Birkhäuser basel jun 2001 (10 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame and the high barriers to success for such an enterprise - differences in concepts and terminology, disciplinary myopia, and the inherent difficulty of the problem. In the USA, where I work, these barriers continue to pose major challenges after some 30 years of effort. Switzerland has made noteworthy progress in only five. I hope this book represents the beginning of a long term effort at problem-oriented interdisciplinary collaboration among Swiss researchers and prac titioners. The Swiss group has succeeded in developing a unifying framework that makes a major contri bution to environmental policy analysis. The framework broadens policy thinking by giving se rious treatment to underutilized strategies that rely on communication and informal influence as well as to well-studied ones that rely on technological change, regulation, and economic forces. This broad typology makes it easier for an analyst to escape the tendency to presume that the po licy instrument currently in fashion, whether it be market-based instruments, voluntary measures, or whatever, is the right strategy for all problems. It also encourages discipline-based analysts to consider how their favored strategies might be combined with other strategies less familiar to them, and thus to craft strategies that can take advantage of the strengths of various policy instruments. 368 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One of the most striking development of the last decades in the study of minimal surfaces, constant mean surfaces and harmonic maps is the discovery that many classical problems in differential geometry - including these examples - are actually integrable systems. This theory grew up mainly after the important discovery of the properties of the Korteweg-de Vries equation in the sixties. After C. Gardner, J. Greene, M. Kruskal et R. Miura [44] showed that this equation could be solved using the inverse scattering method and P. Lax [62] reinterpreted this method by his famous equation, many other deep observations have been made during the seventies, mainly by the Russian and the Japanese schools. In particular this theory was shown to be strongly connected with methods from algebraic geom etry (S. Novikov, V. B. Matveev, LM. Krichever. . . ), loop techniques (M. Adler, B. Kostant, W. W. Symes, M. J. Ablowitz . . . ) and Grassmannian manifolds in Hilbert spaces (M. Sato . . . ). Approximatively during the same period, the twist or theory of R. Penrose, built independentely, was applied successfully by R. Penrose and R. S. Ward for constructing self-dual Yang-Mills connections and four-dimensional self-dual manifolds using complex geometry methods. Then in the eighties it became clear that all these methods share the same roots and that other instances of integrable systems should exist, in particular in differential ge ometry. This led K. 122 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In September 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), prohibiting nuclear explosions worldwide, in all environments. The treaty calls for a global verification system, including a network of 321 monitoring stations distributed around the globe, a data communications network, an international data centre (IDC), and on-site inspections, to verify compliance. A global hydroacoustic monitoring system is being planned and implemented for verification of the CTBT. Much of the research conducted over the past several decades on acoustic surveillance of the oceans, formerly driven by the need to detect and track submarines, is now being applied to the development of effective monitoring methods to verify compliance with the CTBT. The aim of this volume on Hydroacoustic Monitoring of the CTBT is to summarize the research being conducted in this field and to provide basic references for future research. Much of the new research emphasizes major advances in understanding the coupling of ocean acoustic waves with elastic waves in the solid Earth. Topics covered include source excitation, detection and classification of events generating hydroacoustic signals, discrimination between underwater explosions and naturally occurring events, as well as topics in coupling of acoustic to seismic wavefields. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame and the high barriers to success for such an enterprise - differences in concepts and terminology, disciplinary myopia, and the inherent difficulty of the problem. In the USA, where I work, these barriers continue to pose major challenges after some 30 years of effort. Switzerland has made noteworthy progress in only five. I hope this book represents the beginning of a long term effort at problem-oriented interdisciplinary collaboration among Swiss researchers and prac titioners. The Swiss group has succeeded in developing a unifying framework that makes a major contri bution to environmental policy analysis. The framework broadens policy thinking by giving se rious treatment to underutilized strategies that rely on communication and informal influence as well as to well-studied ones that rely on technological change, regulation, and economic forces. This broad typology makes it easier for an analyst to escape the tendency to presume that the po licy instrument currently in fashion, whether it be market-based instruments, voluntary measures, or whatever, is the right strategy for all problems. It also encourages discipline-based analysts to consider how their favored strategies might be combined with other strategies less familiar to them, and thus to craft strategies that can take advantage of the strengths of various policy instruments.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 368 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains a collection of articles summarizing together the state of knowl edge in a broad portion of modern homotopy theory. These articles were assembled during 1998 and 1999, on the occasion of an emphasis semester organized by the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) and its highlight, the 1998 Barcelona Con ference on Algebraic Topology (BCAT). First of all, we are indebted to all the authors for submitting their work, and to the referees for their help in the selec tion and for their generous contribution to the content of the articles. Many talks given during the CRM semester or at the conference focused on aspects of the following topics: abstract stable homotopy, model categories, homotopical localizations and cellular approximations, p-compact groups, mod ules over the Steenrod algebra, classifying spaces for proper actions of discrete groups, K-theory and other generalized cohomology theories, cohomology of fi nite and profinite groups, Hochschild homology, configuration spaces, Lusternik Schnirelmann category, stable and unstable splittings. Other talks treated multi disciplinary subjects related to quantum field theory, differential geometry, homo topical dynamics, tilings, and various aspects of group theory. In addition, an advanced course on Classifying Spaces and Cohomology of Groups was organized by the CRM in the days preceding the conference. Lecture notes from this course will be published by Birkhauser Verlag as the first volume of a newly created CRM Advanced Course series. 