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Overview: Taking advantage of the many specialists visiting Spain prior to the INFORMS Meeting in Barcelona, hold from July 14th to July 17th 1997, we organized a work­ shop on Decision Analysis Applications at the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain, from J uly 11th to 12th 1997, under the sponsorship of de the Instituto Espaiia. This workshop had a precedent in the International Conference Decision Making: Towards the 21st Century also held at the Real Academia de Ciencias in 1993. The idea of organizing an event, this time devoted to applications of Decision Analysis, was due to Prof.

Overview: First text treating all aspects of credibility.Results are derived and intuitively interpreted.Practitioners find many applications.Includes supplementary material: The topic of credibility theory has been for many years — and still is — one of our major interests. This interest has led us not only to many publications, but also has been the motivation for teaching many courses on this topic over more than 20 years. These courses have undergone considerable changes over time. What we present here, “A Course in Credibility Theory and its Applications”, is the ?nal product of this evol

Overview: 978-3-662-00604-7

Overview: 1. THE SEMIOTIC CHARACTER OF ABORIGINAL SIGN LANGUAGES In our culture, language, especially in its spoken manifestation, is the much vaunted hallmark of humanity, the diagnostic trait of man that has made possible the creation of a civilization unknown to any other terrestrial organism. Through our inheritance of a /aculte du langage, culture is in a sense bred inta man. And yet, language is viewed as a force wh ich can destroy us through its potential for objectification and classification. According to popular mythology, the naming of the animals of Eden, while giving Adam and Eve

Overview: Provides a description of a variety of emerging X-ray imaging techniques.Addresses both the advantages and challenges of each X-ray microscopy.Describes the applications of each X-ray microscopy in ne.This book comprehensively outlines synchrotron-based X-ray imaging technologies and their associated applications in gaining fundamental insights into the physical and chemical properties as well as reaction mechanisms of energy materials. In this book the major X-ray imaging technologies utilised, depending on research goals and sample specifications, are discussed. With X-ray imaging

Overview: 978-3-662-05626-4

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-642-90497-4978-3-642-92354-8

Overview: 978-3-540-34696-8978-3-540-34697-5Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Provides new insights in the field of anthropic robots and locomotion.A reliable and authoritative source of information for robotic researchers and developers.Includes supplementary material: .This monograph presents an updated source of information on the state of the art in advanced control of articulated and mobile robots. It includes relevant selected problems dealing with enhanced actuation, motion planning and control functions for articulated robots, as well as of sensory and autonomous decision capabilities for mobile robots. The basic idea behind the book is to provide a la

Overview: IB-Diskurse in ChinaDie innerchinesische Auseinandersetzung mit Modellen der Internationalen Beziehungen und die Konzeption alternativer Ordnungsvorstellungen sind in der westlichsprachigen Literatur bislang noch nicht aufgearbeitet worden. Damit schließt das Buch eine Lücke im Bereich der IB-Forschung, die sich bislang weitgehend auf westliche Modellentwürfe beschränkt, bietet aber auch dem Sinologen und dem an China interessierten Leser Einblick in diejenigen strategischen Diskurse, die der Ausgestaltung der chinesischen Außenpolitik und der Selbstpositionierung Chinas im Weltgesch

Overview: Numerous PET/CT images of various pediatric tumors.PET/CT images of rare pediatric pathologies.Identification of pitfalls and artifacts.Guidance on the optimal performance of PET/CT scansThis richly illustrated book presents the pediatric applications of PET/CT in the full range of scenarios frequently encountered in a professional setting. It opens with a thorough introduction covering the fundamental science and the clinical basis for use of PET/CT in this age group. Pitfalls and artifacts are examined, and normal variations and benign findings are carefully described. Each subsequ

Overview: Provides an accessible and succinct overview of surgical techniques with supporting illustrative material.Broadens reader‘s understanding of complicated surgeries through structured explanations.GatheThis atlas presents current and proven strategies and techniques for body contouring in plastic and reconstructive surgery.  In the majority of plastic surgeries, and likewise in body contouring surgeries, surgeons don‘t have the luxury of long learning curves. The book‘s simple, descriptive, and didactic structure addresses this issue.. .The topics have been carefully selected to avoid

Overview: 978-3-540-37025-3978-3-540-37026-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: First ever comprehensive treatment of moving mesh methods for solving time-dependent Partial Differential Equations.General error analysis for adaptive mesh generation using equidistribution and align.Moving mesh methods are an effective, mesh-adaptation-based approach for the numerical solution of mathematical models of physical phenomena. Currently there exist three main strategies for mesh adaptation, namely, to use mesh subdivision,  local high order approximation (sometimes combined with mesh subdivision), and mesh movement. The latter type of adaptive mesh method has been less

Overview: 978-3-322-92864-1

Overview: Explains why opposition groups participate in non-democratic elections and what triggers post-election protests in the Arab World.Provides a way to understand various political outcomes arising from bThis book examines how opposition groups respond to the dilemma posed by authoritarian elections in the Arab World, with specific focus on Jordan and Algeria. While scholars have investigated critical questions such as why authoritarian rulers would hold elections and whether such elections lead to further political liberalization, there has been comparatively little work on the strategi

Overview: There are many ways of introducing the concept of probability in classical, i. e, deter­ ministic, physics. This work is concerned with one approach, known as "the method of arbitrary funetionJ. " It was put forward by Poincare in 1896 and developed by Hopf in the 1930‘s. The idea is the following. There is always some uncertainty in our knowledge of both the initial conditions and the values of the physical constants that characterize the evolution of a physical system. A probability density may be used to describe this uncertainty. For many physical systems, dependence on the initi

Overview: This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators, artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond the walls of these institutions. The various chapters take up the complex and interconnected pedagogics of subjectivity, identity, meaning making and interpretation, knowledge, authority, prescription, innovation, and creativity. The contributors are a combination of scholars, professors, graduate students, heritage and cultu

Overview: Die eng zusammenhängenden Wissensgebiete Tensoren, Spezielle Funktionen und partielle Differentialgleichungen werden in einer für die Belange der Ingenieurmathematik zugeschnittenen Form dargestellt.A.Animationen im Internet veranschaulichen z. B. die Wellengleichung durch eine schwingende Membran, die Wärmeleitung durch eine abnehmende Temperaturverteilung und die Potentialgleichung durch ein von der Randbelegung aufgeprägtes Potenzial. Welche Methoden verbergen sich dahinter, wie erzeugt man diese Animationen? Darauf soll der Leser eine erschöpfende Antwort geben können. Auf ausfüh

Overview: 0.1. The aim of the book Our "Contributions to a General Asymptotic Statistical Theory" (Springer Lecture Notes in Statistics, Vol. 13, 1982, called "Vol. I" in the following) suggest to describe the local structure of a general family ~ of probability measures by its tangent space, and the local behavior of a functional K: ~ ~~k by its gradient. Starting from these basic concepts, asymptotic envelope power functions for tests and asymptotic bounds for the concentration of estimators are obtained, and heuristic procedures are suggested for the construction of test- and estimator-sequ