern Matching, held June 21-23, 2000 at the Univ- sit edeMontr eal. They were selected from 44 abstracts submitted in response to the c…all for papers. In addition, there were invited lectures by Andrei Broder (AltaVista), Fernando Pereira (AT&T Research Labs), and Ian H. Witten (U- versity of Waikato). The symposium was preceded by a two-day summer school set up to - tract and train young researchers. The lecturers at the school were Greg Butler, ClementLam,andGusGrahne:BLAST!Howdoyousearchsequencedatabases , DavidBryant:Phylogeny,Ra aeleGiancarlo: Algorithmicaspectsof speech rec- nition, Nadia El-Mabrouk: Genome rearrangement,LaxmiParida: Flexib- pattern discovery, and Ian H. Witten: Adaptive text mining: inferring structure from sequences. Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) addresses issues of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expr- sions graphs, point sets, and arrays. The goal is to derive non-trivial combi- torial properties of such structures and to exploit these properties in order to achieve superior performance for the corresponding computational problems. Over recent years a steady ow of high-quality research on this subject has changed a sparse set of isolated results into a fully- edged area of algorithmics. 440 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Many theoretical and experimental studies have shown that a multiple classi er system is an e ective technique for reducing prediction errors [9,10,11,20,19]. These studies identify mainly three elements that characterize a set of c…l- si ers: Therepresentationoftheinput(whateachindividualclassi erreceivesby wayofinput). Thearchitectureoftheindividualclassi ers(algorithmsandparametri- tion). The way to cause these classi ers to take a decision together. Itcanbeassumedthatacombinationmethodise cientifeachindividualcl- si ermakeserrors inadi erentway ,sothatitcanbeexpectedthatmostofthe classi ers can correct the mistakes that an individual one does [1,19]. The term weak classi ers refers to classi ers whose capacity has been reduced in some way so as to increase their prediction diversity. Either their internal architecture issimple(e.g.,theyusemono-layerperceptronsinsteadofmoresophisticated neural networks), or they are prevented from using all the information available. Sinceeachclassi erseesdi erentsectionsofthelearningset,theerrorcorre- tion among them is reduced. It has been shown that the majority vote is the beststrategyiftheerrorsamongtheclassi ersarenotcorrelated.Moreover, in real applications, the majority vote also appears to be as e cient as more sophisticated decision rules [2,13]. Onemethodofgeneratingadiversesetofclassi ersistoupsetsomeaspect ofthetraininginputofwhichtheclassi erisrather unstable. In the present paper,westudytwodistinctwaystocreatesuchweakenedclassi ers;i.e.learning set resampling (using the Bagging approach [5]), and random feature subset selection (using MFS , a Multiple Feature Subsets approach [3]). Other recent and similar techniques are not discussed here but are also based on modi cations to the training and/or the feature set [7,8,12,21]. 424 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ACISP 2000, the Fifth Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, was held in Brisbane, Australia, 10 12 July, 2000. The conference was sponsored by the Information Security Research Centre at Queensland Univ- sity…of Technology, the Australian Computer Society, Telstra, Boeing Australia Limited, SecureGate Limited, and RSA Security Pty Ltd. We are grateful to all these organizations for their support of the conference. The conference brought together researchers, designers, implementors, and users of information security systems. The aim of the conference is to have a series of technical refereed and invited papers to discuss all di erent aspects of information security. The program committee invited seven distinguished sp- kers: Mike Burmester, G. R. Blakley, Bob Blakley, Brian Denehy, Roger Lyle, John Snare, and Alan Underwood. Mike Burmester from Royal Holloway C- lege,UniversityofLondonpresentedapaperentitled ASurveyofKeyDistri- tion ; G. R. Blakley from Texas A&M University and Bob Blakley from the IBM Tivoli Security Business Unit presented a paper entitled All Sail, No Anchor, I: Cryptography, Risk, and e-Commerce ; Brian Denehy from SecureGate Limited presented a paper entitled Secure Networks or Network Security Approaches toBoth ;RogerLylefromStandardsAustraliaandJohnSnarefromTelstrap- sented a paper entitled Perspectives on Australia s New Information Security Management Standard ; and Alan Underwood from the Australian Computer Societypresentedapaperentitled ProfessionalEthicsinaSecurityandPrivacy Context The Perspective of a National Computing Society . There were 81 technical papers submitted to the conference from an int- national authorship. These papers were refereed by the program committee and 37 papers were accepted for the conference. 