Springer springer jul 2001 (363 résultats)

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Project Mercury will offer a developmental resume of the first American manned spaceflight programme and its associated infrastructure, including accounts of space launch vehicles. The book highlights the differences in Redstone/Atlas technology, drawing similar comparisons between ballistic capsules and alternative types of spacecraft. The book also covers astronaut selection and training, as well as tracking systems, flight control, basic principles of spaceflight and detailed accounts of individual flights.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The SISDEP 93 conference proceedings present outstanding research and development results in the area of numerical process and device simulation. The miniaturization of today s semiconductor devices, the usage of new materials and advanced process steps in the development of new semiconductor technologies suggests the design of new computer programs. This trend towards more complex structures and increasingly sophisticated processes demands advanced simulators, such as fully three-dimensional tools for almost arbitrarily complicated geometries. With the increasing need for better models and improved understanding of physical effects, these proceedings support the simulation community and the process- and device engineers who need reliable numerical simulation tools for characterization, prediction, and development. This book covers the following topics: process simulation and equipment modeling, device modeling and simulation of complex structures, device simulation and parameter extraction for circuit models, integration of process, device and circuit simulation, practical applications of simulation, algorithms and software.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An original study of the internationally inspired effort to rebuild this war-torn African country. It seeks to understand the role of the international community in constructing a new kind of African state in the aftermath of conflict and socialism. At the heart of the book is the question of sustainability of the post-conflict African state against the backdrop of the multiple legacies of war, socialism, and regional and international intervention upon an enervated Mozambican society.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The broadband wireless communications field is growing at an explosive rate, stimulated by a host of important emerging applications ranging from 3G, 4G and wireless LAN. Wideband CDMA and CDMA2000 will be used for 3G. OFDM+CDMA might be a good choice for 4G, CDMA overlay will possibly be used for new-generation broadband wireless LAN. For system planners and designers, the projections of rapidly escalating demand for such wireless services present major challenges and meeting these challenges will require sustained technical innovation on many fronts. The text of this book has been developed through years of research by the author and his graduate students at the University of Hong Kong. The aim of this book is to provide a R&D perspective on the field of broadband wireless communications by describing the recent research developments in this area and also by identifying key directions in which further research is needed. As a background, I presume that the reader has a thorough understanding of digital communications and spread spectrum/CDMA. The book is arranged into 13 chapters. In chapter 1, some key specifications of 3G WCDMA are described and discussed. These techniques include channel coding, rate matching, modulation and spreading, power control, cell search, transmit diversity, soft-handoff, and so son. In Chapter 2, the coherent RAKE reception of Wideband CDMA signals with complex spreading is considered. A dedicated pilot channel, which is separate from data channels, is used for the purpose of channel estimation.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Solid state NMR is rapidly emerging as a universally applicable method for the characterization of ordered structures that cannot be studied with solution methods or diffraction techniques. This proceedings -; from a recent international workshop - captures an image of the latest developments and future directions for solid state NMR in biological research, particularly on membrane proteins. Detailed information on how hormones or drugs bind to their membrane receptor targets is needed, e.g. for rational drug design. Higher fields are bringing clear improvements, and the power of solid state NMR techniques for studying amorphous and membrane associated peptides, proteins and complexes is shown by examples of applications at ultra-high fields. Progress in protein expression, experimental design and data analysis are also presented by leaders in these research areas.