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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, WoLLIC 2015, held in the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA in July 2015.The 14 contributed papers, presented together with 8 invited lectures and 4 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The focus of the workshop was on interdisciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Das Buch behandelt die Bereiche Analysis, Analytische Geometrie sowie Stochastik, wie sie im Lehrplan der beruflichen Oberschule Fachrichtung Technik und Nichttechnik für die Klassen 11 bis 13 im bayrischen Lehrplan vorgegeben sind. Es ist damit nicht nur für Prüfungsvorbereitungen bestens geeignet, sondern bereitet den Leser auch durch einen der Hochschulmathematik ähnlichen Stil bestens auf das Studium vor. Ergänzend zur formalen Darstellung von Definitionen und Sätzen werden diese meist ausführlich verbal erläutert und durch eine Vielzahl von Abbildungen illustriert. Formale Beweise werden dann gegeben, wenn sie beispielhaften Charakter besitzen, ansonsten wird konsequent anschaulich argumentiert. Auf ideale Art und Weise baut das Buch die Brücke zwischen Schul- und Hochschul-Mathematik und ist damit sowohl als Repetitorium (für Schüler) wie auch als Brückenkurs bzw. Begleitlektüre für das erste Studiensemester bestens geeignet.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 416 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The overall structure of this new edition is three-tier: Part I presents the basics, Part II is concerned with methodological issues, and Part III discusses advanced topics. In the second edition the authors have reorganized the material to focus on problems, how to represent them, and then how to choose and design algorithms for different representations. They also added a chapter on problems, reflecting the overall book focus on problem-solvers, a chapter on parameter tuning, which they combined with the parameter control and 'how-to' chapters into a methodological part, and finally a chapter on evolutionary robotics with an outlook on possible exciting developments in this field.The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in artificial intelligence and computational intelligence, and for self-study by practitioners and researchers engaged with all aspects of bioinspired design and optimization.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 304 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book argues that democracy is the inevitable product of China's industrialization and modernization, and is necessary for the development of China's current society. It provides a political guarantee for China's industrialization and modernization. There are both similarities and differences between China's version of democracy and those versions of other countries. In this book, the author discusses the country's important experiences in constructing democracy with Chinese characteristics, which it has gathered during the long struggle for national independence, prosperity and social development. The democracy system embodies basic values and universal principles of democracy with uniquely Chinese characteristics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Process-Aware Systems, PAS 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2014. The 5 revised full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process modeling and comparison; workflow scheduling and resource allocation; scientific workflow verification; workflow applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 124 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the world¿s first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical features of translational Chinese in English-to-Chinese translation ¿ a significant contribution to Descriptive Translation Studies. The research findings based on these two distinctly different languages have important implications for universal translation research on the European tradition.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book introduces the new China (Shanghai) Free-Trade Zone one year after its launch. It examines in depth the economic, strategic and political effects of Chinese economic and financial reform. The results of the analysis are further clarified by comparing Shanghai with analogous counterparts in Singapore and Hong Kong. China has developed a number of special and free-trade zones but the new Pilot Shanghai FTZ includes all previous privileges promoting the area as perfect hub for the Asia-Pacific region. This work represents a valuable business guide for appraising new opportunities in the most promising sectors for business enterprises in China.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Presenting a wealth of highly original and innovative analyses and case studies, this book examines the strategic ties between various emerging economies, their different approaches to finding mutual trade solutions, and new trends in the use of contingent protection. The research methodology can also be applied to the study of specific Latin American countries or other developed or developing states in comparison to China. The book presents new theories and offers a valuable template for further studies in this area. Further, the application of the New Haven approach can further develop the studies' potential to offer guidance in a broader context.