Andreas Ersson Library

By J. L. B Smith, Margaret M. Smith, Phillip C. Heemstra

A reprinted version of a piece at the sea fishes of Southern Africa, containing new species descriptions and additions and corrections to the textual content.

By R. S. Rollings (auth.), John W. Bull (eds.)

The use of precast concrete is a well-established development approach for beams, flooring, panels, piles, partitions and different structural components. The advan­ tages of precasting comprise first-class qc, budget friendly huge scale creation, more advantageous development productiveness (especially in opposed climatic conditions) and speedy constitution availability. those merits were famous for precast concrete raft pavement devices (raft devices) considering their advent within the Thirties. within the final ten years there was a substantial raise within the use ofraft devices, specially of their diversity of purposes, their research and their layout. notwithstanding, the outline of those advancements has been released in academicjournals and convention lawsuits which aren't available to practicing raft unit pavement layout engineers. Pavement layout engineers are underincreasingpressure to supply raft unit designs which are low-cost, durable and ready to permit reorganization to deal with altering use and uncertainty offuture loading standards. this can be the 1st booklet dedicated to raft unit pavements, and should turn into a customary paintings of reference.

By Dr. Boris Bogdan, Ralph Villiger (auth.)

This ebook is the 1st whole consultant to valuation in existence sciences for execs, traders, and lecturers. Boris Bogdan and Ralph Villiger introduce the features of drug and clinical machine improvement, clarify tips to translate those into the valuation, and supply beneficial info. After guiding the reader during the idea of valuation, together with discounted cash-flow and genuine concepts, the authors show the way to worth initiatives, patents, licences, agencies and shares on real-life examples, even treating advanced licence and corporate constructions. targeted emphasis is wear the practicability of the proposed equipment by means of together with many hands-on examples, with out compromising on real looking effects.

From the reviews:

Ralph Villiger and Boris Bogdan have written what's certain to turn into the regular reference for valuation of pharmaceutical and biotechnology initiatives and corporations.

Dr. Martin Buckland, leader enterprise Officer, Astex Therapeutics, Cambridge, UK

By G. A. D. Briggs, C. M. W. Daft, A. F. Fagan, T. A. Field, C. W. Lawrence, M. Montoto (auth.), Hiroshi Shimizu, Noriyoshi Chubachi, Jun-ichi Kushibiki (eds.)

The seventeenth overseas Symposium on Acoustical Imaging was once held at Tohoku collage, Sendai, Japan, in the course of may perhaps 31-June 2, 1988. The symposium used to be geared up by way of the ultrasonics learn team of Tohoku college and the IEEE ijFFC Society, Tokyo bankruptcy. Of the 128 papers submitted, 88 have been awarded through the symposium, which comprised a hundred and forty four researchers from thirteen international locations. This quantity includes eighty one papers because the list of the symposium and is clas­ sified into the next sections: (1) Acoustic Microscopy and its functions; (2) Non-Destructive assessment; (3) sign Processing of pictures; (4) Acoustic Measurements and actual Acoustics; (5) clinical Ultrasonic Diagnostics; (6) Acoustic Sensors; (7) Acoustic Holography and Tomography; (8) Seismic Exploration; and (9) Imaging Instrumentation and different innovations. the various papers submitted have been linked to scientific ultrasonic diagnostics and acoustic microscopy, reflecting an enormous job in acousti­ cal imaging at Tohoku collage. for that reason, invited talks have been eager about this sector: acoustic microscopy by way of Dr. G. A. D. Briggs of the collage of Oxford and clinical ultrasonics by way of Prof. M. Tanaka of Tohoku college. In mild of the historical past of study during this box at our collage, we're thrilled to have had the chance to host the seventeenth symposium.

By Norbert A. Streitz (auth.), Constantine Stephanidis, Michael Pieper (eds.)

Since its institution in 1995, the ERCIM operating team “User Interfaces for 1 All” (WG UI4ALL) has systematically promoted the proactive attention of the layout for all ideas in HCI. Its actions have incorporated the association of a se- 2 ries of very profitable workshops that experience contributed to consolidate contemporary paintings and stimulate additional dialogue at the state-of-the-art in person interfaces for all and its expanding variety of purposes within the upcoming info Society. Such wo- retailers have introduced jointly, in a brand new clinical group, researchers and groups operating not just within the varied ERCIM organisations, but in addition in organisations past ERCIM and the ecu limitations, who proportion universal pursuits and as- rations and give a contribution to the endeavors in the direction of making the knowledge Society both obtainable to all electorate. This quantity comprises the complaints of the final ERCIM “User Interfaces for All” Workshop. The paintings of the ERCIM WG UI4ALL led in 2001 to the institution of the - ternational convention on common entry in Human–Computer interplay three (UAHCI) , which happens within the context of the HCI overseas convention se- four ries . UAHCI has validated a global discussion board for the dissemination and - swap of medical info on theoretical, methodological and empirical examine that addresses all matters regarding the attainment of common entry within the devel- ment of interactive software program, attracting individuals from a vast diversity of disciplines and fields of expertise.

By A. B. Pippard (auth.), Brian B. Schwartz, Simon Foner (eds.)