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The 'First International Conference on Traditional Chinese Medicine: Science, Regulation and Globalization' was held from August 30 to September 2, 2000 at the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland. There were approximately 250 participants from the Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States. This objective of this conference was to promote international collaboration for the modernization of Traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCM) and their introduction into the global health care system. It was mainly sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China and the NllI National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). It was organized by Dr. William Tai, then director of the Institute of Global Chinese Affairs at the University of Maryland and Dr. Yuan Lin, president of Marco Polo Technologies, Bethesda, MD. This conference was conceived by Dr. Tai two years earlier recognizing that this was an appropriate time and also the unique location of the University of Maryland. Today, there is a growing recognition of the of alternative medicine in modem societies and the rapid loss of importance knowledge about traditional methods for the treatment of the multitude of human illnesses found throughout the world. TCM has been in common use in China for thousands of years; and many of its formulations are well defined.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Current cameras are poor imitations of the human eye and close descen dants in their design of ideas and a technology that are more than a century old. People in computer vision have traditionally used off-the-shelf cameras that were not meant for the uses they were intended for by these researchers: off-the-shelf cameras are designed to capture images to be printed on paper or looked at on a television screen, not for guiding robots or making 3D models of the environment or even surveilling a large area where very large field of views, high geometric and photometric accuracies are necessary. Quite a significant part of the efforts in computer vision has been targeted at overcoming algorithmically these problems. The authors of this book convince us that it is possible to abandon the traditional route of using standard cameras and to follow the path of designing new cameras explicitly for solving the tasks at hand in computer vision applications. This leads to different design concepts and allows to alleviate many of the difficulties encountered in the processing of the images taken with the 'traditional' cameras.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Faced with ever-increasing market demands, manufacturing industry is forced to seek innovation and technological breakthrough. This state-of-the-art text aims to integrate broad aspects of precision and production engineering to cope with rapid changes in market needs and technological developments as we enter the 21st century. It addresses basic theory, extensive research in advanced topics, industrial applications, and relevant surveys in related fields. Major subjects covered by this book include: Advanced manufacturing systems; Ultra-precision machining and micro machining; Nanotechnology for fabrication and measurement; Chemo-mechanical processes; Rapid prototyping technology; New materials and advanced processes; Computer-aided production engineering; Manufacturing process control; Planning. This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICPE), which was held in July 2001, in Yokohama, Japan. ICPE is a well-established conference in the field of production and precision engineering, covering a wide range of topics for future-oriented manufacturing systems and processes; it is organized by the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE). This book can be used as a reference for graduate and undergraduate courses in precision and production engineering, and also for researchers and industrial engineers to capture current trends in this field.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware 655 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware 655 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Eine Läsion des peripheren oder zentralen Nervensystems kann zu neuropathischen Schmerzen führen. Dabei kommt es entweder zu anhaltenden Schmerzen oder einschießenden Schmerzattacken. Auch sind spezielle Schmerzreaktionsmuster wie Allodynie oder Hyperpathie bzw. eine zentrale Sensibilisierung möglich. Klinische Krankheitsbilder, die mit neuropathischen Schmerzen einhergehen, sind u.a. Polyneuropathien, Zoster-Neuralgien, sowie zentrale Schmerzsyndrome.Das Buch beginnt mit der Darstellung des Erscheinungsbildes neuropathischer Schmerzen, das zweite Hauptkapitel umfasst die allgemeinen Therapiemöglichkeiten (besonders medikamentöse Therapie). Schließlich werden die klinischen Krankheitsbilder und die passende Therapieempfehlung angeführt.Das Buch stellt auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, aber sehr praxisorientiert das Gesamtbild neuropathischer Schmerzen dar, beginnend bei der Schmerzsymptomatik, über das klinische Krankheitsbild bis zu den relevanten 'evidence based' Therapiemaßnahmen. Der Käufer kann einerseits schwierige Sachverhalte nachlesen (umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis) und andererseits das Buch als therapeutisches Nachschlagwerk verwenden. 140 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Eine Läsion des peripheren oder zentralen Nervensystems kann zu neuropathischen Schmerzen führen. Dabei kommt es entweder zu anhaltenden Schmerzen oder einschießenden Schmerzattacken. Auch sind spezielle Schmerzreaktionsmuster wie Allodynie oder Hyperpathie bzw. eine zentrale Sensibilisierung möglich. Klinische Krankheitsbilder, die mit neuropathischen Schmerzen einhergehen, sind u.a. Polyneuropathien, Zoster-Neuralgien, sowie zentrale Schmerzsyndrome.Das Buch beginnt mit der Darstellung des Erscheinungsbildes neuropathischer Schmerzen, das zweite Hauptkapitel umfasst die allgemeinen Therapiemöglichkeiten (besonders medikamentöse Therapie). Schließlich werden die klinischen Krankheitsbilder und die passende Therapieempfehlung angeführt.Das Buch stellt auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, aber sehr praxisorientiert das Gesamtbild neuropathischer Schmerzen dar, beginnend bei der Schmerzsymptomatik, über das klinische Krankheitsbild bis zu den relevanten 'evidence based' Therapiemaßnahmen. Der Käufer kann einerseits schwierige Sachverhalte nachlesen (umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis) und andererseits das Buch als therapeutisches Nachschlagwerk verwenden. 