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The present volume deals with the most fascinating aspects of sensory performance studied in insects, crustaceans and spiders. Arthropods inhabit practically every conceivable ecological niche, and...

If it is true that science proceeds from a romantic through a scientific to a technological stage, then research on bird orientation is certainly on its move from its first to its second grade, and...

This book is for undergraduates, postgraduates and research workers who wish to gain an insight into present ideas and speculations on the origin of granite batholiths. It is a summary of the...

This book covers a multitude of Alpine-type working areas and processes active in collisional mountain building in the form of 16 selected very up-to-date review and research articles covering the...

This paper is a largely expository account of the theory of p x p matrix polyno- mials associated with Hermitian block Toeplitz matrices and some related problems of interpolation and extension...

Dieses Buch behandelt die allgemeine Theorie der Orthogonalpoly- nome beztiglich einer nichtnegativen Belegung tiber der reellen Zahlen- geraden. Ala Vorkenntnis wurde bei dem Leser - auBer den...

Oskar W?lterlin: Ein ProfilAuthor: LoefflerPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 251 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3034866909ISBN-13: 9783034866903

Output Feedback Reinforcement Learning Control for Linear SystemsAuthor: Syed Ali Asad RizviPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Nov 30, 2023Number of Pages: 294 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The problem of controlling the output of a system so as to achieve asymptotic tracking of prescribed trajectories and/or asymptotic re- jection of undesired disturbances is a central problem in...

0.1 Gaps in Optimizing A comparison of the levels of development of Operations Research, Simulation Technique and Optimal Control Theory appears to gain increasing interest. Operations Research...

Oxidative stress and aging Over the past several years there has been an extraordinarily rapid growth in our knowledge of free radical chemistry and its possible involvement in both normal essential...

Free radicals and oxidative damage in biology and medicine: An introduction.- Oxidative metabolism in skeletal muscle.- Strategies to assess oxidative stress.- The course of exercise-induced skeletal...

Since the appearance of photosynthesis on our planet, all living organisms have been facing a new abundant, extremely reactive element, oxygen. This element is used for the synthesis of highly...

Oxygen free radicals and other reactive oxygen species are being postulated as causal agents in an increasing number of pathological conditions. Indeed, some investigators are suggesting that highly...

Pad?-Type Approximation and General Orthogonal PolynomialsAuthor: BrezinskiPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11, 2014Number of Pages: 250 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Bronchial asthma is a disease with many unsolved problems and despite an increased availabili ty of anti-asthma drugs, morbidi ty and mortality from this disease are not improving. It is now...

Pain and inflammation are inextricably linked phenomena. The observation that chemical mediators with combined pro-inflammatory, algesic and/or hyperalgesic activity occur at the site of inflammation...

Die Pal?kologie hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine dynamische Entwicklung erfahren. Im Vordergrund pal?kologischer Forschung stehen heute nicht mehr nur die Rekonstruktion der abiotischen Umwelt,...

The present monograph is devoted to the theory of general parabolic boundary value problems. The vastness of this theory forced us to take difficult decisions in selecting the results to be presented...

Parabolic Problems: The Herbert Amann FestschriftAuthor: Joachim EscherPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Jul 20, 2011Number of Pages: 717 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This book covers with great detail the mathematical developments in total variation based image restauration. It contains a full analysis of quasilinear parabolic equations whose operator is in...

Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Scandinavia and Policy Proposals for SwitzerlandAuthor: Cédric Julien PogetPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Nov 19, 2007Number of Pages: 150...

Parallelimporte Von Arzneimitteln: Erfahrungen Aus Skandinavien Und Lehren Für Die SchweizAuthor: Cédric Julien PogetPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Nov 19, 2007Number of Pages: 58...

Parametric and semiparametric models are tools with a wide range of applications to reliability, survival analysis, and quality of life. This self-contained volume examines these tools in survey...

Parametric Optimization and Approximation: Conference Held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, October 16-22, 1983Author: ParametricPublisher: BirkhauserPublication Date: Apr 11,...

Weak convergence is a basic tool of modern nonlinear analysis because it enjoys the same compactness properties that finite dimensional spaces do: basically, bounded sequences are weak relatively...

It is a great pleasure for me to introduce this great deal of information from various insti- manual for the diagnosis of parasites of domes- tutes and universities. tic animals. It is a unique...

Pierre Grisvard, one of the most distinguished French mathematicians, died on April 22, 1994. A Conference was held in November 1994 out of which grew the invited articles contained in this volume...

Mark Vishik was one of the prominent figures in the theory of partial differential equations. His ground-breaking contributions were instrumental in integrating the methods of functional analysis...

Capturing the state of the art of the interplay between partial differential equations, functional analysis, maximal regularity, and probability theory, this volume was initiated at the Delft...