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In this series of 15 essays, which won the Letterstedt Prize, Sweden's equivalent of the Pulitzer, distinguished cell biologist George Klein shares his considerable insights on science and on human nature. Organized loosely as "The Wisdom and Folly of Scientists, " "Journeys, " "Viruses and Cancer, " and "La Condition Humaine, " the essays range from lucid explanations of biological and genetic processes to personal remembrances and studies of...

This book is concerned with the ideological origins of the cold war and how it was fought by economic means. The book revolves around four major themes. Firstly, it is argued that the origin of the cold war is not to be found in rational, economic motivation, but in ideology through which both the East and West perceived 'reality'. Secondly, these ideological preconceptions generated complex feed-back processes of hostility that lasted forty y...

Following the major breakthroughs in the and frequent and thorough exchange of treatment of acute leukemias in the seven­ information. Hence, it was felt that a spe­ ties by the introduction of intensive combi­ cial series of symposia should be devoted to nation regimens, therapeutic progress has "Pharmacokinetics and Management of slowed down and the impression of stagna­ Relapsed and Refractory Disease" comple­ menting the established meetin...

Logic programming synthesis and transformation are methods of deriving logic programs from their specifications and, where necessary, producing alternative but equivalent forms of a given program. The techniques involved in synthesis and transformation are extremely important as they allow the systematic construction of correct and efficient programs and have the potential to enhance current methods of software production. Transformation strat...

Der vorliegende Band 1 behandelt anhand von ]bersichtsarti- keln und konkreten Evaluationsprojekten Grundlagen der Be- wertung im Gesundheitssystem und Anwendungsm|glichkeiten in den verschiedenen Bereichender Gesundheitsversorgung. Damit wird einerseits ein ]berblick }ber laufendeEvaluationspro- jekte gegeben, andererseits k|nnen aus dem Band Hinweise f}r die Gestaltung eigener Evaluationsvorhaben gewonnen werden. Als Methoden und Erge...

Anl{~lich eines Symposiums }ber mikrochirurgische Rekonstruktionen in der Unfallchirurgie wurde }ber die M|glichkeiten der Mikrochirurgie zur Rekonstuktion nach traumatischen Defekten kompetent referiert und diskutiert. Die }berarbeiteten Referate sowie erg{nzende Arbeiten zu diesem Thema sind in dem vorliegenden Band zusammengefa~t, der Zugangund Einblick in die modernen M|glichkeiten der Mikrochirurgie zur Rekonstuktion nach Trauma v...

Die Beurteilung von Steuersystemen ist nach neuerem Theorieverständnis kein Gegenstand von Wertungen, sondern ist von der Erwünschtheit ihrer ökonomischen Wirkungen abhängig. Für die Erfassung von Steuerwirkungen erweisen sich die in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerplanung entwickelten Entscheidungskalküle als ideale Voraussetzung. In einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung liegt das Ideal eines Steuersystems in seiner grundsätzlichen Entscheid...

weitere Publikationen hin­ gewiesen werden, in denen Vortrage der Tagung Operations Research 90 enthalten sind.

With the rapid growth of integration scale of VLSI chips and the present need for reliable computers in space exploration, fault diagnosis and fault toleran­ ce have become more important than before, and hence reveal a lot of interest­ ing topics which attract many researchers to make a great number of contribu­ tions to this field. In recent years, many new and significant results have been achieved. A quick scan over the proceedings of the ...

Connectionism in Context aims to broaden and extend the debate concerning the significance of connectionist models. The volume collects together a variety of perspectives by experimental and developmental psychologists, philosophers and active AI researchers. These contributions relate con- nectionist ideas to historical psychlogical debates, e.g., over behaviourism and associationism, to develop- mental and philosophical issues. The r...

A workshop to look at strategies, methods of implementation and evaluation of vocational training and Continuing Medical Education in General Practice was held in June 1990 in London. This text represents papers written by contributors to the workshop and pre-circulated papers which describe health systems and educational realities in six countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the UK. The first part of the books compares the ...

THE VENETIAN VESPERS (1979)"In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht's poetry goes from strength to strength. The Venetian Vespers is at once an intense corroboration and an ample extension of his subtle, supple talents. Nothing humane is alien to him… There is a handful of short poems that are fostered alike by beauty and fear. But it is the four long poems that confirm Hecht as a poet of the widest apprehensions and compr...

Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of 'the society of the spectacle.

An exercise book with a difference, STRETCH AND STRENGTHEN features 100 exercises, fully illustrated, which apply the invaluable system introduced in SURVIVING EXERCISE. Soundly based on exercise philosophy and on new discoveries in kinesiology and sports medicine, the book fits the individual needs of everyone who exercises, from sedentary beginner to professional athlete.

For some time now, writer-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray has been carrying around with him a monster: a manuscript of a novel called Impossible Vacation, a book that at last sighting weighed in at about 1, 800 pages. Monster in a Box is a guided tour between the stations of his writing block, which include a field trip to Nicaragua, a disastrous guest appearance at the Moscow film festival, and a stint in Los Angeles hunting down the f...