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Handbook of Monetary Economics (Hardcover): Benjamin M. Friedman, F.H. Hahn Handbook of Monetary Economics (Hardcover)
Benjamin M. Friedman, F.H. Hahn
R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Due to the fundamental two-way interaction between the theoretical and the empirical aspects of monetary economics, together with the relationship of both to matters of public policy, any organization of material comprehensively spanning the subject is bound to be arbitrary. The 23 surveys commissioned for this Handbook have been arranged in a way that the editors feel reflects some of the most important logical divisions within the field and together they present a comprehensive account of the current state of the art. The Handbook is an indispensable reference work which should be part of every professional collection, and which makes ideal supplementary reading for graduate economics students on advanced courses.

For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http: //www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Current Advances in Mechanical Design and Production VI (Hardcover): M.E. Elarabi, A.S. Wifi Current Advances in Mechanical Design and Production VI (Hardcover)
M.E. Elarabi, A.S. Wifi
R6,337 Discovery Miles 63 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The International Conference on Mechanical Design and Production has been established since 1979 by the Department of Mechanical Design and Production at Cairo University.

The conference MDP-6 held in Cairo, 2-4 January 1996, represents the 6th in the series. Its aim was to highlight the current advances in mechanical design and production, and to disseminate the latest developments from academic and industrial institutions in all related scientific disciplines.

This publication includes a selection of papers submitted to the conference and reviewed by members of the scientific committee. The main areas of the papers include: materials processing and characterization constitutive modeling; simulation and analysis of manufacturing processes; numerical analysis of structures; fracture analysis; design and tribology; dynamics, control and robotics; and new trends in industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Progress in Optics, Volume 34 (Hardcover): Emil Wolf Progress in Optics, Volume 34 (Hardcover)
Emil Wolf
R5,240 Discovery Miles 52 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents a review of the research in several areas of modern optics written by experts well-known in the international scientific community. The first chapter discusses properties and methods of production and detection of coherent superpositions of macroscopically distinguishable states of light (the so-called Schrodinger cat states). Chapter two deals with the phase-shift method, which originated in the 1930s, for the analysis of potential-scattering problems in atomic and nuclear physics. Recently this approach has been applied to wave propagation in one-dimensional inhomogeneous media. Chapter three is concerned with the statistical properties of dynamic laser speckles that arise from scattering objects with rough surfaces undergoing translation and rotation. A moving phase-screen model is employed, which gives a relatively simple formulation of the theory and a clear picture of the time-varying speckle phenomenon. The fourth chapter presents a review of the more important theoretical and experimental results relating to optics of multilayer systems with randomly rough boundaries. The significant theoretical approaches which make it possible to interpret experimental data involving such systems are described, and relevant methods for optical characterization of systems of this kind are outlined. The last chapter presents an account of a theory of the photon transport through turbid media.

Infinite Dimensional Linear Control Systems, Volume 201 - The Time Optimal and Norm Optimal Problems (Hardcover): H.O. Fattorini Infinite Dimensional Linear Control Systems, Volume 201 - The Time Optimal and Norm Optimal Problems (Hardcover)
H.O. Fattorini
R4,735 Discovery Miles 47 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than forty years, the equation y (t) = Ay(t) + u(t) in Banach spaces has been used as model for optimal control processes described by partial differential equations, in particular heat and diffusion processes. Many of the outstanding open problems, however, have remained open until recently, and some have never been solved. This book is a survey of all results know to the author, with emphasis on very recent results (1999 to date).


The book is restricted to linear equations and two particular problems (the time optimal problem, the norm optimal problem) which results in a more focused and concrete treatment. As experience shows, results on linear equations are the basis for the treatment of their semilinear counterparts, and techniques for the time and norm optimal problems can often be generalized to more general cost functionals.


The main object of this book is to be a state-of-the-art monograph on the theory of the time and norm optimal controls for y (t) = Ay(t) + u(t) that ends at the very latest frontier of research, with open problems and indications for future research.