415 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the treatment of infections caused by rapidly mutating viruses like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), combination therapy with multiple drugs act ing by different mechanisms offers several advantages over monotherapy. It may provide: synergistic effect, possible reduction of dosages and side-effects, and reduction of the chance of drug resistance. In the past few years, hun dreds of HIV protease inhibitors have been synthesized and tested in order to overcome the limitations of reverse transcriptase inhibitors like zidovudine and others. In this review, emphasis is placed on the development of HIV pro tease inhibitors as antiviral agents against HIY, and structure-activity rela tionship analysis of saquinavir and related compounds. Limitations of some protease inhibitors and ways to overcome the shortcomings are presented. Among these many protease inhibitors five have been marketed during 1995-1999. They are saquinavir, ritonavir, indinavir, nelfinavir and ampre navir. Their different structural features, important physicochemical, phar macokinetic and clinical profiles are presented in a table form for easy com parison. It is hoped that in the future new drugs based on additional mech anisms can be developed for the treatment of AIDS. Contents 4 1 Introduction . . HIV protease as a target for chemotherapy . . 2 5 Design of protease inhibitors . . 3 5 Basis of rational design of HIV protease inhibitors . . 3.1 5 New development of HIV protease inhibitors . . 6 3.2 HIV protease inhibitors on the market . . 20 4 20 4.1 SAR of saquinavir and related compounds . . 258 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Anwendung von Gentechnik bei Pflanzen ist in Europa nach wie vor umstritten. Ein zentrales Thema der Kontroverse sind die Auswirkungen auf die natürliche Umwelt und die Gesundheit der Verbraucher. Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet der ökologischen und gesundheitlichen Implikationen des Einsatzes gentechnisch veränderter Pflanzen und Mikroorganismen. In 19 Kapiteln werden grundlegende Bewertungskonzepte und gesetzliche Regelungen sowie allgemeine und mit speziellen Züchtungszielen verbundene Wirkungen auf dem aktuellen Stand des Wissens erörtert. Zusätzlich behandelt jedes Kapitel sowohl offene Fragen als auch Regulierungsoptionen. Abschließend werden Konzepte für ein anbaubegleitendes Monitoring besprochen. Informationen aus Risikostudien, botanischem Hintergrundwissen und landwirtschaftlicher Praxis sind in dieser Studie zusammengeführt, um Chancen und Risiken transgener Pflanzen unter Einbeziehung technischer Alternativen möglichst unvoreingenommen abzuwägen. 256 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die haptische Wahrnehmung ist von elementarer Bedeutung für die Planung,Steuerung und Ausführung alltäglicher Handlungen. Diese dem Tastsinnzugeordnete Wahrnehmungsform findet immer größere Beachtung. Mitaktuellen Ergebnissen aus interdisziplinärer Forschung und Praxisdokumentiert das Buch das zunehmende Interesse an diesem vielseitigenForschungsgebiet.Nach einer erkenntnistheoretischen und historischen Einführung widmensich drei Kapitel neurophysiologischen Grundlagen sowie psychologischenund klinisch-neuropsychologischen Aspekten der haptischen Wahrnehmung.Vielfältige Beispiele unter anderem aus der Automobil- undLebensmittelindustrie sowie der Raumfahrt verdeutlichen den praktischenNutzen der dargestellten Erkenntnisse. Das gut verständliche Buchgewährt Fachkundigen und Studenten, aber auch interessierten Laien einenEinblick in dieses faszinierende Wissensgebiet, das stets neueHerausforderungen entdeckt und innovative Lösungen präsentiert. 292 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Die Anwendung von Gentechnik bei Pflanzen ist in Europa nach wie vorumstritten. Ein zentrales Thema der Kontroverse sind die Auswirkungenauf die natürliche Umwelt und die Gesundheit der Verbraucher. DiesesBuch gibt einen Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet der ökologischen undgesundheitlichen Implikationen des Einsatzes gentechnisch veränderterPflanzen und Mikroorganismen.In 19 Kapiteln werden grundlegende Bewertungskonzepte und gesetzlicheRegelungen sowie allgemeine und mit speziellen Züchtungszielenverbundene Wirkungen auf dem aktuellen Stand des Wissens erörtert.Zusätzlich behandelt jedes Kapitel sowohl offene Fragen als auchRegulierungsoptionen. Abschließend werden Konzepte für einanbaubegleitendes Monitoring besprochen.Informationen aus Risikostudien, botanischem Hintergrundwissen undlandwirtschaftlicher Praxis sind in dieser Studie zusammengeführt, umChancen und Risiken transgener Pflanzen unter Einbeziehung technischerAlternativen möglichst unvoreingenommen abzuwägen.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 256 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Die haptische Wahrnehmung ist von elementarer Bedeutung für die PlanungSteuerung und Ausführung alltäglicher Handlungen. Diese dem Tastsinnzugeordnete Wahrnehmungsform findet immer größere Beachtung. Mitaktuellen Ergebnissen aus interdisziplinärer Forschung und Praxisdokumentiert das Buch das zunehmende Interesse an diesem vielseitigenForschungsgebiet.Nach einer erkenntnistheoretischen und historischen Einführung widmensich drei Kapitel neurophysiologischen Grundlagen sowie psychologischenund klinisch-neuropsychologischen Aspekten der haptischen Wahrnehmung.Vielfältige Beispiele unter anderem aus der Automobil- undLebensmittelindustrie sowie der Raumfahrt verdeutlichen den praktischenNutzen der dargestellten Erkenntnisse. Das gut verständliche Buchgewährt Fachkundigen und Studenten, aber auch interessierten Laien einenEinblick in dieses faszinierende Wissensgebiet, das stets neueHerausforderungen entdeckt und innovative Lösungen präsentiert.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 292 pp. Deutsch. …