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Steps forward in mathematics often reverberate in other scientific disciplines, and give rise to innovative conceptual developments or find surprising technological applications.

The history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration.

It is the author's aim to give a systematic account of the most im portant ideas, methods and results of the theory of topological vector spaces.

This work grew out of Errett Bishop's fundamental treatise 'Founda tions of Constructive Analysis' (FCA), which appeared in 1967 and which contained the bountiful harvest of a remarkably short period of research by its author.

This volume contains the notes from five lecture courses devoted to nonautonomous differential systems, in which appropriate topological and dynamical techniques were described and applied to a variety of problems.

Human and organizational factors have a substantial impact on the performance of planning and scheduling processes. The text is targeted at researchers and graduate students, but is also particularly useful for managers, consultants, and system developers to better understand how human performance can be advanced.

Lectures: G.E. Sacks: Model theory and applications.- H.J. Keisler: Constructions in model theory.- Seminars: M. Servi: SH formulas and generalized exponential.- J.A. Makowski: Topological model theory.

Rather than focusing on complexity as often discussed in physics or computer science, this book examines more 'human' or socially oriented perspectives on complexity, taking account of the language and communication singularities of human agents in society.

Der Lehrbuch-Klassiker stellt die physikalischen und theoretischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Fluidmechanik dar. Anwendungsbeispiele, die weitgehend auf dem Impulssatz aufbauen, vermitteln ein vertieftes Verständnis, Lösungswege sind ausführlich aufgezeigt. Wegen der großen Nachfrage wurde das Werk in der Reihe ¿Klassiker der Technik" neu aufgelegt. Der Band ist ein einzigartiges, bewährtes Lehrbuch zum Thema und zugleich nützliches Nachschlagewerk für den Praktiker.

The series Structure and Bonding publishes critical reviews on topics of research concerned with chemical structure and bonding.

In this brief, Mary Virginia Orna details the history of color from the chemical point of view. Beginning with the first recorded uses of color and ending in the development of our modern chemical industry, this rich, yet concise exposition shows us how color pervades every aspect of our lives.

Infinite series, and their analogues-integral representations, became funda mental tools in mathematical analysis, starting in the second half of the seven teenth century.

Intended for a wide range of readers, this book covers the main ideas of convex analysis and approximation theory.

This volume of the EMS contains four survey articles on analytic spaces. Starting from basic principles in several complex variables each article stretches out to current trends in research. Graduate students and researchers will find a useful addition in the extensive bibliography at the end of each article.

In this book, a modern unified theory of dispersion forces on atoms and bodies is presented which covers a broad range of different aspects and scenarios. This volume 2 deals especially with quantum electrodynamics, dispersion forces, Casimir forces, asymptotic power laws, quantum friction and universal scaling laws.

Here is both a textbook for beginners and a handbook for specialists in plasma physics and gaseous electronics. Gas discharges of all important types are discussed: breakdown, glow, arc, spark and corona at radio frequency, microwave and optical frequences.

Departing from this, a global 2011 conference debating papers devoted to the impact of ancient philosophy, focusing on Confucius and Aristotle, in modern leadership and management was organized by Hanban, the Athens University of Economics & Business, and the University of International Economics & Business, Beijing, China.

JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.

The three-dimensional arrangement of atoms and molecules in crystals and the comparable magnitude of x-ray wavelengths and interatomic distances make it possible for crystals to have more than one set of atomic planes that satisfy Bragg's law and simultaneously diffract an incident x-ray beam - this is the so-called multiple diffraction.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role of terrestrial ecosystems with regard to the carbon cycle and only recently a regional approach has been considered for its specificity in terms of new methodologies for observations and models and its relevance for national policies on mitigation and adaptation to climate changes.

Statistics has been a main tool in almost every field of activity and an essential part of applied scientific work, supporting conclusions and offering insights into new uses for established methodologies, thus making it a valuable resource in looking for faceless facts.

Semiconductor-Laser Physics discusses the underlying physics and operational principles of semiconductor lasers. A semiclassical and a quantum version of the laser theory are presented, including an analysis of single- and multimode operation, instabilities, laser arrays, unstable resonators, and microcavity lasers.

This book presents the state of the art in research on intrinsically motivated learning and presents novel tools for research. It also identifies related scientific and technological open challenges as well as promising research directions.

This volume presents the revised lecture notes of selected talks given at the Fourth Central European Functional Programming School, CEFP 2011, held in June 2011 in Budapest, Hungary. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed by experts on functional programming and revised based on the reviews.

When trying to solicit authors for this book it became apparent that the causal factors for heterosis at the physiological and biochemical level are today almost as obscure as they were 30 years ago.