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A fascinating and entirely original work about the role played in prosecutions by the Cyprus Attorney General's Office. It is based on data gathered using an array of methods including observation, documentary survey and interviews with relevant personnel.

This second addendum to the dictionary's fifth edition contains all new names published between 2006 and 2008, as well as corrections and amendments to earlier editions. As the IAU's official reference, it is full of fascinating yet authoritative information.

From tilings to quasicrystal structures, from surfaces to the n-dimensional approach, this book offers a comprehensive, self-contained, in-depth account of the crystallography of quasicrystals. Coverage includes the new field of photonic quasicrystals.

This book reviews recent developments in the field of polarons, starting with the basics and covering a number of active directions of research. It integrates theory and experimental results.

From the basics of optical emission and absorption, to detailed descriptions of fabrication technologies and applications of optoelectronic integrated circuits, this book concentrates on silicon and synthesizes topics from optoelectronics and microelectronics.

This practical book details the typical dynamical behavior of cracked shafts and presents tests for detecting them. It describes how to model cracks as well as how to simulate dynamical behavior of cracked shafts, and it provides many illustrative examples.

With an emphasis on controlled and constructive chaos, this concise primer for postgraduates skillfully leads the reader through the algorithms of chaos control, and then tackles synchronization in chaotic systems, stochastic resonance and ratchet models.

This book presents the state of the art concerning the fundamental aspects of semi-solid processing of alloys and composites, together with the industrial applications. It gives particular consideration to recent developments in slurry formation.

This book demonstrates that classical micro- and macroeconomics can be synthesized into a coherent whole from the perspective of formal model building as well as applied Leontief-Stone systems of national accounts and the input-output approaches built on them.

Reynolds stl"Css models (Chapter 4) require a preliminary consideration of two-point turbulence concepts which are developed in Chapter 3 devoted to homogeneous turbulence.

One of the great pioneers of the computer age, Konrad Zuse created the first stored-program computer in 1941 and continued to build machines for a quarter-century, as well as writing books and articles. Filled with fascinating asides, this work is his autobiography.

The cognitive decision support system (DSS) provides excellent insight into the research and development of business intelligence. This volume presents current DDS technologies and the fundamentals that support them, in a systematic way.

Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented.

This reference offers both a basic introduction and advanced technical details of available mathematical and computing methods for modeling sustainable development, closing an exisiting gap in this field, as well as illustrating their use through case studies and examples.

Classical Methods of Statistics is a guidebook combining theory and practical methods. In the second part, two major case studies are presented which exemplify the areas of discriminant analysis and multivariate profile analysis, respectively.

'Tensile Fracturing in Rocks' presents field observations on fracturing of sedim- tary rocks and granite outcrops from various provinces in three continents. The chapter touches also upon other fracture properties, e.g., crack nucleation, dynamic fracturing and slow fracturing processes.

This book describes microbially induced sedimentary structures as a new group in the classification of primary sedimentary structures. These are vital for understanding early Earth, and offer important biosignatures in the search for life on other planets.

This text offers a thorough, modern introduction to commutative algebra. It concentrates on concepts and results at the center of the field while keeping a constant view on the natural geometrical context. It includes many examples and exercises.

In the field of genetic and evolutionary algorithms (GEAs), a large amount of theory and empirical study has been focused on operators and test problems, while problem representation has often been taken as given.

While the idea of a population as a dynamic unit of evolution has been widely accepted, the signi?cance of genetic stability and its implications for the long-term survival of populations and species have not been fully appreciated.

Chapter 4 treats sigma martingales (important in finance theory) and gives a more comprehensive treatment of martingale representation, including both the Jacod-Yor theory and Emery's examples of martingales that actually have martingale representation (thus going beyond the standard cases of Brownian motion and the compensated Poisson process).

This book provides a unified account of the electrochemical material science of metal chalcogenide (MCh) compounds and alloys with regard to their synthesis, processing and applications. It is the first book dedicated to this subject.

This fourth edition on economic dynamics is the premier source on dynamic mathematical tools for economists, with illustrations from many areas of current economic research. It presents the most advanced areas of nonlinear dynamics in a readable manner.

This book presents the technical challenges offered by P2P systems, and the means that have been proposed to address them. It provides a single source for practitioners, researchers and students on the state-of-the-art on this subject.

This book considers the inter-relations between plants and minerals in an entirely new way. It does so by introducing the notion of eco-engineering: i.e. the manipulation of the mineral world by the living world to the ends of the living world.