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• Author(s): Kathleen Dahlgren • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding. The basic assumption of N...

• Author(s): B. Brundell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralPierre Gassendi (1592-1655) lived in three civilizations in the span of one life-time: medieval ecclesiastic, Renaissance humanist and modern and he neve...

• Author(s): I. B. MacNeill • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralOn May 27-31, 1985, a series of symposia was held at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Pro- fessor ...

• Author(s): R. M. Mendelsohn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): John R. Wright • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis volume is intended for students and professionals in diverse areas of the biological and biochemical sciences. It is oriented to those who are un...

• Author(s): Frank William Jefkins • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis dictionary covers marketing communications in the broadest sense, including advertising, but also extending to public relations which conc...

• Author(s): W. H. Loh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralDuring the last decade, the rapid growth of knowledge in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer has resulted in many significant ad- vances of inte...

• Author(s): G. Gorshkov • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe present volume seems to me to be a particularly im- portant one for several reasons. Not least among these is the fact that it summarizes the work of...

• Author(s): T. Goodwin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe carotenoids are not only amongst the most widespread of the naturally occurring groups of pigments, but probably also have the most varied functions; ...

• Author(s): Helen Schwartzman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralWriting a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too ser...

• Author(s): R. Bakker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralAfter the pioneering studies by Ussing and co-workers, studies of epithelial Nael transport have come a long way. The first phase of the phenomenological d...

• Author(s): Joanna Mikolajewska • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralSymbiotic stars were identified spectroscopically as M giants with a very strong He II 4686 emission line. After five decades of study by many as...

• Author(s): F. J. Lowes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis volume presents lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute held 11-22 April 1988 at Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The aim of the Institute ...

• Author(s): M. Bunge • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis volume is a logical sequel of Volume I, The Search for System: indeed, it concerns the ways theoretical systems are put to work and subjected to test. ...

• Author(s): S. S. Chern • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralWhen the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute was started in the Fall of 1982, one of the programs was "non-linear partial differential equations". A...

• Author(s): A. Nicolas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General1.1. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPHIOLITE CONCEPT. Ophiolite, Greek for 'the snake stone', appears to have received its first written definition by Bro...

• Author(s): Oliver Gilbert • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis book is about the plants and animals of urban areas, not the urban fringe, not encapsulated countryside but those parts of towns where man's impa...

• Author(s): Timothy L. Ratliff • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe study of genitourinary tumors is an area of recent rapid growth both in the understanding of disease processes and in the development of new d...

• Author(s): K. L. Su • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralAnalog filters are commonly used in areas such as electronics, communications, controls and signal processing. It is desirable for engineers and students in...

• Author(s): A. A. Collyer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralRubber Toughened Engineering Plastics covers the main physical principles involved in optimum toughening in high temperature engineering plastics and s...

• Author(s): H. K. Lichtenthaler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThi s book is a general introduction into in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence and contains the contributions of the first International Ch 1 orophyl...

• Author(s): John Murphy • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralOOIS'95 (Object-Oriented Information Systems '95) contains contributions from leading researchers and practitioners working on object oriented technology...

• Author(s): R. P. Hayes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralBuddhist philosophy in India in the early sixth century C. E. took an important tum away from the traditional methods of explaining and systematizing the...

• Author(s): Robert W. Brodersen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralA silicon compiler is a software system which can automatically generate an integrated circuit from a user's specification. Anatomy of a Silicon...

• Author(s): Manfred Schütze • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Generalby Professor Poul Harremoes Environmental engineering has been a discipline dominated by empirical approaches to engineering. Historically speaking, ...

• Author(s): John Grayson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe recogmtIon of the microcirculation as an ideal interdisciplinary meeting place for the life sciences is really a postwar phenomenon. The European an...

• Author(s): J. -P Merlet • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralParallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads. Paral...

• Author(s): E. Agazzi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralProbability has become one of the most characteristic con- cepts of modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said to have penetrated al...

• Author(s): C. Nicolini • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis NATO-ASI on BIOPOLYMERS STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS held between 22nd June 4th July 1986 at Erice (Italy) has brought together scientists from a broad va...

• Author(s): K. -H Lembeck • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralDaB fUr die Entwicklung der Phanomenologie Husserls nicht zuletzt auch, wissenschaftstheoretische' Motive ausschlaggebend waren, ist hinreichend bekann...

• Author(s): E. C. Patterson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralAmong the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the hist...

