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Overview: This book summarizes the proceedings of the invited talks presented at the International Symposium of Physics and Application of Optical Solitons in Fibers held in Kyoto during November 14 to 17,1995. As a result of worldwide demand for ultra high bitrate transmissions and increased scientific interests from the soliton community, research on optical solitons in fibers has made a remarkable progress in recent years. In view of these trends, and with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Research Group for Optical Soliton Communications (ROSC), chai

Overview: Offers a fresh perspective to systems dynamics without following the traditional ODE approach..Provides a direct connection to numerical methods..Avoids the cumbersome graphical methods that are oftenMechanical engineering, an engineering discipline borne of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face profound is­ sues of productivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series features graduate texts and res

Overview: The field of phase transfer catalysis is a tribute to the chemists involved in process development research. Phase transfer catalysis is a solution to numerous cost and yield problems encountered regularly in industrial laboratories. In fact, much of the early work in this area was conducted by industrial chemists although the work was not labelled phase transfer catalysis at the time. We certainly do not intend to minimize the contributions of academic chemists to this field, but it is an unalterable fact that much of the early understanding and many of the early advances came from

Overview: It is indeed a pleasure to write a foreword for this spectacular book which represents a landmark in the history of ocular pathology. Not since the three volumes of the Henke-Lubarsch handbook appeared forty years ago has anything like this come on the market. This book represents a compre­ hensive, thorough and up-to-date clinically oriented textbook on ocular pathology. We are all indebted to the senior author, who is now professor of ophthal­ mology at the University of Erlangen, who presents us here with the fruit of decades of industrious endeavors. We also have to be grateful t

Overview: An investigation of the developing discourses of English Language teachers in teaching and training. Showing how teachers are shaped by the discourses they participate in and how they shape these discourses. By analyzing professional development through professional discourse the book sheds light on what teachers do and why they do it.978-1-349-36327-8978-0-230-59417-3Series ISSN 2947-812X Series E-ISSN 2947-8138

Overview: This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia.978-1-349-49292-3978-1-137-43423-4

Overview: The recent crisis in financial markets has seen a gradual erosion of risk-free asset classes. In equity markets the credit risk has reached a critical level in valuation. Here a new cost of equity method for private companies is presented based on the pricing of junior subordinated notes. Global business cases are illustrated to support this.978-1-349-33201-4978-1-137-27178-5Series ISSN 2946-3831 Series E-ISSN 2946-384X

Overview: Immunology, in all its facets of immunochemistry, humoral immunity, cellular immunity, immunodiagnosis, and immunotherapy, is currently the most rapidly advancing discipline of clinical and experimental oncology. But as in most developing subjects, it is continually beset with problems of methodology and nomenclature, both of which are often intertwined. Indicative of this problem are our circular definitions of antigen and antibody. Another fre­ quent problem is the use of the words "specific" and "associated" when characterizing re­ actions to tumors or the antigenic properties of

Overview: Specifically devoted to class room education.Comprehensive vision of the landscape ecology.Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science and .Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology. reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular ,new paradigms and theories such as percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source-sink models have been integrated in this last edition with the recent theories on bio-complexity, information and cognitive sciences. ..Methods for studying landscape ecology are covered including spatial geome

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I find contemporary notions oftemperance to be sorely lacking when compared and contrasted to these historical conceptions. Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts of temperance are particularly important to the normative statement of temperance I offer here. To ful

Overview: Developments in the media and the social consequences.Precarity in and through the internet.International and interdisciplinary.Includes supplementary material: The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity. .Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth and Digital Capitalism, Informational Capitalism and Social Exclusion, Digital Globalization and Motility frame the social dynamics and implications of changes in

Overview: A collection of essays and some related poems by almost 30 contemporary poets who have worked for years outside the "mainstream" of British publishing. Many are or have been small-press publishers and editors too.978-0-333-47130-2978-1-349-22048-9Series ISSN 2947-0188 Series E-ISSN 2947-0196

Overview: The 4-volume set LNCS 13534, 13535, 13536 and 13537 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2022, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2022..The 233 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 564 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Theories and Feature Extraction; Machine learning, Multimedia and Multimodal; Optimization and Neural Network and Deep Learning; Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis; Pattern Classification and Clustering; 3D Compu

Overview: Presents two comparative case studies: the Iranian Revolution and the public intellectuals in Europe, specifically in Norway.Analyzes the rise of the figure of the universal intellectual in various foThis book addresses the ways in which the figure of the intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been theorized through the conceptualizations of bureaucracy, democracy, and communism as universal processes from the 19th century to the present. Starting with Hegel and Marx, the author looks at the rise of the figure of the universal intellectual in various forms, before tur

Overview: Politikwissenschaft im Meinungsstreit!Politikwissenschaft sollte sich nach Auffassung Egbert Jahns in den politischen Meinungsstreit in erster Linie durch sachkundige Analysen, aber auch durch prononcierte politische Stellungnahmen einmischen. In den vorliegenden Texten zur deutschen Innen- und Außenpolitik stellt er den zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund einiger zentraler Themen der deutschen Innen- und Außenpolitik dar, u. a. zu den die Gesellschaft tief spaltenden Kontroversen um Thilo Sarrazin und Martin Hohmann, zur Einwanderungs- und Integrationspolitik, die mit der Frage der mehr

Overview: Percutaneous lumbar discectomy is a new surgical method for treating lumbar disc diseases. The goal of the procedure is decompression of the spinal nerve root by percutaneous removal of the nucleus pulposus under local anesthesia. Probably 20 % of all patients requiring lumbar disc surgery can be successfully treated by this method. During the past two years, percutaneous discectomy has spread rapidly, and it is now performed in most clinical departments engaged in spinal surgery. The first International Symposium on Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy, held in Berlin in August 1988, cove

Overview: A readable and integrated narrative of events and Developments in England, Scotland and Ireland in the 60s something never before attempted in one book and in this depth. Provides a new insight into tThe 1640s were one of the most exciting and bloody decades in British and Irish history.This book interweaves the narrative threads in each theatre of conflict to provide an holistic account and analysis of the wars in and between England, Scotland and Ireland, from the Covenanter Rebellion to the execution of Charles I..Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49.- stresses t

Overview: This book introduces computer-based testing, addressing both nontechnical and technical considerations. The material is oriented toward practitioners and graduate students. The practical emphasis will be useful to measurement professionals who are or will be responsible for implementing a computerized testing program. The instructional information is also designed to be suitable for a one-semester graduate course in computerized testing in an educational measurement or quantitative methods program. While certain theoretical concepts are addressed, the focus of the book is on the appl

Overview: Covers best practices to build event-driven services.Contains use cases on how to migrate from a monolith to an event-driven microservices architecture.Discusses different frameworks of Command Query .In the simplest terms, event-driven architectures are like onions; they are manageable as a single layer (like a monolith) but when you get into them, they begin to cascade apart and you quickly realize that there are many complex layers (distributed microservices architecture). And that’s when the tears begin..This prescriptive guide takes you through the steps of moving a platform wit

Overview: Empowers citizen developers and power users to build applications and automate their work.Provides “Try It” sections in each chapter so you can practice what you have learned.Shows you how to combine Become a self-sufficient citizen developer by learning the tools within the Microsoft Power Platform and how they can be used together to drive change and multiply your productivity. Learn about PowerApps for building applications, Power Automate for automating business processes across those applications, and Power BI for analyzing results and communicating business intelligence through