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This book, a tribute to historian of mathematics Jeremy Gray, offers an overview of the history of mathematics and its inseparable connection to philosophy and other disciplines. Many different approaches to the study of the history of mathematics have been developed. Understanding this diversity is central to learning about these fields, but very few books deal with their richness and concrete suggestions for the "what, why and how" of these domains of inquiry. The editors and authors approach the basic question of what the history of mathematics is by means of concrete examples. For the "how" question, basic methodological issues are addressed, from the different perspectives of mathematicians and historians. Containing essays by leading scholars, this book provides a multitude of perspectives on mathematics, its role in culture and development, and connections with other sciences, making it an important resource for students and academics in the history and philosophy of mathematics.

This Open Access textbook covers the effects impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cancer care and how health care professionals and people with a cancer diagnosis have been affected. It discusses current research covering COVID and Cancer and considers the different impacts on patients with solid tumours and those with a haematological malignancy. The authors critically appraise how technology has been used to combat the pandemic as well as impacts on patient management and their well-being, education of health care professionals as well as the delivery of oncology cancer treatments. They also examine the ongoing psychological effects on patients, health care professionals and provide an analysis of the effects of the pandemic on the charitable sector in cancer care. Importantly this book provides both a UK and a European perspective on the above as well as looking forward to appraise the long-term effect of the pandemic on cancer care, both positive and negative.

Bäder- und Klimaheilkunde.- Massage.- Elektro- und Ultraschalltherapie.- Phytotherapie.- Homöopathie und verwandte Verfahren.- Anthroposophische Medizin.

I Short Version For Readers In A Hurry.- 1. The Market.- 2. The Objectives.- 3. The Supply Chain Concept.- 4. How to design the supply chains in your company to be on time and on schedule.- 4.1 The main cause of tardy supply chains.- 4.2 The vision of an enterprise that is consistently on time.- 4.3 Realizing an enterprise that is continuously true to schedule.- 4.3.1 Supply chain management (SCM).- 4.3.2 Visualization of the supply chain.- 4.3.3 Realistic supply chain planning.- 4.3.4 Planning and control that eliminate bottlenecks and waste.- 4.4 Your enterprise is now an attractive supply chain partner.- 5 Be even more successful with inter-company supply chains.- 5.1 What good is a supply chain that consists of optimized individual firms?.- 5.2 The lucrative supply chain partnership.- 5.3 What needs to be done?.- 5.4 The advantages of supply chain implementation.- 5.5 There is no Good unless it is done.- 6 What other benefits can you derive from the supply chain concept?.- 6.1 Lower your artificial overhead costs.- 6.1.1 Perform a value analysis of your supply chains.- 6.1.2 Dimension your overhead and engineering departments to meet demand.- 6.1.3 Control your overhead and engineering just like your value adding workforce.- 6.1.4 Identify your "cost drivers".- 6.1.5 Lower overhead costs permanently.- 6.2 Better decisions on the basis of process costs.- 6.3 Lower the break-even point for your enterprise.- 6.4 Organize storage levels in your supply chains.- 6.5 determining your inventory volume yourself.- 6.6 Your employees as entrepreneurs.- 6.7 An organization structure geared to the supply chain.- 7. Fine tuning your enterprise with Supply Chain Management (SCM).- 8. Evaluation of economic efficiency.- 9. Prospects of the supply chain concept.- 9.1 The supply chain-compliant software environment.- 9.2 System leaders offer single-source supply chain accelerators.- 9.3 Real-time control of the supply chain.- 10. Notes on the following detailed chapters.- II. The Intelligent Enterprise.- III. The intra-corporate Wassermann Supply Chain Philosophy.- 1. Objectives of the intelligent enterprise.- 2. The tasks.- 3. The basic elements of the Wassermann Supply Chain Philosophy.- 3.1 The human element at the heart of things.- 3.2 The efficiency rule.- 3.3 The 20/80 rule.- 3.4 The simulation concept.- 4. Revenue and time-saving potentials within supply chains.- 5. An incredibly profitable vision.- 5.1 The proactive harmonization of resources.- 5.2 The continuous reduction of throughput times.- 5.3 Quintessence for a profitable enterprise.- 5.4 The backlog-free performance process.- 6. Actual Situation: the performance process riddled with bottlenecks and waste.- 6.1 Cause 1: No one feels responsible.- 6.2 Cause 2: The inaccuracy of basic data.- 6.3 Cause 3: Imminent bottlenecks are not identifiable.- 6.3.1 The fatal consequence of backlog.- 6.3.2 The unrealistic logic in planning of most ERP systems.- 7. Professional Planning and Control.- 7.1 Supply chain management.- 7.2 Visualization of the supply chain.- 7.3 Requirements for realistic and feasible planning.- 7.3.1 Supply chain simulation.- 7.3.2 Bottleneck workplaces.- 7.3.3 Primary data for the supply chain simulation.- 7.3.4 Output of the Supply Chain Simulation.- 7.4 Intelligent planning and control.- 7.4.1 Complete resource harmonization.- 7.4.2 Guaranteed on-time, feasible work on hand.- 7.4.3 Paperless control.- 7.4.4 Snow and rain events.- 7.4.5 Simple acknowledgment.- 7.4.6 The unnecessary electronic control station.- 7.4.7 Accurate planning and scheduling for your suppliers.- 7.4.8 Trigger production documents.- 7.4.9 Expert groups in a customer/supplier relationship.- 7.4.10 Your process drivers react immediately to changing market demands.- 8.The proactive delivery and inventory policy.- 8.1 Reasons of excessive capital tie-up.- 8.1.1 Throughput times which are much too long.- 8.1.2 The performance process that has yet to be harmonized.- 8.1.3 The unspecific, ove...

