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hypergeometrischen Differentialgleichungen.

Advancements in digital sensor technology, digital image analysis techniques, as well as computer software and hardware have brought together the fields of computer vision and photogrammetry, which are now converging towards sharing, to a great extent, objectives and algorithms.

The present monograph is devoted to the theory of general parabolic boundary value problems. Wishing to make the monograph more informative, we included in Chapter VI a survey of results in the theory of the Cauchy problem and boundary value problems in the traditional spaces of smooth functions.

The articles, both theoretical and numerical, encompass a wide range of applications, such as nonlinear waves in solids, various computational fluid dynamics from small-scale combustion to relativistic astrophysical problems, multiphase phenomena and geometrical optics.

The importance of this cytokine release is evident from both diagnostic and thera peutic (mostly experimental) studies, and the action of cytokines may be the key to our understanding of the pathophysiology of the sepsis syndrome.

Recent climatic shifts, based on mild winters and more hot summers have released vegetation shifts all over the world. The book presents numerous case studies from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Caucasus, Italy, Ireland, China, Japan, United Staes, Brazil and Chile.

13th International Chromosome Conference, Numana, Ancona, Italy 1998

What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? We need the kind of science that can live up to this need for univer sality, the kind of science that can answer these questions.

S. Ren and E.J. Lien: CaCo-2 cell permeability vs human gastrointestinal absorption: QSPR analysis.- J.C.G. Halford and J.E. Blundell: Pharmacology of appetite suppression.- B. Olivier, W. Soudijn and I. van Wijngaarden: Serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine transporters in the central nervous system and their inhibitors.- D. Poyner, H. Cox, M. Bushfield, J.M. Treherne and M.K. Demetrikopoulos: Neuropeptides in drug research.- M. Kumari and M.K. Ticku: Regulation of NMDA receptors by ethanol.- H. Horikoshi, T. Hashimoto and T. Fujiwara: Troglitazone and emerging glitazones: new avenues for potential therapeutic benefits beyond glycemic control.- Rosamund C. Smith and Simon J. Rhodes: Applications of developmental biology to medicine and animal agriculture

From the reviews: "The text is almost self-contained and requires only an elementary knowledge of probability theory at the graduate level. Furthermore, some selected chapters can be used as sub-textbooks for advanced courses on stochastic processes, quantum theory and quantum chemistry."

The monograph is devoted to the study of functional equations with the transformed argument on the real line and on the unit circle.

FOREWORD This book came about as a result of two events: an exhibition on the Solvay Physics Councils, held in Brussels in May 1995, and a conference on the same theme which took place at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) on May 1Oth 1995.

Let us Iist some of the most important ones: - harmonic maps between Riemannian and Kahlerian manifolds - minimal surfaces in Riemannian manifolds - Monge-Ampere equations on Kahler manifolds - Yang-Mills equations in vector bundles over manifolds.

The annual Operator Theory conferences, organized by the Department of Mathematics of INC REST and the University of Timi?oara, are intended to promote cooperation and exchange of information between specialists in all areas of operator theory.

10 in denen meine Beobachtungen meine Schlüsse zu stützen scheinen. Aber ich achte das Urteil des Lesers und will ihn nicht zwingen oder auf irgendeine unsaubere Weise dazu bringen, meine Schlüsse anzu­ nehmen. Natürlich erheben die hier gebotenen Ansichten keinen Anspruch auf Endgültigkeit. Ich könnte in der Tat eine Reihe von Stellen ange­ ben, wo ich klar empfinde, daß eine größere oder kleinere Verbesse­ rung am Platz wäre. Ich glaube jedoch, daß die Hauptrichtung richtig ist, und ich hoffe, daß die Ausführungen und vor allem die Beispiele in diesem Werk dazu beitragen mögen, die «Doppelnatun und die «komplementären Aspekte) plausiblen, insbesondere induktiven Schließens, zu erhellen, das zuweilen als «objektiv) und zuweilen als «subjektiv) erscheint. Stanford University Georg P6lya Mai 1953 VORWORT ZUR ZWEITEN AUFLAGE Die vorliegende zweite Auflage wurde erweitert durch einen An­ hang. Dieser enthält einen Aufsatz «Heuristische Schlußweisen in der Zahlentheorie), entnommen dem American Mathematical Monthly mit der Genehmigung des herausgebenden Vereins, und zusätzliche Bemerkungen und Aufgaben zu verschiedenen Kapiteln. Herzlichen Dank Fräulein Dr. A. Roth für die gewissenhafte Über­ setzung und Frau H. Bretscher für freundliche Hilfe.

In July 1994, the Canadian Inflammation Society in Toronto hosted a symposium entitled "Novel molecular approaches to anti-inflammatory therapy" as a satellite of the xnth International Congress of Pharmacology.

