BOOKS with Alphabet   M (Ma,Mb,Mc, Md,Me…)

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection, Reflection‘99, held in St. Malo, France in July 1999. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 44 submissions. Also included are six short papers and the abstracts of three invited talks. The papers are organized in sections on programming languages, meta object protocols, middleware/multi-media, work in progress, applications, and meta-programming. The volume covers all current issues arising in th

Overview: Presents a family of advanced methods of optimization, called Metaheuristics.Includes simulated annealing, tabu search, evolutionary and genetic algorithms, ant colonies.Contains case studies from eng.Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization comprises of three parts. The first part is devoted to the detailed presentation of the four most widely known metaheuristics:..• the simulated annealing method,..• tabu search,..• the evolutionary algorithms,..• ant colony algorithms...Each one of these metaheuristics is actually a family of methods, of which the essential elements are discussed. In

Overview: First discussions on several topics of this book took place at a symposium held at the University of Karlsruhe (July 14 - 21, 1985). The book is divided into nine parts with the headings "Methodology and Methods" (4 papers), "Prices" (9), "Efficiency" (5), "Preferences" (7), "Quality" (2), "Inequality" (6), "Taxation" (6), "Aggregation" (6), and "Econometrics" (6). The topics range from the "equation of measurement", a functional equation which plays an important role in the subject, through various approaches to price, efficiency, inequality and tax progression measurement to result

Overview: MODULA-2 is a new programming language which was created by Niklaus Wirth of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. The lan­ guage is derived from PASCAL: it includes all aspects of PASCAL and some­ times improves on them. Moreover, MODULA-2 includes the important "mod­ ule" concept, as well as multiprogramming capabilities and a way of implemen­ ting low-level software in an elegant manner. In summary, MODULA-2 may be used equally well as a general-purpose programming language and as a system implementation language. MODULA-2 provides the programmer with a good w

Overview: Covers different micro electrical discharge machining (EDM) processes, such as ultrasonic vibration assisted, laser assisted, and piezoelectric self-adaptive micro EDM.Discusses the latest challenges .This book offers a comprehensive collection of micro electrical discharge machining (EDM) processes, including hybrid processes. It discusses the theory behind each process and their applications in various technological as well as biomedical domains, and also presents a brief background to various micro EDM processes, current research challenges, and detailed case studies of micro-manu

Overview: The only existing state-of-the-art book in Micropolar Theory of Elasticity.The monograph "Micropolar Theory of Elasticity" is devoted to the asymmetric.theory of elasticity and thermoelasticity, aiming at researchers and.postgraduate students in solid mechanics and applied mathematics, as.well as mechanical engineers. It offers various new results including the basic field equations, general methods of integration of basic equations, formulations of problems, as well as solutions to particular problems. The presented general solutions cover those of.Galerkin, Green-Lamé and Papkovitc

Overview: Correlated data arise in numerous contexts across a wide spectrum of subject-matter disciplines. Modeling such data present special challenges and opportunities that have received increasing scrutiny by the statistical community in recent years. In October 1996 a group of 210 statisticians and other scientists assembled on the small island of Nantucket, U. S. A. , to present and discuss new developments relating to Modelling Longitudinal and Spatially Correlated Data: Methods, Applications, and Future Direc­ tions. Its purpose was to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to explore the

Overview: Presents a concise yet comprehensive summary.Chapters written by experts in their fields.Essential components for developing a high risk program are outlined.Includes supplementary material: .Management of the Patient at High Risk for Breast Cancer. provides a state-of-the art review of patients who are at high risk for breast cancer, how to identify them, the tools available for risk assessment and quantification and indications for genetic counseling and testing. The book summarizes the high risk breast imaging options, including newest techniques and schedules. Pathologic evaluati

Overview: Im Buch wird aus Schilderungen von Kindern deutlich, wie sie sich, ihre Familie, ihr Umfeld unter Armutsbedingungen sehen. Eine einzigartige Analyse der verheerenden, vielschichtigen Auswirkungen von Armut auf Kinder. Das Buch liefert die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Studie, die die Lebenslage von Kindern im Grundschulalter aus der Perspektive der Kinder untersucht. Es handelt sich um eine der ersten Studien, die auf Eigenaussagen der Kinder basiert. Insgesamt zeigt sich, dass die Prozesse zunehmender Benachteiligung und des mehrdimensionalen Ausschlusses von Kindern eine theoretisc