1. The Analytic Theory of Differential Equations.- §1. Analyticity of the Solutions of a System of Ordinary Differential Equations.- § 2. Regular Singular Points.- § 3. Irregular Singular Points.- 2. Second-Order Equations on the Real Line.- § 1. Transformations of Second-Order Equations.- § 2. WKB-Bounds.- § 3. Asymptotic Behaviour of Solutions of a Second-Order Equation for Large Values of the Parameter.- § 4. Systems of Two Equations Containing a Large Parameter.- § 5. Systems of Equations Close to Diagonal Form.- § 6. Asymptotic Behaviour of the Solutions for Large Values of the Argument.- § 7. Dual Asymptotic Behaviour.- § 8. Counterexamples.- § 9. Roots of Constant Multiplicity.- § 10. Problems on Eigenvalues.- § 11. A Problem on Scattering.- 3. Second-Order Equations in the Complex Plane.- § 1. Stokes Lines and the Domains Bounded by them.- § 2. WKB-Bounds in the Complex Plane.- § 3. Equations with Polynomial Coefficients. Asymptotic Behaviour of a Solution in the Large.- § 4. Equations with Entire or Meromorphic Coefficients.- § 5. Asymptotic Behaviour of the Eigenvalues of the Operator -d2 / dx2 + ?2q(x). Self-Adjoint Problems.- § 6. Asymptotic Behaviour of the Discrete Spectrum of the Operator -y? + ?2q(x)y. Non-Self-Adjoint Problems.- § 7. The Eigenvalue Problem with Regular Singular Points.- § 8. Quasiclassical Approximation in Scattering Problems.- § 9. Sturm-Liouville Equations with Periodic Potential.- 4. Second-Order Equations with Turning Points.- § 1. Simple Turning Points. The Real Case.- § 2. A Simple Turning Point. The Complex Case.- § 3. Some Standard Equations.- §4. Multiple and Fractional Turning Points.- § 5. The Fusion of a Turning Point and Regular Singular Point.- § 6. Multiple Turning Points. The Complex Case.- § 7. Two Close Turning Points.- § 8. Fusion of Several Turning Points.- 5. nth-Order Equations and Systems.- § 1. Equations and Systems on a Finite Interval.- § 2. Systems of Equations on a Finite Interval.- § 3. Equations on an Infinite Interval.- § 4. Systems of Equations on an Infinite Interval.- § 5. Equations and Systems in the Complex Plane.- § 6. Turning Points.- § 7. A Problem on Scattering, Adiabatic Invariants and a Problem on Eigenvalues.- § 8. Examples.- References.