504 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS There is no doubt that the content of this EAES Consensus Development Conferences (CDC's) booklet represents an extremely important contribution to answering the following questions: which area of endoscopic sur…gery requires quality assurance what methodology should be employed what further action is required In order to try to answer these questions, the Executive Office of the EAES decided to appoint an 'ad hoc' working group which started its activity in 1993. Under the Presidency of Professor Hans Troidl and the scientific mandate of Professor Edmund Neugebauer the Consensus Development Conferences appea red as one of the essential educational programmes of the EAES. These were orga nized thanks to the scientific and secretarial assistance of the 2nd Department of Surgery, University of Cologne. Besides the appointed chairperson, each Conference was led by a clinical chairman who included surgical experts from various countries of Europe: J. Perissat, W. Wayand, A. Fingerhut, A. Paul, E. Eypasch, C.K. Kum. Of course the EAES Congress Presidents and the panel members should be ack nowledged for their important input in the Consensus Conferences. From 1994 to 1998 six themes of endoscopic surgery have been assessed and their recommendation were presented and discussed during the European Congresses held in Madrid, Trondheim, Istanbul and in the World Congress Rome 98. 104 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Wildlife researchers and ecologists make widespread use of multivariate statistics in their studies. With its focus on the practical application of the techniques of multivariate statistics, this book shapes the powerful tools of statistic…s for the specific needs of ecologists and makes statistics more applicable to their course of study. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research gives the reader asolid conceptual understanding of the role of multivariate statistics in ecological applications and the relationships among various techniques, while avoiding detailed mathematics and underlying theory. More important, the reader will gain insight into the type of research questions best handled by each technique and the important considerations in applying each one. Whether used as a textbook for specialized courses or as a supplement to general statistics texts, the book emphasizes those techniques that students of ecology and natural resources most need to understand and employ in their research. Detailed examples use real wildlife data sets analyzed using the SAS statistical software program. The book is specifically targeted for upper-division and graduate students in wildlife biology, forestry, and ecology, and for professional wildlife scientists and natural resource managers, but it will be valuable to researchers in any of the biological sciences. 300 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the main papers presented at the International Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2000) held on July 3 7, 2000 in St Andrews, Scotland. This conference succeeded other meetings on the…same topic held in Lautenbach (1992), Marseille (1993), Abingdon (1994), St Goar (1995), Terrasini (1996), Pont-` a-Mousson (1997), Oisterwijk (1998) and Saratoga Springs (1999). Tableaux and related methods, such as Gentzen calculi, are convenient and e ective for automating deduction not just in classical logic but also in various non-standard logics. Examples taken from this meeting alone include temporal, description, non-monotonic, tense, modal, epistemic, fuzzy and intuitionistic - gics. Areas of application include veri cation of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and system diagnosis. The c- ference brought together researchers interested in all aspects theoretical fo- dations, implementation techniques, systems development, experimental com- rison and applications of the automation of reasoning by means of tableaux or related methods. 456 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Wildlife researchers and ecologists make widespread use of multivariate statistics in their studies. With its focus on the practical application of the techniques of multivariate statistics, this book shapes the powerful tools of st…atistics for the specific needs of ecologists and makes statistics more applicable to their course of study. Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research gives the reader a solid conceptual understanding of the role of multivariate statistics in ecological applications and the relationships among various techniques, while avoiding detailed mathematics and underlying theory. More important, the reader will gain insight into the type of research questions best handled by each technique and the important considerations in applying each one. Whether used as a textbook for specialized courses or as a supplement to general statistics texts, the book emphasizes those techniques that students of ecology an d natural resources most need to understand and employ in their research. Detailed examples use real wildlife data sets analyzed using the SAS statistical software program. 