الصفحة 36
الصفحة 36
Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy ; Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 10-14 October 2005
Contains the proceedings of possibly the last conference ever on integral-field spectroscopy. The contributors focus on the scientific questions that can be answered with integral-field spectroscopy, ranging from solar system studies all the way to high redshift surveys.
Science of Societal Safety : Living at Times of Risks and Disasters
This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement needed for societal safety includes comprehensive activities of all aspects from precaution to recovery, not only of people but also of governments. In the first part the fundamental concepts of safety are discussed. The second part deals with risks in the societal and natural environment. Then follows, in the third part, a description of the quantitative estimation of risk and its assessment and management. The fourth part is devoted to disaster prevention, mitigation, and recovery systems. The final, fifth part presents a future perspective of societal safety science.
Science for Agriculture and Rural Development in Low-income Countries
Special emphasis was given to lessons for future thinking about the contribution of agriculture to: 1) poverty alleviation and rural livelihoods; 2)food security, human nutrition and health; 3) environmental sustainability and natural resource management. In discussing the way ahead, a number of major research challenges, as well as policy questions are outlined.
Science and Practice of Pressure Ulcer Management
Science and Practice of Pressure Ulcer Management establishes the clinical and scientific basis behind effective pressure ulcer management. Essential reading for dermatology clinicians and vascular surgeons, and having been developed under the auspices of EPUAP (European Pressure Ulcer Advisery Panel), this text is the primary reference for pressure ulcers from diagnosis and prevention to management and treatment options. Dermatology nursing and clinic staff, as well as interns, gain important insight from reading this book. The contributing authors are all experts in the management of pressure ulcers and will provide a valuable clinical compendium for this difficult area of medicine. Numerous detailed illustrations, many in color, and tables are included to enhance the text.
Scheduling Algorithms
Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems the book covers advanced models involving due-dates, sequence dependent changeover times and batching. Also multiprocessor task scheduling and problems with multi-purpose machines are discussed. The methods used to solve these problems are linear programming, dynamic programming, branch-and-bound algorithms, and local search heuristics. Complexity results for different classes of deterministic scheduling problems are summerized.
Scheduling : Theory, Algorithms, and Systems
This book on scheduling covers theoretical models as well as scheduling problems in the real world. The book consists of three parts. The first part focuses on deterministic scheduling with the associated combinatorial problems. The second part covers probabilistic scheduling models. In this part it is assumed that processing times and other problem data are not known in advance. The third part deals with scheduling in practice. It covers heuristics that are popular with practitioners and discusses system design and development issues. Each chapter contains a series of computational and theoretical exercises.
Scenarios : Models, transformations and tools ; International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, September 7-12, 2003, Revised Selected Papers
Visual notations and languages continue to play a pivotal role ˆ in the design of complex software systems. In many cases visual notations are used to - scribe usage or interaction scenarios of software systems or their components. While representing scenarios using a visual notation is not the only possibility, a vast majority of scenario description languages is visual. Scenarios are used in telecommunications as Message Sequence Charts, in object-oriented system design as Sequence Diagrams, in reverse engineering as execution traces, and in requirements engineering as, for example, Use Case Maps or Life Sequence Charts. These techniques are used to capture requirements, to capture use cases in system documentation, to specify test cases, or to visualize runs of existing systems. They are often employed to represent concurrent systems that int- act via message passing or method invocation.
Scattering and Structures : Essentials and Analogies in Quantum Physics
Quantum physics may appear complicated, especially if one forgets the "big picture" and gets lost in the details. However, it can become clearer and less tangled if one applies a few fundamental concepts so that simplified approaches can emerge and estimated orders of magnitude become clear. Povh and Rosina’s "Scattering and Structures" presents the properties of quantum systems (elementary particles, nucleons, atoms, molecules, quantum gases, quantum liquids, stars, and early universe) with the help of elementary concepts and analogies between these seemingly different systems. The original German-language edition of this book was written for students preparing for their final oral examination in physics. By and large, the scope of the book in English has been essentially enlarged and thus will also be of interest for physicists in general.
Scarcity Marketing : Impact of Limited-ed. Packaging on Purchase Intentions in The Syrian Market
The Syrian market have relied on the basic scarcity product tactics, but creativity and uniqueness have become more in need, hence that is what this paper aims at delivering by evaluating the effectiveness of limited-edition packaging as a scarcity product tactic. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of scarcity messages on the consumer’s purchase intention. Specifically, we explore the effect of LEP’s on the consumer’s purchase intention using limited time, limited quantity and FOMO as moderators. how they affect the purchase intention of consumers, and how the feeling of ‘Fear of Missing Out’ (FOMO) does influence this relationship. For this research, an online questionnaire has been conducted among 306 participants, focused within the context of food and beverages. The results show that there is positive impact of LEPs on consumer purchase intentions, in addition to the positive moderation effect that was founded, strengthening the relationship furthermore.
Scanning Probe Microscopy : Electrical and Electromechanical Phenomena at the Nanoscale
Scanning Probe Microscopy brings up to date a constantly growing knowledge base of electrical and electromechanical characterization at the nanoscale. This comprehensive, two-volume set presents practical and theoretical issues of advanced scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques ranging from fundamental physical studies to device characterization, failure analysis, and nanofabrication. Volume 1 focuses on the technical aspects of SPM methods ranging from scanning tunneling potentiometry to electrochemical SPM, and addresses the fundamental physical phenomena underlying the SPM imaging mechanism. Volume 2 concentrates on the practical aspects of SPM characterization of a wide range of materials, including semiconductors, ferroelectrics, dielectrics, polymers, carbon nanotubes, and biomolecules, as well as on SPM-based approaches to nanofabrication and nanolithography.