The cardiovascular system and the neuroendocrine system are integrated at multiple levels. This integration is key to normal physiological function. Further, it adapts to accommodate changes related to aging, the organism's reproductive state, or physiological challenges. This type of adaptability, or plasticity, also can contribute to pathophysiology when these systems are stressed. This volume discusses how neuroendocrine systems influence cardiovascular function in health and disease. The first section provides detailed background information on neuronal and neuroendocrine control of cardiovascular function. This is followed by chapters highlighting the cardiovascular role of neuroendocrine hormones in regulating physiological states, such as pregnancy, and the effects of biological sex on vascular function. The influence of exercise, stress, psychology, and aging on cardiovascular function and dysfunction, and the possibility of therapeutically targeting the neuroendocrine axis for the treatment of cardiovascular disease are discussed in the final section of the book.This book is of relevance for students, trainees and established researchers alike who are seeking for an overview on the neuroendocrine control of cardiovascular function and disease. This is the fourteenth volume in the International Neuroendocrine Federation (INF) Masterclass in Neuroendocrinology series, which aims to illustrate the highest standards and encourage the use of the latest technologies in basic and clinical research and hopes to provide inspiration for further exploration into the exciting field of neuroendocrinology.

Networks Theory.- The Theory of Networks.- Links, Arrows, and Networks: Fundamental Metaphors in Human Thought.- The Multidimensional Networks of Complex Systems.- Network as Dynamic Systems.- Communication and Human Knowledge.- Network Models of Human-Machine Interaction.- Knowledge Network and Market Structure: An Analytical Perspective.- Economic Models of Knowledge Networks.- Videoconferencing: Economic Arguments on an Overrated Communication Network.- Infrastructure Networks.- Overland Transportation Networks: History of Development and Future Prospects.- The Strategic Role of New Infrastructure Networks in Europe.- Europe's Hierarchical Network Economy.- Economic Networks.- Networks, Sustainable Differentiation, and Economic Development.- The Dynamics of Economic Networks.- Economic Network Synergetics.- Contributors to this Volume.

This book provides the logistics, fundamentals, and nuances for all involved in surgery to optimize performance and results in the operating room. A surgical operation is a detailed coordination of a complex procedure involving the integration of many people, facilities, and supplies. The efficiency and success of an operation foremost depends on the professionalism of its staff. These medical professionals must understand the tasks of the operating room milieu of individuals. The surgeon, surgeon's assistant, anesthesiologist, scrub nurse, circulating and recovery room nurses all determine an operation's success and efficiency. Medical professional education too often focuses on senior level preparatory education or capstone projects rather than mastering day to day practical information or techniques. A reflection of this quandary is the establishment of surgical intern "boot camps." These industry subsidized courses taken after medical school graduation are one- or two-week courses whose curriculum is to train recent medical school graduates how to function as surgeons. Patients deserve the work of professionals in and out of the operating room. Expertise in the Operating Room: Logistics, Fundamentals and Nuances presents a thorough understanding of the coordination of all members of a surgical team as well as the commonly used equipment and peri-procedural equipment necessary, serving all participating professionals including medical, nursing, physician associates, nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, other healthcare professional students, as well as surgery and anesthesia resident physicians, operating room staff members, and senior level surgeons.

This book contains the basics of abstract algebra. In addition to elementary algebraic structures such as groups, rings and solids, Galois theory in particular is developed together with its applications to the cyclotomic fields, finite fields or the question of the resolution of polynomial equations. Special attention is paid to the natural development of the contents. Numerous intermediate explanations support this basic idea, show connections and help to better penetrate the underlying concepts. The book is therefore particularly suitable for learning algebra in self-study or accompanying online lectures.