140 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Eine Läsion des peripheren oder zentralen Nervensystems kann zu neuropathischen Schmerzen führen. Dabei kommt es entweder zu anhaltenden Schmerzen oder einschießenden Schmerzattacken. Auch sind spezielle Schmerzreaktionsmuster wie Allodynie oder Hyperpathie bzw. eine zentrale Sensibilisierung möglich. Klinische Krankheitsbilder, die mit neuropathischen Schmerzen einhergehen, sind u.a. Polyneuropathien, Zoster-Neuralgien, sowie zentrale Schmerzsyndrome.Das Buch beginnt mit der Darstellung des Erscheinungsbildes neuropathischer Schmerzen, das zweite Hauptkapitel umfasst die allgemeinen Therapiemöglichkeiten (besonders medikamentöse Therapie). Schließlich werden die klinischen Krankheitsbilder und die passende Therapieempfehlung angeführt.Das Buch stellt auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, aber sehr praxisorientiert das Gesamtbild neuropathischer Schmerzen dar, beginnend bei der Schmerzsymptomatik, über das klinische Krankheitsbild bis zu den relevanten 'evidence based' Therapiemaßnahmen. Der Käufer kann einerseits schwierige Sachverhalte nachlesen (umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis) und andererseits das Buch als therapeutisches Nachschlagwerk verwenden. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Eine Läsion des peripheren oder zentralen Nervensystems kann zu neuropathischen Schmerzen führen. Dabei kommt es entweder zu anhaltenden Schmerzen oder einschießenden Schmerzattacken. Auch sind spezielle Schmerzreaktionsmuster wie Allodynie oder Hyperpathie bzw. eine zentrale Sensibilisierung möglich. Klinische Krankheitsbilder, die mit neuropathischen Schmerzen einhergehen, sind u.a. Polyneuropathien, Zoster-Neuralgien, sowie zentrale Schmerzsyndrome. Das Buch beginnt mit der Darstellung des Erscheinungsbildes neuropathischer Schmerzen, das zweite Hauptkapitel umfasst die allgemeinen Therapiemöglichkeiten (besonders medikamentöse Therapie). Schließlich werden die klinischen Krankheitsbilder und die passende Therapieempfehlung angeführt. Das Buch stellt auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, aber sehr praxisorientiert das Gesamtbild neuropathischer Schmerzen dar, beginnend bei der Schmerzsymptomatik, über das klinische Krankheitsbild bis zu den relevanten 'evidence based' Therapiemaßnahmen. Der Käufer kann einerseits schwierige Sachverhalte nachlesen (umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis) und andererseits das Buch als therapeutisches Nachschlagwerk verwenden. 140 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -four The of this volume deal with new notions of whose papers algebras feature is common to have two So are called generating operations. they dial- bras. The first motivation to introduce such structures a algebraic was problem in It turned out later that some of them dendriform algebraic K-theory. (the related are to in the of ren- dialgebras) closely Hopf algebras occuring theory malization of A. Connes and D. Kreimer. are also related to the They closely notion of Gerstenhaber homotopy algebra. Let us first describe the motivation from The algebraic K-theory. al- braic of a are not like the but K-groups ring periodic topological K-groups, of of some them shows the existence of a computation periodicity phenomenon. For instance the 0 are of 4 for 2. The groups K,(Z) Q periodic period n are constructed on the linear GL. If algebraic K-groups general we - group it its additive that is the Lie then the place by counterpart, algebra gl, analogue of is : it is denoted HC. It algebraic K-theory computable cyclic homology, turns that for out this the is well understood. theory periodicity phenomenon It takes the form of a exact : long sequence - - - -+ -.+ -4 HCn_1 HH, -+ HC, --+ HCn-2 HCn+1 where HHstands for Hochschild In other homology. words, cyclic homology is not but the obstruction to is it is periodic (in general) periodicity known, Hochschild homology. 148 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -' . many eminent scholars, endowed with great geometric talent, make a point of never disclosing the simple and direct ideas that guided them, subordinating their elegant results to abstract general theories which often have no application outside the particular case in question. Geometry was becoming a study of algebraic, differential or partial differential equations, thus losing all the charm that comes from its being an art.' H. Lebesgue, Ler;ons sur les Constructions Geometriques, Gauthier Villars, Paris, 1949. This book is based on lecture courses given to final-year students at the Uni versity of Nottingham and to M.Sc. students at the University of the West Indies in an attempt to reverse the process of expurgation of the geometry component from the mathematics curricula of universities. This erosion is in sharp contrast to the situation in research mathematics, where the ideas and methods of geometry enjoy ever-increasing influence and importance. In the other direction, more modern ideas have made a forceful and beneficial impact on the geometry of the ancients in many areas. Thus trigonometry has vastly clarified our concept of angle, calculus has revolutionised the study of plane curves, and group theory has become the language of symmetry. 