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book discusses both the beneficial and harmful aspects of NO in biology and medicine, and also introduces the emerging discovery of artemisinin in antitumor, antibacterial infection, anti-inflammation, and antiaging contexts. In 1992 nitric oxide (NO) was voted ¿Molecule of the Year¿ by Science magazine, and the discovery of its physiological roles has led to Nobel Prize-winning work in neuroscience, physiology and immunology. The book explains why we should maintain a steady-state NO level that is derived from neuronal or epithelial NO synthase, and avoid the extremely high NO level resulting from inducible NO synthase. The book offers a valuable resource for medical chemists, clinicians, biologists and all those interested in health and disease.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2014, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2015. The 23 revised full papers and 10 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 102 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: sidechannels; cryptography in the cloud; payment and fraud detection; authentication and access control; cryptographic primitives; mobile security; privacy and incentives; applications and attacks; authenticated data structures.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 588 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between grids, P2P systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments.This volume, the 21st issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, focuses on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Big Data, and contains extended and revised versions of eight papers selected as the best papers from the 14th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2012), held in Vienna, Austria, during September 3-6, 2012. These papers cover several advanced Big Data topics, ranging from data cube computation using MapReduce to multiple aggregations over multidimensional databases, from data warehousing systems over complex energy data to OLAP-based prediction models, from extended query engines for continuous stream analytics to popular pattern mining, and from rare pattern mining to enhanced knowledge discovery from large cross-document corpora.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The two-volume set LNCS 9134 and LNCS 9135 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015, held in Kyoto, Japan, in July 2015. The 143 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 507 submissions. The papers are organized in the following three tracks: algorithms, complexity, and games; logic, semantics, automata and theory of programming; and foundations of networked computation: models, algorithms and information management.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 760 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book deals with various aspects of commutants and reducing subspaces of multiplication operators on the Bergman space,along with relevant von Neumann algebras generated by these operators, which have been the focus of considerable attention from the authors and other expertsin recent years. The book reviews past developments and offers insights into cutting-edge developments in the study of multiplication operators. It also provides commentary and comparisons to stimulate research in this area.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 332 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on analysis and design problems for high-order linear time-invariant (LTI) swarm systems (multi-agent systems) to achieve consensus, formation, containment and formation-containment. As a first step, the concepts of practical consensus and formation-containment are introduced. Unlike previous research, the formation in this book can be time-varying. A general framework for consensus, consensus tracking, formation, containment and state formation-containment is presented for the first time.Sufficient/necessary and sufficient conditions, and approaches to designing the protocols for swarm systems to achieve these control objectives, are respectively proposed. Autonomous time-varying formation experiments using five quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are conducted in an outdoor setting to demonstrate the theoretical results.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This contributed volume includes both theoretical research on philosophical logic and its applications in artificial intelligence, mostly employing the concepts and techniques of modal logic. It collects selected papers presented at the Second Asia Workshop on Philosophical Logic, held in Guangzhou, China in 2014, as well as a number of invited papers by specialists in related fields. The contributions represent pioneering philosophical logic research in Asia.