This book provides an overview of the available evidence surrounding immunotherapy in gastrointestinal cancers, and discusses its future place in clinical practice.Immunotherapy has celebrated some astonishing therapeutic successes in a variety of cancer types and is becoming increasingly relevant in daily clinical practice. Currently, the predominant class of immunotherapeutic drugs is the so-called checkpoint inhibitors, which disengage the physiological brakes on the immune system, enabling a more effective anti-cancer immune response. Malignancies of the gastrointestinal tract, which account for the majority of cancer cases worldwide, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, creating an urgent need for more effective therapies. A large number of clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy in gastrointestinal malignancies and demonstrated its potential in certain subsets of patients. This book will appeal to a wide readership, including oncologists, health care professionals in general and biomedical scientists.

This book is an exploration of issues that are essential in end of life care. Understanding end of life practices across cultures and religions is important in the delivery of patient centered end of life care. This book helps clinicians and non-clinicians understand the various end of life practices in their vast patient populations, further contributing to providing empathetic and compassionate end of life care to patients. With the advent of many new options at the end of life, this book also explores the modern day approaches to end of life often sought by patients when faced with disease progression and adversity.

Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Pilzübertragungsweise bei xylomycetophagen Scolytiden (Coleoptera).

1 Fundamentals of Speckle Patterns and Basic Properties.- The Story of Speckles in Interferometry.- Speckle Decorrelation: Observed, Explained, and Tackled (With 6 Figures).- Spatial Characterization of the Laser Speckles at Volume Hologram Reconstruction (With 5 Figures).- Correlation Between Intensity and Phase in Speckle Pattern Interferometry (With 4 Figures).- Laser Doppler and Speckle Phenomena: To an Integrated Approach (With 4 Figures).- Speckle Signal Generation in Self-Mixing Laser Diodes and its use for Speckle Velocimetry (With 7 Figures).- 2 Speckle Photography: Image Correlation Techniques.- From Coherent Speckle Photography to White Light Scratch Correlation.- Experiment/Computation Interactions by Using Digital Image Correlation (With 7 Figures).- Micromechanical Applications of Digital Image Correlation Techniques (With 2 Figures).- Miniaturized Low-Power Motion Detection Based on Optical (With 4 Figures) Speckle Patterns.- Spectral Phase Algorithm: Competitive way to Measure Rapidly Small Displacements by Numerical Speckle Photography (With 3 Figures).- Applications of Digital Image Correlation Technique to the Damage and Fracture Study of Heterogeneous Materials (With 7 Figures).- 3 Holographic Interferometry.- 3.1Theoretical Aspects.- Deformation Measurement by Holographic Interferometry. Analysis on Curved Surfaces (With 1 Figure).- Modification Methods in Holographic and Speckle Interferometry (With 4 Figures).- Microscopic Electronic Holographic Moiré (With 3 Figures).- Holographic Recording of Gratings for Dynamic Strain Field Measurement (With 5 Figures).- 3.2 Manifold Applications.- Advanced Practical Holography: In situ Instant Holographic Interferometry on Silver Halide Media Without Liquid Gates or Repositioning of the Media (With 4 Figures).- Applications of Holographic Interferometry for Nondestructive Dynamic Structural Analysis of Miniature Mechanical Components (With 5 Figures).- Detection of Flaws in Composite Ceramic-Metal Plates with Vibrations and Flexural Waves and Dynamic Holographic Interferometry (With 3 Figures).- Surface Deformations Analysis by Double Exposure Holography Using Guided Waves and Image Processing (With 4 Figures).- 3.3 Photorefractive Holographic Interferometry.- Photorefractive Real Time Interferometry Applied to Non Destructive Testing (With 4 Figures).- Adaptive Interferometry of Speckled Waves in Photorefractive Crystals Using Polarization Self-Modulation (With 3 Figures).- Adaptive Photodetectors Using the Effect of the Non-Steady-State Photoelectromotive Force for Vibration Measurements (With 5 Figures).- Userfriendly and Compact Holographic Camera Based on Photorefractive Crystals. Applications in High Accuracy Metrology (With 6 Figures).- 3.4 Numerical Recontruction Holography.- Digital Holography for Metrologic Applications (With 9 Figures).- Digital Holographic Microscopy, a new Method for Simultaneous Amplitude- and Quantitative Phase-Contrast Imaging (With 2 Figures).- Digital Holography With Improved Resolution by Spatial Sampling of Holograms (With 5 Figures).- A Method for Polarisation Imaging Using Digital Holography (With 4 Figures).- Numerical Heterodyne Holography (With 6 Figures).- Selection of Ballistic Photons in Diffusing Media by Numerical (With 3 Figures) Heterodyne Holography.- Surface Contouring by Phase-Shifting Digital Holography and Noise Reduction (With 7 Figures).- 4 Speckle Interferometry.- 4.1 Methods and Configurations.- Multifunctional Phase-Stepping Interferometer (With 12 Figures).- A Novel Fiber Illumination System for In-plane Displacement Measurement in Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (With 5 Figures).- In-plane Deformation Measurement Using ESPI Carrier Fringes (With 4 Figures).- Measuring Amplitude and Phase of Vibration With Double-Exposure Stroboscopic TV Holography (With 3 Figures).- Real-Time Double-Exposure Stroboscopic TV Holography for the Detection of Very Small Vibrations. A Comparison With Other TVH Techni