216 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Building on classical queueing theory mainly dealing with single node queueing systems, networks of queues, or stochastic networks has been a field of intensive research over the last three decades. Whereas the first breakthrough in queueing network theory was initiated by problems and work in operations research, the second breakthrough, as well as subsequent major work in the area, was closely related to computer science, particularly to performance analysis of complex systems in computer and communication science.The text reports on recent research and development in the area. It is centered around explicit expressions for the steady behavior of discrete time queueing networks and gives a moderately positive answer to the question of whether there can be a product form calculus in discrete time. Originating from a course given by the author at Hamburg University, this book is ideally suited as a text for courses on discrete time stochastic networks. 152 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Sun is the closest star to Earth, and the only one we can observe in any sort of detail. As such it is a fascinating field of study, and one that is well-suited to amateur astronomers - the Sun is close enough to need little magnification. It also has the practical advantage, unlike every other astronomical object, of being visible in the daytime!During solar eclipses, there are momentary chances to observe and photograph some spectacular and scientifcally interesting sights.Studying the Sun nonetheless needs specialist knowledge. Safety is paramount, as without the right precautions the heat and light of the Sun would instantly blind the observer. But given the right techniques, the Sun is a rewarding subject for amateur astronomers: in this book, Professor Chris Kitchin provides all the information needed for safe solar observing. 244 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains the presentations given at the Workshop on OpenMP App- cations and Tools, WOMPAT 2001. The workshop was held on July 30 and 31, 2001 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. It brought together designers, users, and researchers of the OpenMP application programming int- face. OpenMP has emerged as the standard for shared memory parallel progr- ming. For the rst time, it is possible to write parallel programs that are portable across the majority of shared memory parallel computers. WOMPAT 2001 s- ved as a forum for all those interested in OpenMP and allowed them to meet, share ideas and experiences, and discuss the latest developments of OpenMP and its applications. WOMPAT 2001 was co-sponsored by the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB). It followed a series of workshops on OpenMP, including WOMPAT 2000, EWOMP 2000, and WOMPEI 2000. For WOMPAT 2001, we solicited papers formally and published them in the form of this book. The authors submitted extended abstracts, which were reviewed by the program committee. All submitted papers were accepted. The authors were asked to prepare a nal paper in which they addressed the reviewers comments. The proceedings, in the form of this book, were created in time to be available at the workshop. In this way, we hope to have brought out a timely report of ongoing OpenMP-related research and development e orts as well as ideas for future improvements. 200 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The phenomenal increases in computer system performance in recent years have been accompanied by a commensurate increase in power and energy dissipation. The latter has directly resulted in demand for expensive packaging and cooling technology, an increase in product cost, and a decrease in product reliability in all segments of the computing market. Moreover, the higher power/energy dissipation has signi cantly reduced battery life in portable systems. While - stem designers have traditionally relied on circuit-level techniques to reduce - wer/energy, there is a growing need to address power/energy dissipation at all levels of the computer system. We are pleased to welcome you to the proceedings of the Power-Aware C- puter Systems (PACS 2000) workshop. PACS 2000 was the rst workshop in its series and its aim was to bring together experts from academia and industry to address power-/energy-awareness at all levels of computer systems. In these p- ceedings, we bring you several excellent research contributions spanning a wide spectrum of areas in power-aware systems, from application all the way to c- pilers and microarchitecture, and to power/performance estimating models and tools. We have grouped the contributions into the following speci c categories: (1) power-aware microarchitectural/circuit techniques, (2) application/compiler power optimizations, (3) exploiting opportunity for power optimization in - struction scheduling and cache memories, and (4) power/performance models and tools. