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Award-winning monograph of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 1997. This book is a self-contained exposition of the spectral theory of Toeplitz operators with piecewise continuous symbols and...

Twenty years after the idea of this Carotenoids book series was first discussed, we are finally reaching the end of the project. Carotenoids Volumes 4 and 5 now move us into the great field of...

Though the Handbook serves as a unique comprehensive reference book on the known carotenoids, it is designed to be used in conjunction with the Carotenoids series. The numbering of carotenoids in the...

George Britton, Synnl/Jve Liaaen-Jensen and Hanspeter Pfander This book, Volume 2 in the series Carotenoids, is the first book to be published that is devoted entirely to the total synthesis of...

CarotinoideAuthor: Paul KarrerPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Jan 01, 1948Number of Pages: 388 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3034867891ISBN-13: 9783034867894

Presents the general theory of categorical closure operators together with examples and applications to the most common categories, e.g., topological spaces, fuzzy topological spaces, groups, and...

This book is a revised edition of the monograph which appeared under the same title in the series Research Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Pit- man, in 1986. In addition to a general effort to...

The book consists of articles at the frontier of current research in Algebraic Topology. It presents recent results by top notch experts, and is intended primarily for researchers and graduate...

"Categorical Perspectives" consists of introductory surveys as well as articles containing original research and complete proofs devoted mainly to the theoretical and foundational developments of...

This unique book offers an introductory course on category theory, which became a working language in algebraic geometry and number theory in the 1950s and began to spread to logic and computer...

Disorder is one of the central topics in science today. Over the past 15 years various aspects of the effects of disorder have changed a number of paradigms in mathematics and physics. One such...

The concept of using encapsulation for the immunoprotection of transplanted cells was introduced for the first time in the 1960s. "[Microencapsulated cells] might be protected from destruction and...

Rapid progress has been made in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cell growth and oncogenesis during the past decade. This book comprises recent results on the regulation of cell...

Cell motility is an important component of many basic physiologic and pathologic processes. Understanding mechanisms of cell motility is therefore essential to the development of new research and...

This book contains a collection of original research articles and review articles that describe novel mathematical modeling techniques and the application of those techniques to models of cell...

Airways disease encompasses a broad range of pathologies including Bronchial Asthma, Rhinitis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Bronchitis, Acute Bronchiolitis, Emphysema and Fibrosing...

Our knowledge of cholinergic synaptic transmission in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) has expanded enormously since the early 1930's, at which time O. Loewi discovered chemical neurotransmission...

Central Configurations, Periodic Orbits, and Hamiltonian SystemsAuthor: Jaume LlibrePublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Dec 29, 2015Number of Pages: 232 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

High blood pressure disease is one of the most prevalent pathological conditions in modem society with potentially serious consequences. During the last two decades major progress has been made in...

With the help of recent technological advances in the study of cen- tral nervous system function, important strides have been made in our knowledge regarding the pathophysiology of high blood pres-...

Through its rapid progress in the last decade, HOOcontrol became an established control technology to achieve desirable performances of con- trol systems. Several highly developed software packages...

This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader...

This twelfth volume in the Poincar? Seminar Series presents a complete and interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Chaos, both in classical mechanics in its deterministic version, and in...

Chaotische Symmetrien: Die Suche Nach Mustern in Mathematik, Kunst Und NaturAuthor: FieldPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 219 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Differential-difference Equations in Entire Functions.- Inverse Stieltjes-like Functions and Inverse Problems for Systems with Schr?dinger Operator.- Bi-Isometries and Commutant Lifting.- The...

Every mathematician working in Banaeh spaee geometry or Approximation theory knows, from his own experienee, that most "natural" geometrie properties may faH to hold in a generalnormed spaee unless...

We have again brought together for the Third International Symposium on Charge and Field Effects in Biosystems (July 21-27, 1991), a group of scientists whose interests reside in the fields of...

This monograph meticulously examines the contributions of French mathematician Michel Chasles to 19th-century geometry. Through an in-depth analysis of Chasles' extensive body of work, the author...

0 Introduction.- 1 Auxiliary Results.- 2 Maximization of Functionals in H? [a, b] and Perfect ?-Splines.- 3 Fredholm Kernels.- 4 Review of Classical Chebyshev Polynomial Splines.- 5 Additive...

Allelochemicals play a great role in managed and natural ecosystems. Apart from plant growth, allelochemicals also may influence nutrient dynamics, mycorrhizae, soil chemical characteristics, and...