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Dieses Begleitbuch ist eine Bereicherung für alle Mathematik-Studenten, denen ihre Stochastik-Vorlesung den Angstschweiß auf die Stirn treibt ¿ für viele Studierende gehört diese Veranstaltung zu den unbeliebtesten überhaupt und wird zudem als besonders anspruchsvoll empfunden. Das vorliegende Begleitbuch ermöglicht es Studierenden, ihre Vorlesung besser zu verstehen, indem es den Fokus auf anschauliche Erläuterungen der zugrundeliegenden Konzepte und Ideen setzt. Es erhebt dabei ausdrücklich nicht den Anspruch, ein vollständiges Lehrbuch zu sein ¿ davon gibt es ja schon genügend. Die durchaus abstrakten maßtheoretischen Konzepte werden ¿ anders als in den meisten elementaren Stochastik-Lehrbüchern ¿ nicht vermieden, sondern ausführlich erklärt und anschaulich gemacht.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Positive Entwicklung - dieses Thema verweist auf Wohlbefinden, Zufriedenheit und Glück, zugleich aber auf die Notwendigkeit, diese Begriffe mit Aspekten gelingenden Lebens zu verbinden. Vorstellungen gelingenden Lebens bilden die Grundlage jeder Sozialisationspraxis, zugleich aber auch von Aktivitäten der Selbstentwicklung und Selbstkultivierung. Allerdings mischen sich in jeder Lebensgeschichte Erwünschtes und Unerwünschtes; gelingende Lebensführung schließt daher die Fähigkeit ein, widrige Lebensumstände zu überwinden und persönliche Ziele und Ansprüche auf Veränderungen im Lebens- und Entwicklungsverlauf abzustimmen.Von handlungs- und entwicklungstheoretischen Perspektiven ausgehend sichtet Jochen Brandtstädter in diesem Buch Ansätze zur Behandlung dieses Themenkomplexes. Neben aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen zu gelingender Lebensqualität und gelingenden Alterns werden Prozesse der Selbstregulation, der Zielverfolgung und flexiblen Zielanpassung, sowie Bedingungen des Lebensmanagements in modernen Entwicklungsumwelten behandelt - dabei kommen auch Themen wie Reue, Sehnsucht, Gelassenheit und Selbst-Transzendenz in den Blick. 324 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Positive Entwicklung - dieses Thema verweist auf Wohlbefinden, Zufriedenheit und Glück, zugleich aber auf die Notwendigkeit, diese Begriffe mit Aspekten gelingenden Lebens zu verbinden. Vorstellungen gelingenden Lebens bilden die Grundlage jeder Sozialisationspraxis, zugleich aber auch von Aktivitäten der Selbstentwicklung und Selbstkultivierung. Allerdings mischen sich in jeder Lebensgeschichte Erwünschtes und Unerwünschtes; gelingende Lebensführung schließt daher die Fähigkeit ein, widrige Lebensumstände zu überwinden und persönliche Ziele und Ansprüche auf Veränderungen im Lebens- und Entwicklungsverlauf abzustimmen.Von handlungs- und entwicklungstheoretischen Perspektiven ausgehend sichtet Jochen Brandtstädter in diesem Buch Ansätze zur Behandlung dieses Themenkomplexes. Neben aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen zu gelingender Lebensqualität und gelingenden Alterns werden Prozesse der Selbstregulation, der Zielverfolgung und flexiblen Zielanpassung, sowie Bedingungen des Lebensmanagements in modernen Entwicklungsumwelten behandelt - dabei kommen auch Themen wie Reue, Sehnsucht, Gelassenheit und Selbst-Transzendenz in den Blick.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Positive Entwicklung - dieses Thema verweist auf Wohlbefinden, Zufriedenheit und Glück, zugleich aber auf die Notwendigkeit, diese Begriffe mit Aspekten gelingenden Lebens zu verbinden. Vorstellungen gelingenden Lebens bilden die Grundlage jeder Sozialisationspraxis, zugleich aber auch von Aktivitäten der Selbstentwicklung und Selbstkultivierung. Allerdings mischen sich in jeder Lebensgeschichte Erwünschtes und Unerwünschtes; gelingende Lebensführung schließt daher die Fähigkeit ein, widrige Lebensumstände zu überwinden und persönliche Ziele und Ansprüche auf Veränderungen im Lebens- und Entwicklungsverlauf abzustimmen.Von handlungs- und entwicklungstheoretischen Perspektiven ausgehend sichtet Jochen Brandtstädter in diesem Buch Ansätze zur Behandlung dieses Themenkomplexes. Neben aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen zu gelingender Lebensqualität und gelingenden Alterns werden Prozesse der Selbstregulation, der Zielverfolgung und flexiblen Zielanpassung, sowie Bedingungen des Lebensmanagements in modernen Entwicklungsumwelten behandelt ¿ dabei kommen auch Themen wie Reue, Sehnsucht, Gelassenheit und Selbst-Transzendenz in den Blick.