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Multiscale mechanics of hierarchical materials plays a crucial role in understanding and engineering biological and bioinspired materials and systems. The mechanical science of hierarchical tissues and cells in biological systems has recently emerged as an exciting area of research and provides enormous opportunities for innovative basic research and technological advancement. Such advances could enable us to provide engineered materials and s...

We organized the Seventh International Winter Conference on Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation in a small town of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture in Japan on January 20 to 22, 1999. Karuizawa is a nice summer as well as winter resort close to the place for winter Olympic game in the year of 1998. Over 40 scientists gathered together and made hot discussion. Neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation are two major and important neurologic diso...

Like Descartes and Pascal, Hans Hahn (1879-1934) was both an eminent mathematician and a highly influential philosopher. He founded the Vienna Circle and was the teacher of both Kurt Gödel and Karl Popper. His seminal contributions to functional analysis and general topology had a huge impact on the development of modern analysis. Hahn's passionate interest in the foundations of mathematics, vividly described in Sir Karl Popper's foreword (whi...

Like Descartes and Pascal, Hans Hahn (1879-1934) was both an eminent mathematician and a highly influential philosopher. He founded the Vienna Circle and was the teacher of both Kurt Gödel and Karl Popper. His seminal contributions to functional analysis and general topology had a huge impact on the development of modern analysis. Hahn's passionate interest in the foundations of mathematics, vividly described in Sir Karl Popper's foreword ...

Das "Handbuch der Segetalpflanzen Mitteleuropas" ist das erste umfassende Nachschlage- und Bestimmungswerk für die wichtigsten und vielfach auch schon selten gewordenen Unkrautpflanzen Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz. Botaniker, Ökologen, sowie Fachleute aus Pflanzen- und Naturschutz erhalten eine detaillierte Charakterisierung von über 200 Pflanzenarten, für weitere 190 einen kurzen Überblick. Diese Darstellung umfasst Beschreibung...

Karl Menger, one of the founders of dimension theory, is among the most original mathematicians and thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a member of the Vienna Circle and the founder of its mathematical equivalent, the Viennese Mathematical Colloquium. Both during his early years in Vienna and, after his emigration, in the United States, Karl Menger made significant contributions to a wide variety of mathematical fields, and greatly influ...

The need of generalized continua models is coming from practice. Complex material behavior sometimes cannot be presented by the classical Cauchy continua. At present the attention of the scientists in this field is focused on the most recent research items • new models, • application of well-known models to new problems, • micro-macro aspects, • computational effort, and • possibilities to identify the constitutive equations The new research d...

Die Photonik beschäftigt sich mit der kontrollierten Erzeugung, Ausbreitung, Manipulation und Detektion von - vorwiegend kohärenten - Lichtfeldern. Das Buch vermittelt ein fundiertes Verständnis dieses modernen Wissensgebietes, von den physikalischen Grundlagen bis zur Ebene der photonischen `Bauelemente': Laser, Verstärker, Wellenleiter, Modulatoren und Schalter, Interferometer, Detektoren etc. Gegenüber der zweiten Auflage wurde dieses bei S...

Security is a key element in the development of any non-trivial application. The Spring Security Framework provides a comprehensive set of functionalities to implement industry-standard authentication and authorization mechanisms for Java applications. Pro Spring Security will be a reference and advanced tutorial that will do the following: Guides you through the implementation of the security features for a Java web application by presenting ...

Transient friction effects determine the behavior of a wide class of mechatronic systems. Classic examples are squealing brakes, stiction in robotic arms, or stick-slip in linear drives. To properly design and understand mechatronic systems of this type, good quantitative models of transient friction effects are of primary interest. The theory developed in this book approaches this problem bottom-up, by deriving the behavior of macroscopic fri...

Heiserkeit, Räusperzwang oder der berühmte "Frosch im Hals" - Stimmprobleme werden immer häufiger. Der steigende Kommunikationsbedarf und die Bedeutung einer gesunden Stimme in der modernen Gesellschaft stellen hohe Anforderungen an Diagnostik und Therapie von Stimmstörungen. Dieses Buch erläutert in Anlehnung an die Empfehlungen der European Laryngological Society grundlegende Verfahren der Diagnostik und Therapieplanung bei Stimmstörungen un...

Zweifellos begann mit der Formierung des Wiener Kreises ein neuer Abschnitt im Denken von Moritz Schlick, die Schlick'sche Spätphilosophie gibt es allerdings nicht. Vorrangiges Ziel dieser Studie ist die kritische Rekonstruktion eines Denkweges, der bei allen Verästelungen und Brüchen stets das Ziel des Ausbaus eines konsequentenempiristischen Standpunktes verfolgte.Die in der Reihe Schlick-Studien erscheinenden Texte sind Ergebnisse der rezen...

Experts actively working in structural health monitoring and control techniques present the current research, areas of application and tendencies for the future of this technology, including various design issues involved. Examples using some of the latest hardware and software tools, experimental data from small scale laboratory demonstrators and measurements made on real structures illustrate the book. It will be a reference for professional...

The papers in this volume provide a vision of the evolution of the robotics disciplines and indicate new directions in which these disciplines are foreseen to develop. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, novel robot design and robot modules/components, service, rehabilitation, mobile robots, humanoid robots, challenges in control, modeling, kinematical and dynamical analysis of robotic systems, innovations in sensor systems for robot...

This up-to-date guidebook on freshwater invertebrates of the central European region is a richly illustrated work, providing an excellent source of systematic information on freshwater macroinvertebrates. Numerous colour photos and additional vector graphic figures allow readers to identify specific species at a higher taxonomic level (family). The book is supplemented by electronic material including pictures and short video sequences. Freshw...

The management of a water supply network can be substantially improved defining permanent sectors or districts that enhances simpler water loss detection and pressure management. However, the water network partitioning may compromise water system performance, since some pipes are usually closed to delimit districts in order not to have too many metering stations, to decrease costs and simplify water balance. This may reduce the reliability of ...

Sensorische Aktivierung ist ein ganzheitliches Förderkonzept, das für sehr alte und demente Menschen entwickelt wurde mit dem Ziel, Alltagskompetenzen zu erhalten und wiederherzustellen. Aufbauend auf das Buch "Sensorische Aktivierung" werden zahlreiche zusätzliche Aktivierungsmethoden präsentiert, u. a. Motogeragogik, Rhythmik, Klangschalenarbeit, Trauerarbeit und Gedächtnistraining. Neben einem leicht verständlichen Theorieteil bietet der Ba...

This volume presents an integrated approach of the common fundamentals of rail and road vehicles based on multibody system dynamics, rolling wheel contact and control system design. The methods presented allow an efficient and reliable analysis of the resulting state equations. The book provides also a better understanding of the basic physical phenomena of vehicle dynamics. Particular attention is paid to developments of future rail and road ...

This thorough yet understandable introduction to the boundary element method presents an attractive alternative to the finite element method. It not only explains the theory but also presents the implementation of the theory into computer code, the code in FORTRAN 95 can be freely downloaded. The book also addresses the issue of efficiently using parallel processing hardware in order to considerably speed up the computations for large systems....

This multidisciplinary book includes current research papers and reviews in the areas of basic neuroscience, neural mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders. It further includes new approaches for neuroprotective treatments, clinical, neurobiological and treatment aspects of psychiatric disorders. The book was conceived as a celebration of the professional life and work of Peter Riederer to mark the occasion of his retirement.