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With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, ecology and vegetation science.

Spontaneous pattern formation in nonlinear dissipative systems far from equilibrium occurs in a variety of settings in nature and technology, and has applications ranging from nonlinear optics through solid and fluid mechanics, physical chemistry and chemical engineering to biology.

This selection of papers includes material on cutting-edge developments in the field of learning and teaching second and foreign languages. It covers a huge range of topics from the sociocultural aspects of language acquisition to classroom-oriented research.

This study focuses on territorial autonomy, often used in conflict-resolution and minority situations. The text provides a comparative analysis of the constitutional law that regulates the position of six current territorial autonomies.

This volume describes the implementation of autonomous control with multiagent technology. The text tackles the challenges of supply network management caused by the complexity, the dynamics, and the distribution of logistics processes.

Leadership or Chaos provides a self-contained text in political economy dealing with social choice. Theory and empirical analysis are used to examine democratic institutions in the developed world, and the success or failure of democratization in under-developed countries.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, and vegetation science.

This book gives a detailed overview on this new and exciting field at the boundary of physics and chemistry. Laser-induced ultrafast molecuar dynamics is presented for many textbook-like examples of model molecules and clusters.

Addressed to both students as a learning text and scientists/engineers as a reference, this book discusses the physics and applications of quantum-well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs).

A revised introduction to the advanced analysis of block Toeplitz operators including recent research. Topics range from the analysis of locally sectorial matrix functions to Toeplitz and Wiener-Hopf determinants. This will appeal to both graduate students and specialists in the theory of Toeplitz operators.

There has been increased interest in continuous-time Principal-Agent models and their applications. This monograph surveys results of the theory using the approach of the so-called Stochastic Maximum Principle, in models driven by Brownian Motion.

This book offers a thorough overview of modeling techniques, basic modeling methods, and modeling solutions. Part I explains basic modeling concepts based on analytical methods. Part II introduces and explains simulation methods for solving research problems.

The book describes the modern theory of light hydrogen-like systems. New theoretical approaches are described and explained. The book contains derivation of many theoretical results obtained in recent years. A complete set of all theoretical results for the energy levels of hydrogen-like bound states is presented.

This book probes the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used - or not - in decision-making in society and in elected bodies; in elections to and within such chambers; and in the resulting forms of governance.

This valuable compendium of statistical methods features a unique combination of methodology, theory, algorithms and applications. It covers recently developed approaches to handling large and complex data sets, including the Lasso and boosting methods.

This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. It compares and contrasts the characteristics and formation of sand dunes on Earth, Mars and Titan.

Bringing together the fields of geodesy and environmental studies, this book presents the concepts of GNSS in a simplified way that can, on the one hand, be understood and utilised by environmentalists, while on the other, outlines its potential applications to environmental monitoring and management for those engaged more with its technology.

The field of optimal transport has made breathtaking forays into various other domains of mathematics. This book presents a broad overview of this area. PhD students or researchers can read the entire book without any prior knowledge of the field.

In other words, we produce models that are useful for planning within a supply chain rather than models for planning the supply chain.

This book presents basic techniques for designing low power RF CMOS analogue circuits, offering a set of alternatives to optimize power consumption and explaining the application of these rules in the most common RF building blocks: LNA, mixers and PLLs.

This book focuses not only on the nature and origin of ore deposits but also explores the economic issues that surround the exploitation of mineral resources. Coverage includes demand from developing nations, exploitation and exhaustion of resources and more.

The first current, self-contained presentation of the newly discovered structure of the Schroedinger-Virasoro algebra, this book explains the role this algebra of non-relativistic conformal symmetries plays in some models of non-equilibrium statistical physics.

Examining various schemes to implement artificial intelligence techniques in agents, this book proposes a general conceptual framework for the development of automation in human-agent environments that will help human-agent teams to work more effectively.

Karl Gustafson was given just two weeks to write the first US spy satellite's software. The project would fundamentally alter America's Cold War strategy, and this autobiographical account of a remarkable academic tells this fascinating inside story for the first time.

This book explores a framework for carrying out rigorous comparisons of grammar formalisms in terms of their usefulness for applications. It focuses on three areas: statistical parsing, natural language translation and biological sequence analysis.

Optimization of adaptive signal processing algorithms for wireless communications is based on a model of the underlying propagation channel. In practice, this model is never known perfectly. For example, its parameters have to be estimated and are only known with significant errors.

This concise survey describes the requirements on materials operating in high-temperature environments and the processes that increase the temperature capability of metals, ceramics, and composites. The major part deals with the applicable materials and their specific properties, with one entire chapter devoted to coatings.