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: In einer repräsentativen Studie untersucht Paul M. Zulehner den Modernisierungsstress in Bezug auf Freiheitsbewusstsein/Unterwerfungsbereitschaft, Geschlechterrollen, islamische Gläubigkeit, dem viele Muslime aus vormodernen Kulturen, die in westeuropäische Länder migrieren, ausgesetzt werden. Die Daten belegen, dass zumal jüngere Muslimas sich in ihrem Frauenbild westlichen Frauen annähern und sich im Zeitraum von zwei Generationen eine Art „Europäischer Islam von unten“ entwickelt. Die Islamische Religionsgemeinschaft

Overview: Despite the tremendous diversity of the cells of the hematopoietic system, they are all derived from common precursor cells that are generated in the fetus and persist into adult life. In this regard, Band T lymphocytes, which comprise the two arms of the antigen-specific and inducible immune system, though functionally very different, are descendants of the same stem cell precursor. In the past several years, we have witnessed an explosion of information regarding the process by which differentiation of B-and T-cells from stem cells occurs. This information, like the answers to most

Overview: Outstanding, easy-to-use learning tool with many practical teaching points.Excellent clinical, radiological, surgical, and pathological correlation.Some 600 color images of intraoperative appearances,.This innovative teaching atlas provides the reader with a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of the common and uncommon diseases that may involve the pancreatic gland. Its perspective is multidisciplinary, the authors being radiologists, surgeons, pathologists, and gastroenterologists who have worked together for the past 25 years. Very concise descriptions of clinical p

Overview: The International Conference Mesons and Light Nuclei, organized by the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Rez, was held during July 2 - 7, 1995 in small north Bohemian town Straz pod Ralskem. It was the sixth in a series of meetings which took place previously at Liblice 74 and 81, Bechyne 85 and 88, and Prague 91. The conferences gained already their firm position among intermediate energy nuclear physics activities. International nuclear physics community strongly supported our intention to continue the series. This year‘s venue for the conference was the accommodation and social

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Overview: Brings clarity to the subtle questions raised by the Second Law of thermodynamics and time‘s arrow.Provides insights into the relationship between probability and the natural sciences.Explores the var.Many people, including physicists, are confused about what the Second Law of thermodynamics really means, about how it relates to the arrow of time, and about whether it can be derived from classical mechanics. They also wonder what entropy really is: Is it all about information? But, if so, then, what is its relation to fluxes of heat?.One might ask similar questions about probabilitie

Overview: Unique book focusing on microRNA targeted therapy for a variety of solid tumors.First book which documents systems biology and network modeling of miRNAs for cancer therapy.The chapters in this book iSince the discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) some twenty years ago by Victor Ambros, David Baulcombe and Gary Ruvkun, these three scientists worked to uncover the mystery of miRNA, the small segments of nucleotides that silence genes. While studying the development of the nematode worm, Ambros and Ruvkun discovered miRNA in animals, while Baulcombe discovered it in plants. Since their disco

Overview: We met because we both share the same views of language. Language is a living organism, produced by neural mechanisms relating in large numbers as a society. Language exists between minds, as a way of communicating between them, not as an autonomous process. The logical ‘rules‘ seem to us an epiphe­ nomena ·of the neural mechanism, rather than an essential component in language. This view of language has been advocated by an increasing number of workers, as the view that language is simply a collection of logical rules has had less and less success. People like Yorick Wilks have been

Overview: 978-3-540-29326-2978-3-540-32095-1Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Commissioned by the Swiss Federation of Manual Medicine and under the patronage of FIMM (International Federation of Manual Medicine) we conducted an international seminar during the week following the 7th Inter­ national Congress of FIMM (Zuerich/Switzerland - September 1983). Thirty Manual Medicine experts had come together in the education center of the Cloister Fischingen secluded in the eastern part of Switzerland and away from any city life, to discuss in a week long seminar the status of Man­ ual Medicine. Working together in the form of several groups, the following points we

Overview: This book contains the papers presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Biology Division Research Conference which was held April 1-4, 1974 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The topic of the symposium was Mechanisms in Recombination and it follows by exactly twenty years the previous Gatlinburg Symposium on Genetic Recombination. During this interval, and the preceding years as well, the process of recombination has remained a central and tantalizing problem for geneticists. The subject assumes added significance with the recent appeal by a committee of leading scientists for a moratorium on th