Scaling Topic Maps ; 3rd International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2007 Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2007 Revised Selected Papers
Organized in topical sections on applied topic maps in industry and administration, visualisation and representation of topic maps, collaborative applications, standards related research, information integration with topic maps, social software with topic maps, topic maps engines, topic maps and dublin core, information management with topic maps, as well as open space and poster sessions.
Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision ; 5th International Conference, Scale-Space 2005, Hofgeismar, Germany, April 7-9, 2005, Proceedings
Welcome to the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Scale-Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision. The scale-space concept was introduced by Iijima more than 40 years ago and became popular later on through the works of Witkin and Koenderink. It is at the junction of three major schools of thought in image processing and computer vision: the design of ?lters, axiomatic approaches based on partial di?erential equations (PDEs), and variational methods for image regularization. Scale-space ideas belong to the mathematically best-understood approaches in image analysis.
Scalable Infrastructure for Distributed Sensor Networks
The book tackles the problems that must be addressed before sensors are deployed for surveillance, tracking, and other monitoring applications and the solutions described are scalable for large and dense sensor networks. Included in a comprehensive treatment of the topic are: techniques for deterministic sensor deployment for applications such as smart buildings and aircraft structural monitoring; techniques for ad hoc deployment for sensors.
Saving dental implants
Comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to all aspects of dental implant maintenance, based on treatment outcomes. The book offers a complete reference to all factors in long-term success in dental implants. and examines treatment outcomes, provides advice on how to manage implants for long-term success, and supports clinicians in avoiding and managing peri-implant complications.
Saving Biological Diversity : Balancing Protection of Endangered Species and Ecosystems
The distinctive contribution of this book is that it presents a pragmatic approach for preserving biological diversity. Experts in a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, environmental policy, law, economics and biology, present different perspectives on how to prevent widespread extinction around the world. Several chapters deal with basic questions such as how we should define biodiversity and how we should determine what is most important to save. Two chapters focus on how we can place an economic value on biological diversity, a step that is often critical for gaining acceptance for conservation efforts. One of the major conclusions is that people are often willing to pay to preserve natural systems that have no immediate value in terms of generating income or commodities. Other chapters are case studies of efforts to protect particular species or ecosystems; these provide practical guidelines for how to protect biodiversity more effectively.
SAS for Data Analysis : Intermediate Statistical Methods
This book is an integrated treatment of applied statistical methods, presented at an intermediate level, and the SAS programming language. It serves as an advanced introduction to SAS as well as how to use SAS for the analysis of data arising from many different experimental and observational studies. While there are many introductory texts on SAS programming, statistical methods texts that solely make use of SAS as the software of choice for the analysis of data are rare. While this is understandable from a marketability point of view, clearly such texts will serve the need of many thousands of students and professionals who desire to learn how to use SAS beyond the basic introduction they usually receive from taking an introductory statistics course.
Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disorder that commonly occurs with advancing age as well as with a number of long-term conditions. Originally characterized as loss of muscle mass, the definition has evolved to focus on loss of skeletal muscle function, particularly strength.
Samii's Essentials in Neurosurgery
Samii's Essentials in Neurosurgery' contains selected papers written by internationally recognized contributors who were trained by Professor Madjid Samii in Hannover, Germany. The main topics deal with cutting-edge technology in neurosurgery, skull-base surgery, and specific peripheral nerve, spine, and vascular surgeries. The texts and a wealth of illustrations review and reinforce guidelines on the diagnosis and management of situations that readers are likely to encounter in everyday practice. This book will be of great interest to neurosurgeons, neurologists, ENT surgeons, neuroradiologists, and neurophysiotherapists.
Salute & equilibrio nutrizionale = Health & nutritional balance
L'obesità costituisce il problema nutrizionale più frequente nei paesi industrializzati. In Italia, un bambino su quattro è soprappeso, uno su dieci è obeso. Inoltre, i risultati di recenti indagini epidemiologiche suggeriscono che il numero dei bambini obesi sembra destinato ad aumentare ulteriormente. L'obesità esordita in età giovanile costituisce un problema soprattutto a causa di due fattori: la persistenza dell'obesità in età adulta e l'elevato rischio di morbilità: in più del 50% dei casi il bambino obeso mantiene il suo eccesso ponderale anche in età adulta. L'estensione del fenomeno obesità ed il suo progressivo aggravarsi impongono la realizzazione di efficaci interventi preventivi e terapeutici. Questo volume riporta i più recenti aggiornamenti sui fattori genetici, metabolici e psicologici coinvolti nel determinare lo sviluppo dell'obesità nell'età evolutiva, e suggerimenti basati sull'evidenza scientifica per il suo trattamento.
Salivary Gland Development and Regeneration : Advances in Research and Clinical Approaches to Functional Restoration
Provides a comprehensive update on the latest information and knowledge which emerged from translational and basic science research endeavors, targeting the regeneration of salivary glands. The coverage includes salivary gland growth and development, stem cell therapy, bioengineering of salivary glands, and perspectives on and practical approaches to restoration of secretory function.