As one of the experimental projects initiated by Springer Nature for AI book content generation, this book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the importance of reconfiguring, restructuring and re-evolving educational practices. Each chapter presents summaries of predefined themes and provides the reader with a basis for further exploration of the topic. The pandemic has led academicians, researchers, teachers, students, parents, and even the government to penetrate and understand the challenges that it has brought and the importance of reconfiguring, restructuring and re-evolving educational practices. Insight into the involvement of computer application and information technology can be a harbinger of a new education era. This book precisely discusses these aspects and the future we are moving towards by inculcating technologicalchanges in the educational curriculum.

These Lecture Notes provide an introduction to the study of those discrete surfaces which are obtained by randomly gluing polygons along their sides in a plane. The focus is on the geometry of such random planar maps (diameter, volume growth, scaling and local limits...) as well as the behavior of statistical mechanics models on them (percolation, simple random walks, self-avoiding random walks...).A "Markovian" approach is adopted to explore these random discrete surfaces, which is then related to the analogous one-dimensional random walk processes. This technique, known as "peeling exploration" in the literature, can be seen as a generalization of the well-known coding processes for random trees (e.g. breadth first or depth first search). It is revealed that different types of Markovian explorations can yield different types of information about a surface. Based on an École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour course delivered by the author in 2019, the book is aimed at PhD students and researchers interested in graph theory, combinatorial probability and geometry. Featuring open problems and a wealth of interesting figures, it is the first book to be published on the theory of random planar maps.

This book fills a gap in the field of the cranio-orbital lesions, as it deals only with mass lesions involving both the intracranial and intra-orbital compartments. The surgical anatomy, diagnosis, surgical approaches and specified pathological mass lesions are described in detalis.The book includes four parts. Part 1, is devoted to the surgical anatomy of the orbital region. Part 2 to the clinical and neuroradiological examination of the cranio-orbital mass lesions. Part 3 discusses the surgical approaches, both trans-cranial and transorbital, and microscopic and endoscopic, focusing on the surgical techniques, their indications, advantages, limitations and complications. Finally, part 4 discusses the single pathological mass lesions, their anatomo-clinical and radiological aspects and the best surgical approaches. Aim of this book is to illustrate the best surgical approaches according to prevalent intracranial or intra-orbital extension and the type of the mass lesions.

