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Computing Equilibria and Fixed Points is devoted to the computation of equilibria, fixed points and stationary points.

This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn.

In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life?

Reassesses the phenomenological "controversy" between Hesserl and Heidegger over the proper status of the phenomenon of intentionality. It aims to determine whether the latter's hermeneutical critique of intentionality is sensitive to Husserl's reflective account of its "sachen selbst".

CDMA Techniques for Third Generation Mobile Systems presents advanced techniques for analyzing and developing third generation mobile telecommunication systems.

The early 21st century is the age of networked information, where more than ever in the history of technological progress, society relies on communication networks. This text presents progress made in optical network architectures, design, operation and management.

Observability and Scientific Realism It is commonly thought that the birth of modern natural science was made possible by an intellectual shift from a mainly abstract and specuJative conception of the world to a carefully elaborated image based on observations.

Using English Words examines the impact that the life histories of people have on their vocabulary. It is mainly the second type of word that native speakers start learning relatively late in their use of English, usually in the adolescent years of education, and keep on learning.

`Are the Great Lakes getting better or worse?' This is the question that the public, scientists and managers are asking the International Joint Commission after a quarter-century of cooperative action by the United States and Canadian governments to clean up the Great Lakes.

The International Symposium on Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems held in Narita, Japan, August 26-29, 1996

This book introduces the ten nation region of Southeast Asia: The main themes of the book are diversity, differential development and changing socio-economic and political setting affecting these characteristics in the 1990s.

The major part of the world's high grade industrial manganese ore is being mined in supergene deposits. This text represents an attempt to bring together not only academic but also commercial data on all aspects of the geochemistry of formation of supergene manganese ores.

Georges Benko "Societies are much messier than our theories of them" Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social sciences?

In modern agriculture man has been able to control many if not most pathogens using i) pesticides, ii) phyto sanitary methods such as control of seed and plant material in order to start a crop disease free, iii) agronomic measures such as crop rotation, iv) disease resis tance or combinations of these measures.

To know the work of Jitendra Nath Mohanty even slightly is to commence to appreciate it immensely.

Review papers presented at the Australian Conference, The Role of Trees in Sustainable Agriculture, Albury, Victoria, Australia, October 1991

The discovery of the reduction of acetylene to ethylene by nitrogenase provided the ideal answer to the problem by provid ing a rapid, specific, nondestructive, and inexpensive assay for nitrogenase activity.

Over the last twenty-five years the significance of criminal justice has dramatically changed. This "illuminating" book will be an eye-opener for theorists in criminology and moral philosophy, but will also be an inspiring work for policy makers in the area of criminal justice.

Theoretical linguistics is a term not very often used in Soviet Linguistics. Some lin guists tend to identify theoretical linguistics with generative grammar.

On the psychometric front, advances in topics such as item response theory, criterion-referenced measurement, generalizability theory,* analy sis of covariance structures, and validity generalization are reshaping the ways that ability and achievement tests are constructed and evaluated, and that test scores are interpreted.

Containing case studies and research findings, this book deals with methods and tools suitable for designing, managing, and controlling processes within the supply chain. The authors are leading experts within the international community in the field of production management.

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Parallel and Distributed Information Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

System Modelling and Optimization covers research issues within systems theory, optimization, modelling, and computing.

TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT Investment expenditures of companies govern economic growth. Kriebel, 1989 notes that (already) in 1989 roughly 50 percent of new corporate capital expenditures by major United States companies was in information and communication technology.

Contact Mechanics studies the stress and strain states of bodies in contact; This book investigates a variety of contact problems: discrete contact of rough surfaces, the effect of imperfect elasticity and mechanical inhomogeneity of contacting bodies, models of friction and wear, changes in contact characteristics during the wear process, etc.

This book is a study of the core issues in the field of business ethics from both an historical and a systematic standpoint. It analyzes corporate social responsibility, stakeholders, ethical codes, corporate cultures, and other issues.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology 1996 focuses on the relationship between morphology and psycholinguistics. The present yearbook also contains articles on periphrasis, the nature of inflectional morphology and syncretism in derivational morphology.

Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology.