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Sport in unserem Sinn ist Bewegung, steht also ausnahmslos in Beziehung zum aktiven und passiven Bewegungsapparat. Physische Aktivität-nur sie­ beeinflußt nach der Geburt dessen normale morphologische und funktionelle Entwicklung, seine Erhaltung, die Hintanhaltung vorzeitiger Rückbildung, oft auch die Entwicklung und Ausbreitung pathologischer Prozesse. Andererseits kann jedoch die Belastung im Sport im Sinne von Über­ lastungen, Fehlleistungen - unter anderem auch durch mangelhafte Sport­ geräte und anderes mehr- oder aber von eigentlichen Unfallsereignissen zu Schädigungen führen. Unsere heutige Zivilisation - oft in Anführungs­ zeichen zu setzen - hat aber auch zur Folge, daß das Gebiet der Rehabili­ tation von Schäden infolge unserer technischen Entwicklung, unseres Verkehrs oder von Gewalteinwirkungen zu immer größerer Bedeutung gelangt. Normale und pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und Pathologie des Bewegungsapparates sind deshalb zentrale Gebiete, die nicht nur für den Arzt, sondern auch für den Sportlehrer Bestandteile seiner Kenntnisse sein müssen. Dr. phil. et med. Rudolf Boeckh, der speziell vom Gebiet der Neurologie her besonders mit den Dingen vertraut ist, hat es in verdankens­ werter Weise in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Rolf Albonico, Hochschul­ sportlehrer in St. Gallen, übernommen, eine Darstellung der Pathologie der Bewegungsorgane zu geben. In Ergänzung zu unserem Lehrbuch «Sport­ biologie» soll der neue Beitrag in der Schriftenreihe der Eidg. Turn- und Sportschule Magglingen vor allem dem Sportlehrer und dem Trainer in seiner Arbeit behilflich sein. Magglingen, im Mai 1970 Prof. Dr. G. Schönholzer 9 Einleitung Der vorliegende Leitfaden soll dem Sportlehrer zum Verständnis der Ur­ sachen von Störungen im Ablaufder Körperbewegungen dienen.

This collection of recently published and refereed papers comes from workshops and colloquia held over the last two years. The papers describe the development of command and control systems, military communications systems, information systems, surveillance systems, autonomous vehicles, simulators, and HCI.

Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This book examines Leonardo's knowledge of theoretical mathematics, explores how he used concepts of geometry in his designs for architectural projects, and reports on a real-life construction project using Leonardo's principles.

This book reports on the results achieved in this area, discusses the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains and society, and also provides a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future to make the deployment of health-care agent-based systems a reality.

Written by leading scientists and researchers, this book presents a comprehensive reference of state-of-the-art efforts and early results in the area of autonomic networking and communication. In particular, the book has three main parts, each of them represented by three papers discussing them from industrial and academic perspectives.

Discover the latest developments and issues in multi-agent systems by exploring their applications in various domains such as electronic markets, e-tourism, ambience intelligence, and complex system analysis. With their practical focus, they help you see how agent technology can be applied in many new services and environments.

This issue is dedicated to Mechanics in Architecture. It explores the latest findings in the science of structural mechanics, including the behavior of structures, internal forces, and deformation. It also explores the development of new structural systems designed to resist thrusts resulting from new architectural forms.

This book contains a collection of selected and revised papers originally presented at the Workshop on Emerging Web Service Technology (WEWST) held in conjunction with the 4th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'06) in Zurich, Switzerland, December 2006.

This book provides the Agent-Modeling Language (AML), a comprehensive modeling language as an extension of UML 2.0, concentrating on multi-agent systems and applications.

It introduces market theory and computational economics together, and gives an overview on the most common and up-to-date agent-based simulation methods. The book will help the reader learn more about simulations in economics in general and common agent-based methods and tools in particular.

Such principles not only provide an order for the formal elements, they ground the architecture in timeless values and provide an order for the formal elements, they ground the architecture in timeless values and provide a source of cultural meaning.

Leonardo da Vinci described the arch as "two weaknesses which, leaning on each other, become a strength," a metaphor for the way that science and art lean on each other to strengthen our lives.

This book consists of reviewed original research papers and expository articles in index theory (especially on singular manifolds), topology of manifolds, operator and equivariant K-theory, Hopf cyclic cohomology, geometry of foliations, residue theory, Fredholm pairs and others, and applications in mathematical physics.

This book provides the first comprehensive and complete overview on results and methods concerning normal frames and coordinates in differential geometry. Practically all existing essential results and methods concerning normal frames and coordinates can be found in the book.

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems.

Several important problems arising in Physics, Di?erential Geometry and other n topics lead to consider semilinear variational elliptic equations on R and a great deal of work has been devoted to their study.

Presenting several developments in the theory of hyperbolic equations, this book's contributions deal with questions of low regularity, critical growth, ill-posedness, decay estimates for solutions of different non-linear hyperbolic models, and introduce new approaches based on microlocal methods.

Devoted to the quantum Hall effect. This volume proceeds with reviews on the mathematics and physics of both the integer and fractional case. It includes presentations of the tunneling and metrology experiments related to the quantum Hall effect. The book is of interest to physicists and mathematicians at professional or graduate student level.

This volume opens with a paper by V.P. Havin that presents a comprehensive survey of the work of mathematician S.Ya. It includes a complete bibliography, previously unpublished, of 163 items, and twelve peer-reviewed research and expository papers by leading mathematicians, including the joint paper by Khavinson and T.S.

Celebrates the work of the renowned mathematician Herbert Amann, who had a significant and decisive influence in shaping Nonlinear Analysis. Containing 32 contributions, this volume covers a range of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations, with applications to natural sciences and engineering.

There is a growing interest in the use of ontologies for multi-agent system app- cations. On the one hand, the agent paradigm is successfully employed in those applications where autonomous, loosely-coupled, heterogeneous, and distributed systems need to interoperate in order to achieve a common goal. On the other hand, ontologies have established themselves as a powerful tool to enable kno- edge sharing, and a growing number of applications have bene?ted from the use of ontologies as a means to achieve semantic interoperability among heterogeneous, distributed systems. In principle ontologies and agents are a match made in heaven, that has failed to happen. What makes a simple piece of software an agent is its ability to communicate in a ¿social¿ environment, to make autonomous decisions, and to be proactive on behalf of its user. Communication ultimately depends on und- standing the goals, preferences, and constraints posed by the user. Autonomy is theabilitytoperformataskwithlittleornouserintervention,whileproactiveness involves acting autonomously with no need for user prompting. Communication, but also autonomy and proactiveness, depend on knowledge. The ability to c- municate depends on understanding the syntax (terms and structure) and the semantics of a language. Ontologies provide the terms used to describe a domain and the semantics associated with them. In addition, ontologies are often comp- mented by some logical rules that constrain the meaning assigned to the terms. These constraints are represented by inference rules that can be used by agents to perform the reasoning on which autonomy and proactiveness are based.

This book gives a thorough and self contained presentation of H(1), its known isomorphic invariants and a complete classification of H(1) on spaces of homogeneous type. Complete proofs are given for the classical martingale inequalities, and for large deviation inequalities.

Topics include Columbeau algebras, ultra-distributions, partial differential equations, micro-local analysis, harmonic analysis, global analysis, geometry, quantization, mathematical physics, and time-frequency analysis.

This Festschrift volume, showcasing recent historical research by leading experts on three continents, offers a global perspective on important themes in this field.