This comprehensive book covers a wide variety of methods for estimating the sizes and related parameters of closed populations. With the effect of climate change, and human territory invasion, we have seen huge species losses and a major biodiversity decline. Populations include plants, trees, various land and sea animals, and some human populations. With such a diversity of populations, an extensive variety of different methods are described with the collection of different types of data. For example, we have count data from plot sampling, which can also allow for incomplete detection. There is a large chapter on occupancy methods where a major interest is determining whether a particular species is present or not. Citizen and opportunistic survey data can also be incorporated. A related topic is species methods, where species richness and species' interactions are of interest. A variety of distance methods are discussed. One can use distances from points and lines, as wellas nearest neighbor distances. The applications are extensive, and include marine, acoustic, and aerial surveys, using multiple observers or detection devices. Line intercept measurements have a role to play such as, for example, estimating parameters relating to plant coverage. An increasingly important class of removal methods considers successive "removals" from a population, with physical removal or "removal" by capture-recapture of marked individuals. With the change-in-ratio method, removals are taken from two or more classes, e.g., males and females. Effort data used for removals can also be used. A very important method for estimating abundance is the use of capture-recapture data collected discretely or continuously and can be analysed using both frequency and Bayesian methods. Computational aspects of fitting Bayesian models are described. A related topic of growing interest is the use of spatial and camera methods. With the plethora of models there has been a corresponding development of various computational methods and packages, which are often mentioned throughout. Covariate data is being used more frequently, which can reduce the number of unknown parameters by using logistic and loglinear models. An important computational aspect is that of model selection methods. The book provides a useful list of over 1400 references.

This book explores the theoretical origins, historical foundation, political meaning, and legal development of western constitutionalism, as well as the structure and transformation of constitutional law in the Western World. Introducing the historical background of western constitutional traditions, it links this rich, conceptual framework with the legal arrangements of states' constitutions and the current trends of the internationalization of constitutional law. Serving as a comprehensive introduction to constitutional studies, this book provides detailed information on the design of legal systems, while addressing the main critical, theoretical issues raised by constitutionalism in western democracies and in the global landscape. This new, third edition covers a broader scope, reflecting recent political and legal transformations, and is enriched in terms of didactic instruments for university students.

This book spares you the entry-level problems of mathematics by entertainingly building a bridge that gently guides you over any shoals and into the heart of college mathematics. The bridge starts on one side with simple number crunching, as you probably encountered it in middle school, and takes you across to the basics of linear algebra, differential calculus, and probability, which will be the main content of your first few semesters. You will always face this content there, and when dealing with it you can then say with confidence, "I know it already!" The authors have succeeded in writing a mathematics book for students of all disciplines and continuing professional education that is easy to read from cover to cover without getting lost in formalism or humorless dryness, but that nevertheless left you with the necessary knowledge and technical confidence after reading it. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises that can be used to practice and reinforce the content taught. This book is a translation of the original German edition Brückenkurs Mathematik by Guido Walz, 4th edition, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE in 2014. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.Voices to the 1st German language edition 'At last, an engaging, successful preparatory course that accurately highlights the elementary but essential basic concepts.' Priv.-Doz. Dr. Frank Hettlich, University of Karlsruhe 'Easy to read and compile work that is very convincing due to its entertaining nature.' Prof. Dr. Sax Kreutz, University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg

This is the definitive text for the intersection of neurosurgery and plastic surgery, a crucial and undertreated subject. It is a comprehensive, stand-alone and topically organized book that provides a synthesis of information, experience and wisdom for practitioners of adult and pediatric neurosurgery, including all subspecialties.The first of the three parts of the book includes foundational information on normal and abnormal anatomy, wound healing and surgical details for the management of skin, fascia, muscle, bone and dura, important subjects which receive little attention in neurosurgical literature. The second part of the book consists of descriptions of the plastic components ¿ i.e., the opening and closing for neurosurgical approaches. Neurosurgical approaches are presented in three groups: intracranial, spinal and exposure of peripheral nerves. The plastic neurosurgical concerns for each approach are emphasized, and each chapter includes citations of relevant sources. The third part of the book presents the plastic neurosurgery of cranial and craniofacial disorders and the role of neurosurgeons in these surgeries, which are often performed with plastic surgeons. All neurosurgeons, particularly in the formative years of their residencies and fellowships, should learn and never forget not only the what and how but also the why of the plastic components of neurosurgery. This text fills this important gap in the literature.