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 324 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Innovations in hardware architecture, like hyper-threading or multicore processors, mean that parallel computing resources are available for inexpensive desktop computers. In only a few years, many standard software products will be based on concepts of parallel programming implemented on such hardware, and the range of applications will be much broader than that of scientific computing, up to now the main application area for parallel computing.Rauber and Rünger take up these recent developments in processor architecture by giving detailed descriptions of parallel programming techniques that are necessary for developing efficient programs for multicore processors as well as for parallel cluster systems and supercomputers. Their book is structured in three main parts, covering all areas of parallel computing: the architecture of parallel systems, parallel programming models and environments, and the implementation of efficient application algorithms. The emphasis lies on parallel programming techniques needed for different architectures. For this second edition, all chapters have been carefully revised. The chapter on architecture of parallel systems has been updated considerably, with a greater emphasis on the architecture of multicore systems and adding new material on the latest developments in computer architecture. Lastly, a completely new chapter on general-purpose GPUs and the corresponding programming techniques has been added.The main goal of the book is to present parallel programming techniques that can be used in many situations for a broad range of application areas and which enable the reader to develop correct and efficient parallel programs. Many examples and exercises are provided to show how to apply the techniques. The book can be used as both a textbook for students and a reference book for professionals. The material presented has been used for courses in parallel programming at different universities for manyyears.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Distributed computing is at the heart of many applications. It arises as soon as one has to solve a problem in terms of entities -- such as processes, peers, processors, nodes, or agents -- that individually have only a partial knowledge of the many input parameters associated with the problem. In particular each entity cooperating towards the common goal cannot have an instantaneous knowledge of the current state of the other entities. Whereas parallel computing is mainly concerned with 'efficiency', and real-time computing is mainly concerned with 'on-time computing', distributed computing is mainly concerned with 'mastering uncertainty' created by issues such as the multiplicity of control flows, asynchronous communication, unstable behaviors, mobility, and dynamicity.While some distributed algorithms consist of a few lines only, their behavior can be difficult to understand and their properties hard to state and prove. The aim of this book is to present in a comprehensive way the basic notions, concepts, and algorithms of distributed computing when the distributed entities cooperate by sending and receiving messages on top of an asynchronous network. The book is composed of seventeen chapters structured into six parts: distributed graph algorithms, in particular what makes them different from sequential or parallel algorithms; logical time and global states, the core of the book; mutual exclusion and resource allocation; high-level communication abstractions; distributed detection of properties; and distributed shared memory. The author establishes clear objectives per chapter and the content is supported throughout with illustrative examples, summaries, exercises, and annotated bibliographies.This book constitutes an introduction to distributed computing and is suitable for advanced undergraduate students or graduate students in computer science and computer engineering, graduate students in mathematics interested in distributed computing, and practitioners and engineers involved in the design and implementation of distributed applications. The reader should have a basic knowledge of algorithms and operating systems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 532 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, indicators and frameworks for measuring sustainable development in the transportation sector are developed. In the second, the authors analyzeactual planning and decision-making in transportation agencies in a variety of governance settings. This analysis of real-world case studiesdemonstrates the benefits and limitations of current approaches to sustainable development in transportation. The book concludes with a discussion on how to make sustainability count in transportation decision-making and practice.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Das Buch vermittelt umfassende Grundlagen moderner Techniken des verteilten und parallelen Datenmanagements, die das Fundament moderner Informationssysteme bilden. Ausgehend von einer Betrachtung der Architekturvarianten, die sich aus verteilten sowie parallelen Hardwareinfrastrukturen ergeben, werden die Bereiche Datenverteilung, Anfrageverarbeitung sowie Konsistenzsicherung behandelt. Hierbei werden jeweils Verfahren und Techniken für klassische verteilte, parallele sowie moderne massiv-verteilte bzw. massiv-parallele Architekturen vorgestellt und hinsichtlich ihrer Eigenschaften diskutiert. Damit schlagen die Autoren die Brücke zwischen klassischen Verfahren und aktuellen Entwicklungen im Cloud- und Big Data-Umfeld.Springer Vieweg in Springer Science + Business Media, Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 46, 65189 Wiesbaden 396 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -¿Kohlendioxid ist eine bedeutende Verbindung in unserer Atmosphäre. Mit Wasser ergibt sie Kohlensäure und ist daher in allen Wässern zugegen. In welchem Ausmaß und in welcher Form Kohlendioxid im Wasser vorliegt, kann mit einfachen mathematischen Gleichungen berechnet werden. Wie diese Gleichungen hergeleitetund was damit ausgesagt werden kann, wird in diesem Buch an Hand von 3D-Grafiken ausführlich gezeigt und diskutiert. Die angegebenen Gleichungen können zur Berechnung von wasserchemischen Parametern herangezogen werden.