This publication contains small and massive scale functions of large­ conductivity. half I, SQUIDs, contains approximately seventy five% of this quantity, and is dedicated to small scale purposes, typically .§uperconducting QUantum Interference units (SQUIDs), and the remaining, half H, Machines, offers an up to date evaluate of huge scale purposes of superconduc­ tivity. the current ebook mixed with the former ebook Superconducting Machines and units: huge structures purposes edited by way of S. Foner and B. B. Schwartz, Plenum Press, long island (1974) represents an in depth and latest overview of the functions of superconducting tech­ nology. The textual content of the present publication is appropriate for complex undergrad­ uates or graduate scholars in utilized physics and engineering classes. The booklet could be necessary to scientists, engineers and technologists attracted to the present prestige and destiny purposes of superconduc­ tivity expertise. The final 7 chapters partially I assessment the most important kingdom­ al efforts on small scale know-how and will turn out beneficial for commercial and govt planners as weIl as scientists and engineers.

By G. Mayer-Kress (auth.), Dr. Gottfried Mayer-Kress (eds.)

These lawsuits include the papers contributed to the foreign paintings­ store on "Dimensions and Entropies in Chaotic structures" on the Pecos River convention heart at the Pecos River Ranch in Spetember 1985. The paintings­ store was once held by means of the heart for Nonlinear experiences of the Los Alamos nationwide Laboratory. on the middle for Nonlinear experiences the research of chaotic dynamics and particularly the quantification of complicated habit has an extended culture. regardless of a few notable successes, there are primary, in addition to nu­ merical, difficulties desirous about the sensible awareness of those algorithms. This has resulted in a chain of courses during which differences and enhance­ ments of the unique tools were proposed. at the moment there exists an increasing number of competing measurement algorithms yet no accomplished assessment explaining how they're comparable. extra, in genuine experimental ap­ plications, instead of an exact set of rules, one unearths common use of "rules of thumb" including blunders estimates which, in lots of situations, seem to be a long way too confident. additionally it appears questions like "What is the maximal measurement of an attractor that it is easy to degree with a given variety of info issues and a given experimental resolution?" have nonetheless now not been spoke back in a passable demeanour for basic cases.

By K. Z. Ahmed, Á. Mesterházy, F. Sági (auth.), Professor Dr. Y. P. S. Bajaj (eds.)

In continuation of Somaclonal edition andCrop ImprovementI (1990), this quantity is created from twenty-four chapters facing somaclonal variations exhibiting resistance to salt/drought, herbicides, viruses, Alternaria, Fusarium, Glomerella, Verticillium, Phytophthora, fall armyworm, and so forth. in a couple of crops of monetary significance.
It is split into sections:
part I. Somaclonal version in Agricultural vegetation: wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, potato, tomato, Lotus, Stylosanthes, banana, strawberry, citrus, colt cherry. part II. Somaclonal edition in Medicinal and fragrant vegetation: Atropa, Carthamus, Hypericum, Lavatera, Nicotiana, Primula, Rauwolfia, Scilla, and Zinnia. This ebook might be of significant counsel to investigate staff, lecturers, and complicated scholars of plant pathology, tissue tradition, pharmacy, horticulture, and particularly plant breeding.

By Peter Alan Lee, Thomas Anderson (auth.)

The construction of a brand new model of any e-book is a frightening activity, as many authors will know. within the box of laptop technological know-how, the duty is made much more daunting via the rate with which the topic and its aiding expertise stream ahead. because the book of the 1st version of this booklet in 1981 a lot examine has been carried out, and plenty of papers were written, just about fault tolerance. Our target then was once to provide for the 1st time the foundations of fault tolerance including present perform to demonstrate these ideas. We think that the foundations have (so a ways) stood the attempt of time and are as applicable at the present time as they have been in 1981. a lot paintings at the functional functions of fault tolerance has been undertaken, and methods were built for ever extra complicated events, comparable to these required for disbursed structures. however, the fundamental rules stay the same.

By F. J. McGuigan (auth.), F. J. McGuigan, Wesley E. Sime, J. Macdonald Wallace (eds.)

The moment foreign Interdisciplinary convention on pressure and rigidity keep watch over, backed by way of the foreign pressure and pressure regulate Society, was once held on the college of Sussex, Brighton, England in the course of the interval August 30 - September three, 1983. The Society has advanced from the yankee organization for the Advancem~t of Tension-Control, which met every year for 5 years in Chicago commen­ cing in 1974, and for which complaints resembling those have been released every year. due to a world taste which the organization steadily received the identify was once replaced to that of The foreign pressure and Tension-Control organization. That association met in London in 1979, after which in Louisville, Kentucky in 1981 in conjunc­ tion with The Biofeedback Society of the US. The lawsuits of that first overseas convention in London have been additionally released through Plenum Publishing corporation. (Stress and stress keep an eye on, McGuigan, Sime and Wallace, 1981). as the result of that first convention have been so pleasing, this moment convention was once scheduled, with comparable effects. those lawsuits are provided for the aim of advancing our equipment of dealing with pressure via rigidity keep an eye on, for over the top physically stress can certainly end result from failure to evolve to the numerous stresses of existence that all of us always face. As we're good acutely aware, the implications of persistent overtension should be disastrous in lots of methods for the human body.