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This volume provides the academic and industrial community with a medium for presenting original research and applications related to information a...

This volume presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Theorem Provers in Circuit Design (TPCD '94) jointly organized by th...

This, the 4th Transactions on Computational Systems Biology volume, contains carefully selected and enhanced contributions presented at the first C...

Intercellular communication in plants plays pivotal roles in coordination and control of development and defence responses and involves the traffic...

Meshfree methods for the solution of partial differential equations gained much attention in recent years, not only in the engineering but also in ...

A self-contained treatment of theoretically and practically important efficient algorithms for the primality problem. The text covers the randomize...

This book offers insight into international trade and foreign direct investment competitiveness in Africa. It examines two policies frequently used...

Das Buch Semantic Web Grundlagen vermittelt als erstes deutschsprachiges Lehrbuch die Grundlagen des Semantic Web in verstandlicher Weise. Es ermog...

In this book, different quantitative approaches to the study of electoral systems have been developed: game-theoretic, decision-theoretic, statisti...

Product Description This book presents the fundamental concepts of fuzzy logic and fuzzy control, chaos theory and chaos control. It also provides...

Induced by globalization and shareholder value orientation, there is in the chemical industry an increasing demand for value creation. Edited and w...

The protection mode of most available vaccines is based on antibody responses. Since efficient immune responses to many pathogens rely on activatin...

This second edition of "The Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine" covers the molecular and cellular basis of life, disease...

The use of Epo in medical practice is increasing constantly. It has revolutionized how we think of blood transfusion in medicine and surgery. Moreo...

Computational methods are transforming the work of chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories. Increasingly faster and more exact simulation algorith...

This first book to cover neural development, neuronal survival and function on the genetic level outlines promising approaches for novel therapeuti...

Polymer science and technology occupy a central position among potential growth areas in the greater African region (Africa and Indian Ocean Island...

This two volume handbook is unique in spanning the entire field of evolution, from the origins of life up to the formation of social structures and...

Two exciting worlds of science and technology - the nano and micro dimensions. The former is a booming new field of research, the latter the establ...

This volume contains the contributions of the 1st French Brazilian Symposium on "Advanced Polymeric Materials", held at Florianopolis, Brazil, on A...

With its assessment and linking of study reports into a coherent narrative, this book accurately describes the technological and economic opportuni...

On the cutting edge of medical diagnostics, plasma proteomics promises to generate a new wave of technologies to help identify many different disea...

Many physicists are not aware of the fact that they can solve their problems by applying optimization algorithms. Since the number of such algorith...

Professor Skripov obtained worldwide recognition with his monograph "Metastable liquids", published in English by Wiley and Sons. Based upon this w...

The goal of visualization is the accurate, interactive, and intuitive presentation of data. Complex numerical simulations, high-resolution imaging ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Techno...

The LNCS Journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techn...

This book could have been entitled "Analysis and Geometry." The authors are addressing the following issue: Is it possible to perform some harmonic...

This book presents an enterprise modeling language that allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. It also details techn...

Capturing the state of the art of the interplay between partial differential equations, functional analysis, maximal regularity, and probability th...

Product Description In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can ...

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604-1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed s...

Sasha Waltz is a pioneer of the so-called "turn to the installation". She is expanding the field of the installation to include actions and people....

Discover the captivating world of art and creativity with this stunning book that invites you to explore the depths of human expression. Perfect fo...

In 1955, Mercedes-Benz wins the sports car world championship with the racing car 300 SLR (W 196 S). In addition to the titles achieved that same y...

In his singular paintings, Niklaus Manuel Gudel (*1988 in Delemont, Switzerland) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject. The people or anim...

For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest...

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" ...

Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri...

The Swiss artist Christoph Hansli (*1963) gained international recognition a few years ago for his epic work, Mortadella (2006-08), a series of 332...

The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns ...

Sigmund Freud himself was certainly aware of the significance of psychoanalysis when he founded it: he saw it on the same level as the Copernican r...

Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn't know about? How is climate change making itself ...

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. Du...

The publication presents Joan Miro's (1893- 1983) mural art in the context of his life's work. Miro's ideas for large-scale mural art can be traced...

Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic. She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who e...

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic...

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identityand longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topi...