Earlier efforts in the field of thermal analysis were concerned with the demonstration of the applicability of techniques to a broad spectrum of materials and to establish the relationship of such techniques with other more accepted methods.

Pure and applied stochastic analysis and random fields form the subject of this book. The collection of articles on these topics represent the state of the art of the research in the field, with particular attention being devoted to stochastic models in finance. Some are review articles, others are original papers;

These notes are based on lectures given in the semmar on "Coding Theory and Algebraic Geometry" held at Schloss Mickeln, Diisseldorf, November 16-21, 1987. In 1982 Tsfasman, Vladut and Zink, using algebraic geometry and ideas of Goppa, constructed a seqeunce of codes that exceed the Gilbert-Varshamov bound. The result was considered sensational. Furthermore, it was surprising to see these unrelated areas of mathematics collaborating. The aim of this course is to give an introduction to coding theory and to sketch the ideas of algebraic geometry that led to the new result. Finally, a number of applications of these methods of algebraic geometry to coding theory are given. Since this is a new area, there are presently no references where one can find a more extensive treatment of all the material. However, both for algebraic geometry and for coding theory excellent textbooks are available. The combination ofthe two subjects can only be found in a number ofsurvey papers. A book by C. Moreno with a complete treatment of this area is in preparation. We hope that these notes will stimulate further research and collaboration of algebraic geometers and coding theorists. G. van der Geer, J.H. van Lint Introduction to CodingTheory and Algebraic Geometry PartI -- CodingTheory Jacobus H. vanLint 11 1. Finite fields In this chapter we collect (without proof) the facts from the theory of finite fields that we shall need in this course.

Der vorliegende 48. Band der Reihe «Fortschritte der Arzneimittelfor­ schung» enthält acht Beiträge, die wiederum von anerkannten Forschern verfasst wurden. Ausserdem sind auch in diesem Band ein Stichwortver­ zeichnis des Bandes sowie ein Autoren-und Titelverzeichnis und ein Titel­ verzeichnis aller 48 Bände enthalten. Der Leser hat dadurch die Mög­ lichkeit, nicht nur den vorliegenden Band zu konsultieren, sondern auch alle bisher erschienenen Bände quasi als enzyklopädisches N achschla­ gewerk zu benutzen. Da alle Beiträge umfangreiche Literaturnachweise enthalten, ist die Möglichkeit des Zugriffes auf Original-Publikationen gegeben, was dem aktiven Forscher besonders wichtig ist und seinen eige­ nen Arbeiten Impulse geben kann. Die Artikel des 48. Bandes behandeln neue Entwicklungen der Genetik, der enzymatischen Herstellung von komplexen Peptiden und bringen die neuesten Erkenntnisse der Apoptose unserem Verständnis näher. Immun­ therapie bei Hirnerkrankungen und psychischen Störungen, der Einsatz vonNaturproduktenzur Vorbeugung von Krebserkrankungen, das beun­ ruhigende Anwachsen der Arzneimittelresistenz, die Mannigfaltigkeit der Dopamin-Rezeptor-Wirkung und die faszinierende Darstellung einer grösseren Gruppe von neuartigen Nukleosiden als Arzneimittel runden den vorliegenden Band der «Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung» ab und bieten dem Leser viel Neuartiges und Interessantes.

Inhibition of the proton pump in the parietal cells has been established as the main therapeutic principle in the treatment of acid-related diseases, such as peptic ulcer and gastro-oesophageal reflux.

The accumulation of white blood cells is a hallmark of inflammation. The penetra­ tion through the vessel walls and the infiltration around the inflammatory stimulus is a complex process which involves active adherence and directed migration of the inflammatory cells. Chemotactic factors stimulate both adherence and migration. Technical tools such as the Boyden chamber [1] made it possible to study leukocyte migration in vitro. This technique allows differentiation between migration direct­ ed towards a chemotactic stimulus and non-directed migration. Until a decade ago only two naturally occurring molecules had been clearly iden­ tified as potent chemotactic attractants of neutrophilic granulocytes. They were the split product of the fifth complement component C5a [2] and the arachidonic acid metabolite leukotriene B4 [3]. In 1986, a novel human monocyte-derived chemo­ taxin attracting neutrophilic granulocytes with a similar potency was found [4]. This report was quickly confirmed by several groups [5-8]. The new factor was purified, cloned and sequenced [9, 10]. The term "interleukin 8" (IL-8) replaced the various names proposed previously [4-8]. Sequence data revealed that IL-8 belonged to a large family of chemotactic cytokines, now called "chemokines" [11]. Four subfamilies were distinguished on the basis of the number and position of the first cysteine residues. They are desig­ nated accordingly as C, CC, CXC and CX C chemokines [11-13]. The number of 3 human chemokines identified so far is close to 40 [11-13].