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But other subjects also play an important role: homology theory, fibration theory (and characteristic classes in particular), and also branches of mathematics that are not directly a part of topology, but which use topological methods in an essential way: for example, the theory of indices of elliptic operators and the theory of complex manifolds.

It should be possible to manipulate the basic laws of regulation and the respective biochemi cal processes should be regarded as being independent of morpho logical processes of plant development.

The book provides the suitable theoretical logical background of lattice-valued logic systems and supports newly designed intelligent uncertain-information-processing systems and a wide spectrum of intelligent learning tasks.

This book offers a practical introduction to Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO), from the fundamentals to applications in e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, also describing its relation to related technology like OWL-S and WSDL-S. Also offers pointers to future research.

At a time when managers often provide fodder for unseemly headlines, and some are even compared unflatteringly with locusts, today's business leaders are called upon as never before to demonstrate the moral justification for their activities, and to ensure that it is understood by all the key stakeholders of a company.

Contains case studies from engineering and operations researchIncludes commented literature for each chapter

This exceptional work provides readers with an introduction to the state-of-the-art research on data warehouse design, with many references to more detailed sources.

This facilitates purely symbolic reasoning using the possible worlds and numeric reasoning via the probabilities of those possible worlds. The consequence is a unified mechanism which includes both symbolic and numeric mechanisms as special cases.

An axiomatic study of nonlinear maps (including multi-valued ones) is given, and the properties of resolving operators for systems, consisting of operator and differential-operator equations, are stated in nonlinear-map terms.

This book is devoted to an investigation of the vacuum of quantum elec trodynamics (QED), relying on the perturbative effective action approach. In the high energy domain, we observe similarities between a vacuum with a superstrong magnetic field and a magnetized plasma.

The book summarizes international progress over the last few decades in upper atmosphere airglow research. The book contains a detailed bibliography of studies related to the upper atmosphere airglow.

Of huge relevance in a number of fields, this is a survey of the different processes of soil clay mineral formation and the consequences of these processes concerning the soil ecosystem, especially plant and mineral. The first is the interaction of rocks and water, unstable minerals adjusting to surface conditions.

Space flight is a comprehensive and innovative part of technology. It provides an optimal reference with insight into the design, construction and analysis aspects of spacecraft. The emphasis of this book is put on unmanned space flight, particularly on the construction of spacecraft rather than the construction of launch vehicles.

This concise research monograph introduces and reviews the concept of chiral soliton models for baryons. The many applications shed light on a number of bayron properties, ranging from static properties via nuclear resonances to even heavy ion collisions.

Do virtual museums really provide added value to end-users, or do they just contribute to the abundance of images? These and other related questions are raised and answered in this book, the result of a long path across the digital heritage landscape.

This monograph addresses, in a systematic and pedagogical manner, the mathematical methods and the algorithms required to deal with the molecularly based problems of bioinformatics.

This comprehensive and interdisciplinary handbook provides a bird's-eye view of two centuries of research on secondary metabolites of the two large Solanales families, Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae.

This, the fourth edition of Stuwe's book on the calculus of variations, surveys new developments in this exciting field. Recently discovered results for backward bubbling in the heat flow for harmonic maps or surfaces are discussed.

The goal of this book is to demonstrate how to develop tailored, flexible working environments built from small programs (scripts) written in the easy-to-learn, high-level language Python. The focus is on applications relevant to computational scientists.

This mathematically-oriented introduction takes the point of view that students should become familiar, at an early stage, with the physics of relativistic continua and thermodynamics within the framework of special relativity.

The authors give an advanced treatment of macroeconomic topics such as the Phillips curve, forward and backward looking behavior, open economy macrodynamics, structural macroeconometric model building as well as the empirics of Keynesian oriented macro models.

This practice-oriented book introduces chemists, engineers and technicians to the strategies, techniques and efficiency of modern process analytical chemistry. The author targets in particular those professionals in SMEs who have to carry out process control tasks in a "solo-run".

Originally conceived as a technical manual, but now offering the reader so much more, this timely work deals with various aspects of geohazards - surely an area of growing importance in this world of global warming.

Unlike classical logic which requires a deep under standing of a system, exact equations, and precise numeric values, fuzzy logic incorporates an alternative way of thinking, which allows modeling complex systems using a higher level of abstraction originating from our knowledge and experience.

Hence the basic purpose of this book is to present an overview of uranium geology, data characteristic for uranium deposits, and a synthesis of these data in the form of a typological classification of uranium deposits supported by more detailed descriptions of selected uranium districts and deposits.

This classic approach explains the data at a level of 95 % precision. The authors explain data anomalies as a result of the discrepancies between spatial geodetical data and rigid kinematics in oceans. Data and its interpretation from various disciplines are pulled together in this book.

Superplasticity is the ability of polycrystalline materials under certain conditions to exhibit extreme tensile elongation in a nearly homogeneous/isotropic manner.

A systematic description of microelectronic device design. It also covers process and device issues as well as design issues relating to systems, circuits, devices and processes, such as signal-to-noise and redundancy.

The main focus of the book are the physical mechanisms behind the spontaneous formation of ordered nanostructures at semiconductor surfaces.