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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on la...

Der erste Teil dieses Buches spiegelt die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Risikopotentialen, ethischen Problemen und sozialen Folgen der Gentechnik wieder, während der zweite Teil den Fragen nach den gesellschaftlichen und politischen Formen des Umgangs mit Technik und kontroversen Technikbeurteilungen nachgeht.

Ausgehend von der Theorie der Fuzzy-Mengen und Fuzzy-Logik werden neue Methoden zur Analyse unscharfer Daten entwickelt. Dazu wird die Theorie der Formalen Begriffsanalyse in einer Reihe von Methoden und Verfahren erweitert und somit der Forderung von Anwendern nach Möglichkeiten zur begriffsanalytischen Erfassung unscharfer Daten Rechnung getragen. Die benötigten theoretischen Grundlagen werden einführend bereitgestellt, die mathematische Dar...

The purpose of "Artificial Intelligence Techniques: A Comprehensive Cata­ logue" is to promote interaction between members of the AI community. It does this by announcing the existence of AI techniques, and acting as a pointer into the literature. Thus the AI community has access to a common, extensional definition of the field, which promotes a common terminology, discourages the reinvention of wheels, and acts as a clearing house for ideas a...

Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE.His thoughts form a consistent and coherent philosophical system, and a close study of his writings in Persian reveals a theory of knowledge generally called 'Knowledge by Presence'. The elaborate web of myth and symbolism in Suhrawardi's philosophy articulates his theory of knowledge, an important su...

Reconstructs a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves) by arguing that the literature of race in antebellum America is the continuing story of an encounter with the grotesque. The focus is on literature-from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and their contemporaries. But Cassuto also ranges fr...

The aim of this contemporary textbook is to show students that thermodynamics is a useful tool, not just a series of theoretical exercises. Written in a conversational style, the text presents the second law in a totally new manner--there is no reliance on statistical arguments, instead it is developed as a natural consequence of physical experience. Students are not required to write complex, iterative computer programs to solve phase equilib...

Large cardinal hypotheses play a central role in modern set theory. One important way to understand such hypotheses is to construct concrete, minimal universes, or "core models", satisfying them. Since Gödel's pioneering work on the universe of constructible sets, several larger core models satisfying stronger hypotheses have been constructed, and these have proved quite useful. Here the author extends this theory so that it can produce core m...

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen verschiedene käuferverhaltenstheoretische Ansätze zur Erklärung von Geschäftstreue, die wichtigsten Meßkonzepte sowie die aus Sicht des Einzelhandels bedeutendsten Determinanten der Geschäftstreue.

Der Autor analysiert das sozialistische Steuersystem Ungarns und zeigt dessen Mängel vor dem Hintergrund der Systemtransformation auf. Darauf aufbauend stellt der Autor die Reform der einzelnen Steuerarten kritisch dar.

A guide to the fundamentals of political thought. Zeitlin shows that certain thinkers have given us insights that rise above historical context ? 'trans-historical principles' that can provide the political scientist with an element of foresight.

Der Autor entwickelt ein Simulationssystem, mit dem unterschiedliche Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Redistribution von Mehrwegverpackungen im Hinblick auf Kosten verglichen und beurteilt werden können. Das Leistungsvermögen des Simulators wird an verschiedenen Szenarioanalysen exemplarisch verdeutlicht.

Um ihre Leistungen besser auf die Bedürfnisse der Kunden auszurichten und um Zeit- und Kostenvorteile zu realisieren, gehen Unternehmen verstärkt dazu über, ihre internen Prozesse als Kunden-Lieferanten-Beziehungen zu gestalten. Dieses Buch gibt Handlungsempfehlungen für das Management derartiger Beziehungen.

Population aging raises a number of issues regarding the optimality of public debt policy and the systems of public pension provisions that are in use in developed countries. The studies in this book address these questions using computable general equilibrium models. They give illuminating insights and new empirical estimates of future prospects of pay-as-you-go pension schemes in the "big seven" OECD countries, the possible distortions intro...

Retuning Culture" explores vital new ground in the way musical--as opposed to broad cultural--change has occurred recently in Eastern and Central Europe. It adds substantially to our knowledge of how musical behavior, performance, and traditions act and are acted upon in providing both continuity and adaptation to change."--James Porter, University of California, Los Angeles

In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi We...

This is the first collection of Buddhist legends in Japan, and these stories form the repertoire of miraculous events and moral examples that later Buddhist priests used for preaching to the people. As Kyokai describes his own intentions, By editing these stories of miraculous events I want to pull the people forward by the ears, offer my hand to lead them to good, and show them how to cleanse their feet of evil (p.222).Nakamura's book is actu...

For centuries the history of the Mohawk Valley has been shaped by the complex relationships among the valley's native inhabitants, the Mohawk Indians, and its colonists, starting with the Dutch. In Mohawk Country collects for the first time the principal documentary narratives that reveal the full scope of this Mohawk-settler interaction. Some of the sources have never before been translated into English, and several have not been previously p...

As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This pioneering set of studies traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central and Eastern Europe from the first harbingers of...

Buddhist meditation has given rise to much literature. This collection of readings offers representitive examples of those writings and the principal relevant texts, covering four main headings: "Pali Sources", "Classical Masters", "Contemporary Masters" and "Personal Accounts".