This is a unique book containing comprehensive coverage of pluripotent stem cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes. The greatest enthusiasm for treatment lies in the possibility of using stem cells to overcome the limits of islet transplantation. Organized into six parts, this book covers the development and differentiation of beta cells, bioengineering, immunoescape, preclinical model and translational approaches, beta cell replacement, and disease modeling. This is an ideal book for scientists, researchers, and clinicians working in the area of stem cell technology in the treatment of diabetes.

This book addresses the main concepts of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and the well-known economic problem of inflation within traditional financial systems (TradFi). The authors discuss how both systems are connected and describe how they influence each other. Furthermore, new technological developments in the finance sector are considered and explained. The book provides not only a theoretical background to understand how money has evolved over time but also many practical cases and advise to navigate the digital money era. While digitalization and innovation are evolving rapidly, this book aims to be time-independent in its content and in its focus on concepts. The book appeals not only to an academic audience but also to professionals working in the field.

Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs. Their role in these ecosystems is no less important than the influence that shallow-water coral reefs have on tropical systems. They create habitat structure, host endemic species, enhance elemental cycling, alter current flow, sequester carbon, and provide many other ecosystem services that we are just beginning to understand. The rapidly evolving state of knowledge of cold-water and deep-sea coral reefs has not been compiled in over 10 years. This volume synthesizes recent and historical information, reveals new findings from reefs that have been discovered only recently, and presents key avenues for future research. We are on the cusp of understanding the critical role that cold-water coral reefs play in the world¿s oceans, and this book lays the foundation on which this knowledge will be built in the future.

Otologie und Rhinologie.- 50 Jahre otogener und rhinogener Hirnabszeß -ein Erfahrungsbericht.- Sinusitistherapie Heute - eine Übersicht.- Das Papilloma inversum von Nase und Nebenhöhlen.- Laryngologie.- Die beidseitige Rekurrensparese - Glottiserweiternde Eingriffe.- Das Kehlkopfkarzinom.- Allgemeine Themen.- Literatursuche heute - aber wie?.- Die Fokuslehre aus heutiger Sicht des HNO-Arztes.- Fragensammlung zur Selbstkontrolle Zusammengestellt.- Antworten zur Fragensammlung.

Genetic Tools. Development of Regulatable Expression Systems For Cloned Genes in Cold-Adapted Bacteria.- Enzyme Biotechnology. Biotechnology of Enzymes From Cold-Adapted Microorganisms. Low Temperature organic Phase Biocatalysts Using Cold-Adaptd Enzymes. Lipases A and B From the Yeast Candida antarctica. Peptide Hydrolases From Antarctic Krill - an Important New Tool With Promising Medical Potential. Heat-Labile Uracil-DNA Glycosilase From a Psychrophilic Marine Bacterium.- Health Biotechnology. Principle of Cold-Adaptation in the Derivation of Live-Attenuated Respiratory Virus Vaccines.- Food Biotechnology. Cold-Adapted Microorganisms for Use in Food Biotechnology. Low Temperature Fermentation of Wine and Beer by Cold-Adapted and Immobilized Yeast Cells.- Agricultural Biotechnology. Cold-Resistant Plant Development by Genetic Manipulation of Membrane Lipids. The Potential Use of Cold.-Adapted Rhizobia to Improve Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes Cultivated in Temperate Regions. Plant Protection by Cold-Adapted Fungi. Snow Mold-Crop-Environment Interactions.- Environmental Biotechnology. Simulation Analysis of Operation for a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant at Low Temperatures. The Potentials of Submesophilic and/or Psychrophylic Anaerobic Treatment of Low Strength Wastewaters. Effectiveness of Wastewater Lagoons in Cold Regions. Low Temperature Anaerobic Treatment of Swine Manure. Biodegradation of Organic Pollutants at Low Temperatures.- Bio-Mining. Biohydrometallurgical Processes and Temperature.- Multidisciplinary Applications. Applications of Biological Ice Nucleators. Applications of Antifreeze Proteins.- The complete Table of Contents can be found on the Internet.