• Author(s): C. I. Christov • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralComprehensive reference text giving an overview of the current state of nonlinear wave mechanics in both elastic and fluid media. Consists of self-c...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Abbott III • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General5 care reforms. Part II: Price Regulation The second partofthis volume examines the role ofprice regulation in controlling health care costs. It...

• Author(s): L. O. Baker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis year notes two major changes in the annual Detroit Cancer Symposium. The first is our intention of selecting top- ics of broad interest to the cance...

• Author(s): Marianne J. Legato • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralHeart disease, despite recent improvements, continues to be the single most im- portant cause of death and disability in the United States. It is ...

• Author(s): D. A. Abramowicz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe action of enzymes fascinated mankind long before they were rec- ognized for the complex chemicals that they are. The first application of these ...

• Author(s): B. Kadomtsev • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): R. Nezlin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralWhen the history of immunology in the twentieth century is written, the decade of the 1960's will, in all probability, stand out as the period of greatest ...

• Author(s): J. Franklin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralAfter a few faint stirrings of interest in ion-molecule reactions during the early days of mass spectrometry, the subject was almost completely neglected...

• Author(s): C. G. Gebelein • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe term biotechnology has emerged on the contemporary scene fairly recently, but the basic concept of utilizing natural materials, either directly or...

• Author(s): S. Ohki • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralMembrane interaction is a large research area involving various disciplines. A symposium entitled "Cell and Model Membrane Interactions" which took place in ...

• Author(s): A. Bjørseth • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe Commission of the European Communities presents with this volume the proceedings and the conclusions of the second European Symposium on the analysis...

• Author(s): Jack K. Hale • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralSince the publication of my lecture notes, Functional Differential Equations in the Applied Mathematical Sciences series, many new developments have occ...

• Author(s): Vladimir Ibler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): K. Houziaux • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralTwo years ago, just before the Prague meeting of the International Astronomical Union, Armin Deutsch made the bold suggestion that the space spectroscopi...

• Author(s): V. G. Szebehely • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis volume contains lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Long-Time Predictions in Dynamics conducted in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy d...

• Author(s): Imre Csiszar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralThe Conference on Stochastic Differential and Difference Equations held at Gyor, Hungary, August 21-24,1996 was organized jointly by Eotvos Lonind Uni...

• Author(s): Rae Earnshaw • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThe very word "digital" has acquired a status that far exceeds its humble dictionary definition. Even the prefix digital, when associ- ated with familia...

• Author(s): Gerald Segal • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralIf one reflects upon the range of chemical problems accessible to the current quantum theoretical methods for calculations on the electronic structure o...

• Author(s): Oscar Castillo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Physica-Verlag • BISAC: GeneralWe describe in this book, new methods for intelligent manufacturing using soft computing techniques and fractal theory. Soft Computing (SC) cons...

• Author(s): E. S. Folias • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralIt is propitious that the 25th year of publication of the International Journal of Fracture should coincide with the opportunity to support the recognit...

• Author(s): W. Everaerd • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralDepending on the definition of this concept that is adopted, adolescence is the narrow threshold or a vast no-man's land that separates adulthood from ch...

• Author(s): Stefano Puglisi-Allegra • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom a historical point of view the first studies on the response of the organism to stressful situations in general, and on the psychobiolog...

• Author(s): O. Güven • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralMOLECULAR WEIGHr CHANGES AND NE1WORK FORMATION BY SCISSION AND CROSSUNKING A. Charlesby 1 Introduction Main Chain Scission of Polymers _____________________...

• Author(s): L. J. Didio • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis unique volume may very well foreshadow the treatment of renal disease in the twenty-first century. The editors have obviously compiled and reviewed ...

• Author(s): Irwin Altman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis eleventh volume in the series departs from the pattern of earlier volumes. Some of those volumes addressed research, design, and policy topics in t...

• Author(s): M. Dawkins • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Generalthe oleic acid on a live and wriggling sister or mother and refrain from evicting her from our hive. But does the occur- rence of unintelligent behavior s...

• Author(s): Alan B. R. Thomson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralA fine team of state-of-the-art researcher/clinicians who know their fields, have contributed to the advancement of knowledge, and are in a positi...

• Author(s): Frauke Beller • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis textbook has its ongm in a longstanding international profes- sional and personal relationship of the authors. The success of the German edition w...

• Author(s): John Turino • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralThis book is the second edition of Design to Test. The first edition, written by myself and H. Frank Binnendyk and first published in 1982, has undergone...