300 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) are amachine learning paradigm introduced by John Holland in 1976. They are rule-based systems in which learning is viewed as a process of ongoing adaptation to a partially unknown environment throu…gh genetic algorithms and temporal difference learning. This book provides a unique survey of the current state of the art of LCS and highlights some of the most promising research directions. The first part presents various views of leading people on what learning classifier systems are. The second part is devoted to advanced topics of current interest, including alternative representations, methods for evaluating rule utility, and extensions to existing classifier system models. The final part is dedicated to promising applications in areas like data mining, medical data analysis, economic trading agents, aircraft maneuvering, and autonomous robotics. An appendix comprising 467 entries provides a comprehensive LCS bibliography. 364 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center. At the time, I had inklings that the test results churned out by our laboratori…es were more than scientific facts. As a philosophically unsophisticated young physician, however, I had no language or framework to analyze what I saw as a deep philosophical problem, a problem largely unrecognized by most physicians. The test results provided by our laboratories were accurate and of great practical importance for patient care. However, most of the physicians who relied on our test results to diagnose and treat their patients either did not have the time or interest to consider the philosophical issues inherent in diagnosis, or, like me, had inadequate means to further analyze them. It was more than ten years later that I began doctoral studies in philosophy, and I was fortunate to find a faculty that was supportive of my efforts to address the problem. This book began as my doctoral dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of my mentor, Robert Veatch, Ph. D. Our conversations during my Georgetown years led me in new and often fascinating directions. I would also like to acknowledge the help of Kenneth Schaffner, M. D. , Ph. D. 240 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite new historical study of her contexts, Christina Rossetti continues to haunt the reader as a displaced subjectivity emptied of history. Through an analysis of the posthumous in her work, the construction of 'Christina Rossetti' by h…er brothers, and the history of reception, this study asks how 'speaking with the dead' can avoid critical ventriloquy. The figure of the mother is offered as a paradigm for theorising a new reading that refuses to exorcise the ghost of 'Christina Rossetti'. 213 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -These arethe proceedingsof the Fourth InternationalWorkshopon Cooperative Information Agents, held in Boston Massachusetts, USA, July 7-9, 2000. Cooperative information agent research and development focused originally onaccessingmu…ltiple,heterogeneous,anddistributedinformationsources. Ga- ingaccesstothesesystems,throughInternetsearchengines,applicationprogram interfaces, wrappers, and web-based screens has been an important focus of - operative intelligent agents. Research has also focused on the integration of this information into a coherent model that combined data and knowledge from the multiple sources. Finally, this information is disseminated to a wide audience, giving rise to issues such as data quality, information pedigree, source reliability, information security, personal privacy, and information value. Research in - operative information agents has expanded to include agent negotiation, agent communities, agent mobility, as well as agent collaboration for information d- covery in constrained environments. TheinterdisciplinaryCIAworkshopseriesencompassesa widevarietyoft- ics dealing with cooperative information agents. All workshop proceedings have been published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence, Volumes 1202 (1997), 1435 (1998), and 1652 (1999), respectively. This year, the theme of the CIA workshop was ''The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace', a very tting topic as the use of agents for information gathering, negotiation, correlation, fusion, and dissemination becomes ever more prevalent. We noted a marked trend in CIA 2000 towards addressing issues related to communities of agents that: (1) negotiate for information resources, (2) build robust ontologies to enhance search capabilities, (3) communicate for planning and problem so- ing, (4) learn and evolve based on their experiences, and (5) assume increasing degrees of autonomy in the control of complex systems. 684 pp. Englisch.