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Context has emerged as a central concept in a variety of contemporary app- aches to reasoning. The conference at which the papers in this volume were presented was the third international, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of context, and was held in Dundee, Scotland on July 27-30, 2001. The rst conference in this series was held in Rio de Janiero in 1997, and the second in Trento in 1999. Like the previous conferences, CONTEXT 2001 was remarkably successful in bringing together representatives of many di erent elds, spanning the entire range of the cognitive and informational sciences, and with interests ranging from speci c, commercial applications to highly general philosophical and logical theories. The papers collected here demonstrate well the range of context-related - search. While foundational problems remain, and continue to be discussed in many of the contributions collected in this volume, the work shows increased - phistication about what forms of reasoning are important, and what techniques are appropriate in accounting for them. The papers themselves, however, do not convey the lively excitement of the conference itself, and the continuing spirit of cooperation and communication across disciplines that has been the hallmark of these conferences. We are very pleased that the eld of context research has shown over four years intense, sustained development while retaining this sense of interdisciplinary cooperation. 488 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present volume of Springer s Lecture Notes in Arti cial Intelligence' - cuses on the challenge of balancing between the two extremes of pure reactivity and in-depth social deliberation in the context of multi-agent systems. Finding a balance between these two extremes will lead to an overall behavior of the individual agents and of the multi-agent system that meets the demands of the environment but also the demand for high-quality problem solving results. This book collects selected and revised papers from Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems'{aworkshop held at the 14th European Conference on Arti cial Intelligence (ECAI 2000) { and additional papers from renowned researchers in the eld. All the papers contained in this book have undergone at least one complete phase of reviewing and correction with ty- cally three reviews, the large majority of them have been through two phases. In the rst phase, papers were reviewed by members of the advisory committee, in the second phase, papers were peer-reviewed among the authors with additional comments from members of the advisory committee. Although several contributions to this book stem from members of the - boCup community and as such also deal with related topics, this is not a book on RoboCup. 252 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Staticanalysisisaresearchareaaimedatdevelopingprinciplesandtoolsforv- i cation and semantics-based manipulation of programs and high-performance implementation of programming languages. The series of Static Analysis S- posia is a forum for the presentation and discussion of advances in the area. This volume contains the papers presentedat the EighthInternationalStatic Analysis Symposium (SAS 2001), which was held July 16{18, 2001 at the S- bonne in Paris, France. Previous SAS symposia were held in Santa Barbara,CA, USA (LNCS 1824), Venice, Italy (LNCS 1694), Pisa, Italy (LNCS 1503), Paris, France (LNCS 1302), Aachen, Germany (LNCS 1145), Glasgow, UK(LNCS983),Namur,Belgium(LNCS864),followingtheinternationalwo- shop WSA in Padova, Italy (LNCS 724), Bordeaux, France (Bigre Vol. 81-82) and JTASPEFL/WSA, Bordeaux, France (Bigre Vol. 74). The program committee meeting was held at the Ecole Normale Sup erieure in Paris on March 31, 2001, and 21 papers were selected from 62 submissions. In addition to the contributed papers, this volume includes invited papers by RustanLeinoandMartinRinard.Thisvolumealsocontainstheabstractsofan invitedtalkbyFredSchneider and of the presentations by Bruno Blanchet, Andrew Gordon, Andrew Myers,andDavid Wagner at an invited session on security. May 2001 Patrick Cousot VI Preface ProgramCommittee Patrick Cousot (Chair) Ecole Normale Sup erieure, Paris, France Maurice Bruynooghe Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 456 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We are pleased to bring you this collection of papers for the Ninth International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS), representing continued excellence in conceptual structures research. We have adopted the title Broadening the Base,' acknowledging the importance of contributions from scholars in many research areas. The rst ICCS meetings focused primarily on Sowa's conceptual graphs; in recent years, however, the ICCS conference series has intentionally widened its scope to stimulate research across domain boundaries. We hope that this stimulation is further enhanced by ICCS 2001 continuing the long tradition of lively conferences about Conceptual Structures. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of submitted papers, to the general chair, to the members of the editorial board and the program committee, and to the additional reviewers for making ICCS 2001 a valuable contribution to the knowledge processing research eld. We would also like to acknowledge the leadership of Guy Mineau and Bernhard Ganter in providing a solid framework for an open and e ective reviewing process. Very special thanks go to the local organizers for making the conference possible and, furthermore, an enjoyable and inspiring event. We are grateful to the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the University of Karlsruhe for their generous support. 