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch erklärt im Detail und ohne Umschweife die spezielle sowie die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. Der erste Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit den Grundlagen der speziellen Relativitätstheorie und liefert Erklärungen für die berühmte Äquivalenz zwischen Masse und Energie. Außerdem wird erläutert, warum Einstein in der Lage war, die Theorie der Elektrodynamik als Vorlage für sein berühmten Text ¿Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper¿ zu nehmen, denn neben der Lichtgeschwindigkeit ist auch die elektrische Ladung absolut, was zur Relativität anderer physikalischer Größen führt.Anschließend wird dem Leser die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie näher gebracht. Es wird auf die spezielle Relativitätstheorie und das Äquivalenzprinzip Bezug genommen und erklärt, wie die Raum-Zeit unter Schwerkraft gekrümmt wird. Der Höhepunkt des Buchs besteht aus den Gravitationsgleichungen von Einstein, welche beschreiben, wie Materie die Raum-Zeit krümmt. Auch die berühmte Schwarzschild-Lösung, bekannte Effekte wie Lichtablenkung oder die Periheldrehung und das Friedmann-Modell des Urknalls sowie der Grund, weshalb die Gravitation nicht mit der Quantentheorie zusammenpasst, sind Bestandteil dieses Buchs.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg 184 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It presents models for continuous and categorical dependent variables, focusing either on the level of these variables at different points in time or on their change over time. It covers fixed and random effects models, models for change scores and event history models. All statistical methods are explained in an application-centered style using research examples from scholarly journals, which can be replicated by the reader through data provided on the accompanying website. As all models are compared to each other, it provides valuable assistance with choosing the right model in applied research. The textbook is directed at master and doctoral students as well as applied researchers in the social sciences, psychology, business administration and economics. Readers should be familiar with linear regression and have a good understanding of ordinary least squares estimation.¿Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 344 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation refines the 'Two Threads One Force' theoretical framework to make a basic judgment of the 'China model' for poverty alleviation. It also presents the rationale and plans for responding to new challenges to achieve poverty alleviation goals, which will enhance the welfare of the people and promote social progress and national prosperity.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of how metropolitan regions and their subsystems interact and compete, why they differ in their capacity to nurture innovation and growth, and how metropolitan policies must be designed to secure the region¿s long-term vitality. To that end, it presents new contributions on theories of urban growth, institutions and policies of urban change, and case studies of urban growth prepared by international experts.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 524 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book, the second of two volumes on the Gentianaceae, is devoted to aspects of biotechnology and their applications. It consists of 18 chapters and covers micropropagation by means of organogenesis or somatic embryogenesis, and single cell manipulation of various species belonging to the horticultural genera Blakstonia, Centaurium, Gentiana, Gentianalla and Swertia. Furthermore, the application of somatic cell hybridization, haploidization and genetic variation arising from tissue and organ culture for the production of plants with new horticultural traits, such as new flower colors or sizes, or with special pharmaceutical values, is treated in detail. Also discussed are molecular markers that facilitate breeding and cultivar identification, the preservation of genetic resources by cryopreservation, the postharvest physiology of cut Gentian flowers and potted plants, and different analytical methods for the evaluation of Gentians as sources of secondary metabolites, such as xanthones and flavonoids, secoiridoids and C-glucoflavonoids, and their positive impacts on human health.This volume as well as the companion book The Gentianaceae ¿ Volume 1: Characterization and Ecology will serve as key reference works for scientists and students in the fields of botany, plant breeding, biotechnology and horticulture, as well as professional gardeners.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 480 pp. Englisch.