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Much progress has been made in elucidating the mechanisms that regulate the induction and progression of inflammatory diseases. More recently, however, it has become apparent that the manipulation of...

Biological processes in any living organism are based on selective interactions be- tween particular biomolecules. In most cases, these interactions involve and are driven by proteins, which are the...

The book serves as an introduction to holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds, focusing on the case of four-dimensional symplectizations and symplectic cobordisms, and their applications to...

The Road to Universal Logic: Festschrift for 50th Birthday of Jean-Yves B?ziau Volume IAuthor: Arnold KoslowPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 24, 2014Number of Pages: 520 pagesBinding:...

This second volume of a collection of papers offers new perspectives and challenges in the study of logic. It is presented in honor of the fiftieth birthday of Jean-Yves B?ziau. The papers touch upon...

The design of multi-agent systems in complex, open environments can benefit from social abstractions in order to cope with problems in coordination, cooperation and trust among agents, problems which...

Bartel Leendert van der Waerden made major contributions to algebraic geometry, abstract algebra, quantum mechanics, and other fields. He liberally published on the history of mathematics. His...

The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of mathematical problems first published in the United States by Birkh?user in 1981. These problems serve...

Perspectives on Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Inflammation is a very complicated process of interrelated events and cas- cades that does not allow for an easily defined, focused attack for drug discovery...

The Search for Antiviral Drugs: Case Histories from Concept to ClinicAuthor: MerluzziPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 02, 2013Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The self-avoiding walk is a mathematical model that has important applications in statistical mechanics and polymer science. In spite of its simple definition--a path on a lattice that does not visit...

Dear Reader, Here is your book. Take it, run with it, pass it, punt it, enjoy all the many things that you can do with it, but-above all-read it. Like all textbooks, it was written to help you...

FOREWORD This book came about as a result of two events: an exhibition on the Solvay Physics Councils, held in Brussels in May 1995, and a conference on the same theme which took place at the Free...

This book is the eighth in a series of Proceedings for the S eminaire Poincar e, which is directed towards a large audience of physicists and of mathematicians. The goal of this seminar is to...

Over the past eighty years, martingales have become central in the mathematics of randomness. They appear in the general theory of stochastic processes, in the algorithmic theory of randomness, and...

This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the theory of opposition (square, hexagon, octagon, polyhedra of opposition) by the best specialists from all over the world. The papers...

Thisvolumeofthe Operator Theory: Advances and Applications series (OTAA) isthe ?rst volume of a new subseries. This subseries is dedicated to connections between the theory of linear operators and...

This book provides a successful solution to one of the central problems of mathematical fluid mechanics: the Leray?s problem on existence of a solution to the boundary value problem for the...

The Second International CBT (Center for Biotechnology) Synposium was held in Stockholm November 4-5 1988 and had the title "The steroid/thyroid hoITIDne receptor family and gene regulation". This...

This book deals with the constructive Weierstrassian approach to the theory of function spaces and various applications. The first chapter is devoted to a detailed study of quarkonial (subatomic)...

The rapid development of set theory in the last fifty years, mainly by obtaining plenty of independence results, strongly influenced an understanding of the structure of the real line. This book is...

This book reproduces and comments John Woodall's handbook which was used as standard text for medical treatment at sea in the seventeenth century and was the first instruction for medical service...

The framework of 'symmetry' provides an important route between the abstract theory and experimental observations, especially for the study of pattern formation in physical systems. The book applies...

The framework of 'symmetry' provides an important route between the abstract theory and experimental observations, especially for the study of pattern formation in physical systems. The book applies...

The functions studied in this monogra9h are a cross between elliptic functions and modular forms in one variable. Specifically, we define a Jacobi form on SL ( ) to be a holomorphic function 2 (JC =...

Collects both classical and recent results into a single, comprehensive sourceProvides all necessary proofs in full detailCan be used as a standard reference on the topic by both graduate students...

The Tower of Hanoi - Myths and MathsAuthor: Andreas M. HinzPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Jan 31, 2013Number of Pages: 335 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3034802366ISBN-13:...

This is the first comprehensive study about the non-mathematical writings and activities of the Russian algebraic geometer and number theorist Igor Shafarevich (b. 1923). In the 1970s Shafarevich was...

The Visual System from Genesis to MaturityAuthor: LentPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Oct 02, 2013Number of Pages: 285 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1489967281ISBN-13:...

The discovery of quantum mechanics in the years 1925-1930 necessitated the consideration of associating ordinary functions with non-commuting operators. Methods were proposed by Born/Jordan,...