392 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -There is an urgent need for guidelines for monitoring of genetically modified higher plants, GMHP. Biotech crops are now cultivated in large scale in North America and elsewhere. In Europe, new genetically modified (GM) products will probably be placed on the market soon and made available of any negative ef for cultivation in the field. Monitoring and surveillance programs for detection fects to the environment must be designed and ready when these crops are released. This also corre sponds to the current intentions made by the European Commission to include monitoring in current biotechnology regulation. Monitoring of changes in biological systems is different from other types of environmental monitoring, such as monitoring fate of chemical pollutants, by focusing primarily on organism survival and organism interactions instead of physical and chemical parameters. The difficulties involved in monitoring biological systems are great, due to the complex interactions between organisms and the variability in responses. Problems concerning spatial and temporal pa rameter variation increase the difficulties, but may be remedied somewhat by the use of 'baselines'. These and many other questions are discussed in the present book with the aim of presenting practi cal solutions to the needs of GMHP monitoring. A project was initiated in 1998 to produce a book with guidelines for monitoring and surveillance of GMHP. In two earlier books, compilations of current test methods for risk assessment of GMHP were presented (Kjellsson & Simonsen 1994, Kjellsson et al. 1997). 119 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Haptic human-computer interaction is interaction between a human computer user and the computer user interface based on the powerful human sense of touch. Haptic hardware has been discussed and exploited for some time, particularly in the context of computer games. However, so far, little attention has been paid to the general principles of haptic HCI and the systematic use of haptic devices for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction in HCI.This book is the first one to focus on haptic human-computer interaction. It is based on a workshop held in Glasgow, UK, in August / September 2000. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. Besides a brief historic survey, the book offers topical sections on haptic interfaces for blind people, collaborative haptics, psychological issues and measurement, and applications of haptics. 240 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a synthetic historiography of present-day international relations theory, a critical analysis of the continuing diversity and complexity of enduring themes through a sustained focus on the analysis of the empirical evidence accumulated by social scientists. Special attention is given to key historical changes in theoretical approaches over the past half-century with full recognition of the contestation over state-based theory, and the changing fortunes of contemporary approaches. The book suggests that viable theories must transcend current intellectual fashion, and attempts to bring together theory and practice while demonstrating the difficulty of assessing competing theories. It addresses multiple strands of thought and assumes that their development cannot be understood in isolation from each other. 317 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Provides extensive usability data on what users want in an electronic book. Includes CD-ROM containing the electronic version of the book.Since the advent of personal computers, experts have predicted the paperless office, the rise of the electronic book, and the mass communication effect of the World Wide Web as the beginning of the end of the book. However, trends show that sales of paper increased with sales of com puter networks - people have been trained to read books, and are more familiar with the act of picking up a book and reading than looking at chunks of information. There are many publishing applications that enable you to create sophisticated electronic books and distribute your electronic books to your readers via the World Wide Web or electronic book reader with ease not seen before in the publishing industry. Electronic Books and ePublishing shows you how to design electronic books using the book metaphor. The information presented in this book is a culmination of the author's experience as an author and researcher, and includes valuable information gathered through user surveys, user focus groups, usability testing and participation in industry groups and standards organisations.CD-ROM contains a pdf version of the book and can be read using Adobe Acrobat. 248 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This lucid guide meets the need, so often expressed in the 1990s, for an up-to-date assessment of the contemporary Commonwealth. It has a succinct section on its historical background and gives more attention than any previous works to symbols and to the 'People's Commonwealth' of voluntary organizations, sports and business. It highlights critical questions of balance that have emerged between the relative roles of governments and official agencies, voluntary associations, and private business. 265 pp. Englisch.…