This book covers the history of kinematics from the Greeks to the 20th century. It shows that the subject has its roots in geometry, mechanics and mechanical engineering and how it became in the 19th century a coherent field of research, for which Ampère coined the name kinematics. The story starts with the important Greek tradition of solving construction problems by means of kinematically defined curves and the use of kinematical models in Greek astronomy. As a result in 17th century mathematics motion played a crucial role as well, and the book pays ample attention to it. It is also discussed how the concept of instantaneous velocity, unknown to the Greeks, etc was introduced in the late Middle Ages and how in the 18th century, when classical mechanics was formed, kinematical theorems concerning the distribution of velocity in a solid body moving in space were proved. The book shows that in the 19th century, against the background ofthe industrial revolution, the theory of machines and thus the kinematics of mechanisms received a great deal of attention. In the final analysis, this led to the birth of the discipline.

The book presents the winners of the Abel Prize in mathematics for the period 2018-2022: - Robert P. Langlands (2018) - Karen K. Uhlenbeck (2019) - Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis (2020) - Lászlo Lóvász and Avi Wigderson (2021) - Dennis P. Sullivan (2022) The profiles feature autobiographical information as well as a scholarly description of each mathematician's work. In addition, each profile contains a Curriculum Vitae, a complete bibliography, and the full citation from the prize committee. The book also includes photos from the period 2018-2022 showing many of the additional activities connected with the Abel Prize. This book follows on The Abel Prize: 2003-2007. The First Five Years (Springer, 2010) and The Abel Prize 2008-2012 (Springer, 2014) as well as on The Abel Prize 2013-2017 (Springer, 2019), which profile the previous Abel Prize laureates.

This book explores the complex and various forms that privatization of education takes on a global scale at different ages of schooling. Through the spread of neoliberal policies in education both in the global North and the global South, the book suggests that this process is leading to new forms of schooling and socio-spatial dynamics linked to the creation of increasingly competitive school markets. The book highlights some of the main issues that such competition generates by focusing on the acceleration of the segregative processes on one hand but also on the alternatives that are emerging regarding this global context on the other hand. It considers processes of domination, hegemony, but also exclusion and segregation, eventually exploring contradictions inherent to societies. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, sociology, history and demography in the United States, Lebanon, France, Afghanistan and Chile, thereby transcending disciplinary boundaries. Developed in under or unexplored contexts, the book broadens the reflection to social representations, individual and collective strategies, adaptation, innovation and also resistances.

The construction of the Panama Canal at the beginning of the twentieth century created an enclave that ran parallel to the interoceanic waterway, controlled by the US government: the Canal Zone. This book aims to understand the implications that Panama Canal Zone urban planning had on human health, natural resources, and biodiversity through the study case of Fort Clayton, highlighting how the sanitary concerns shaped building regulations and the urban landscape of towns.This book highlights the role of North American entomologists and health workers in developing control strategies for diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and how mosquitös ecology determined building regulations that shaped the image of the Canal Zone towns. On the other hand, the book determines the environmental assessment of Fort Clayton, determined by the two fundamental aspects that set on the environmental impact of an urban settlement. The first one is the suitability of the site's location. The second is the urban structure of the adopted city model and its impact on the connectivity of the surrounding forests during the twentieth century.This text is aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, architects, urban planners, historians, and environmental science professionals.

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) is a well-known and popular method to evaluate the economic sustainability, which as the term implies is structured on the life cycle of a product or process. LCC is a method primarily consisting of estimating the total cost of a product, taking into account the whole life cycle of the product as well as the direct and external costs. It is one of the important methods and tools under the sustainability umbrella. This book describes the concept of LCC and offers several interesting case studies.