Key features:


. Applications to optimal diffusion processes.
. Applications to optimal heat propagation processes.
. Modelling of optimal processes governed by partial
differential equations.
. Complete bibliography.
. Includes the latest research on the subject.
. Does not assume anything from the reader except
basic functional analysis.
. Accessible to researchers and advanced graduate
students alike
. Applications to optimal diffusion processes.
. Applications to optimal heat propagation processes.
. Modelling of optimal processes governed by partial
differential equations.
. Complete bibliography.
. Includes the latest research on the subject.
. Does not assume anything from the reader except
basic functional analysis.
. Accessible to researchers and advanced graduate
students alike"

Research in Accounting Regulation, Supplement 1 - Tenth Anniversary, Special International Edition (Hardcover, 10th anniversary... Research in Accounting Regulation, Supplement 1 - Tenth Anniversary, Special International Edition (Hardcover, 10th anniversary special international ed)
Gary John Previts, Larry Parker, Robert K. Eskew
R2,380 Discovery Miles 23 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part of a series which aims to present work across a broad spectrum of regulation issues, with papers covering a wide range of topics. The volumes review essays of recent books, offering insights into regulation and its processes. A glossary related to securities, law and accounting is included.

The Nucleosome (Hardcover): A. P. Wolffe The Nucleosome (Hardcover)
A. P. Wolffe
R2,054 Discovery Miles 20 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first in a series of volumes concerning the properties of the eukaryotic nucleus. Contributions from several of the most active laboratories are brought together to present a focused overview of a selected aspect of nuclear structure and function.

Physical Techniques in the Study of Art, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Volume 1 (Hardcover): David Bradley, Dudley Cecil... Physical Techniques in the Study of Art, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
David Bradley, Dudley Cecil Creagh
R3,302 Discovery Miles 33 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is the first of a series on Physical Techniques in the Study of Art, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. It follows a successful earlier publication by Elsevier (Radiation in Art and Archaeometry).
There has been an upsurge of interest world wide in cultural heritage issues, and in particular, large organizations such as UNESCO and the European Union are active in providing funding for a very diverse range of projects in cultural heritage preservation. It is perceived that it is essential to preserve the cultural heritage of societies, both to benefit the future generations of those societies, and to inform other cultures.
A growing need exists for the education of conservators and restorers because it is these professionals who will make decisions on how best to preserve our cultural heritage. This book series therefore has as its primary aim, the dissemination of technical information on scientific conservation to scientific conservators, museum curators, conservation science students, and other interested people.
Scientific conservation, as a discipline, is a comparatively modern concept. Interested scientists have for many years addressed scientific problems associated with cultural heritage artefacts. But their involvement has been sporadic and driven by the needs of individual museums, rather than a personal lifetime study of issues of conservation of for example, buildings, large functional objects, paintings, and so on.
In this book series contributors will come from both interested scientists and the museum-based scientists. The authors have been selected with an eye to involving young, and well as established, scientists.
Dr Jean Louis Boutaine, was Head of the Research Department of the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musees de France at the Louvre. Dr Boutaine has had a most distinguished career within the conservation science community. He writes here on the concept of the Modern Museum.
Professor Casali is responsible for the teaching of Archaeometry at the University of Bologna. He has developed advanced equipment for both micro-Computer Tomography and for large-object Computer Tomography. His chapter deals with X-ray, neutron, and digital radiography as applied to the study of objects of cultural heritage significance.
Professor Tim Wess holds the Chair of Biomaterials in the Biophysics Division in the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Cardiff University. The systems in which he is interested contain collagen, fibrillin, and cellulose (which relate, in the cultural heritage discipline, to an interest in parchment and papers). A parallel interest is in the structure of bone and artificial composite materials (which relates to his interest in historical studies of bone materials). Chapter 3 will describe the techniques used to study alteration to structure of minerals in the bone. Preservation of intact bone mineral crystallites has been shown to relate to the endurance of amplifiable ancient DNA from archaeological and fossil bone. In collaboration with Drs K. Nielsen and Rene Larsen (School of Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark) Tim Wess has analyzed the deterioration of historic parchments and also simulated ageing processes.
Chapter 5 has been written by Dr Andrew Hardy who began studying Middle Eastern eye cosmetics (kohls) in the early 1990's whilst working in Oman. He has continued thiswork at the Centre for Medical History, School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies, Exeter University. The chapter summarizes and reviews the usage and composition of kohls in ancient (Pharaonic) Egypt. It also gives information, from later time periods, on kohl usage and its recipes, which have been studied using a wide range of experimental techniques.
- Written in a style that is readily understandable by conservation scientists, archaeologists, museum curators, and students
- Provides an introduction to the advanced fields of synchrotron radiation science, neutron science, and computed tomography
- Outstanding review of the use of modern technology to study museum and archaeological artifacts
- Offers solutions through advanced scientific techniques to a wide range of problems facing museum staff

Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 14 (Hardcover): B. M. Staw Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 14 (Hardcover)
B. M. Staw
R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Volume 22 of Research in Organizational Behavior continues the tradition of innovation and theoretical development with eight diverse papers. Most of these papers present theory and propositions that make linkages between different levels of analysis.

Research in Accounting Regulation, Volume 14 (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Gary Previts Research in Accounting Regulation, Volume 14 (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Gary Previts
R2,712 Discovery Miles 27 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The scope of service provided by professional accountants is influenced by legislation and case law as well as the dictates of a variety of government and private sector agencies; including State Boards of Accountancy, Academic Accreditation Bodies, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, independent standard setting bodies such as the Federal Accounting
Standards Advisory Board US], the Financial Accounting Standards Board US], and self-regulatory organizations such as State Societies of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. There are equivalent and emerging national bodies that exist in most developed and developing countries, and further there are emerging global coordinating entities as well, which attempt to coordinate the activities among nations. It is important for academics, students, practitioners, regulators and researchers to consider, study and understand the role and relationship of such bodies with the practice and content of our discipline.
Research in Accounting Regulation is a refereed annual serial that seeks to publish high quality manuscripts, which address regulatory issues and policy affecting the practice of accountancy, broadly defined. Topics of interest include research based upon: self-regulatory activities, case law and litigation,
government and quasi-governmental regulation, and the economics of regulation, including modeling.
The serial aims to encourage the submission of original empirical, behavioral or applied research manuscripts that consider strategic and policy implications for regulation, regulatory models and markets.

Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture, Volume 25 (Hardcover): E. Macha, W. Bedkowski, T. Lagoda Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture, Volume 25 (Hardcover)
E. Macha, W. Bedkowski, T. Lagoda
R5,191 Discovery Miles 51 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume contains 18 papers selected from 90 presented at the Fifth International Conference on Biaxial/Multiaxial Fatigue and Fracture held in Cracow, Poland 8-12 September 1997. The papers in this book deal with theoretical, computational and experimental aspects of the multiaxial fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures. The papers are divided into the following four categories:
1. Proportional cyclic loading
2. Non-proportional cyclic loading
3. Variable amplitude and random loading
4. Crack growth

Most papers in this publication talk about the behaviour of constructional materials and elements of machines under non-proportional loading and under variable amplitude and random loading, which are more realistic load histories met in industrial practice. Variable amplitude loading under cyclic load with basic frequency and random loading under load with a continuous band of frequency is classified here. This book gives a review of the latest world success and directions of investigations on multiaxial fatigue and fracture. More and more often publications are results of the co-operation of researchers from different laboratories and countries. Seven out of eighteen papers included here were worked out by international authors teams. This is a symptom of the times, when science and investigations know no borders.

Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules, Volume 2 (Hardcover): George R. Newkome Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
George R. Newkome
R3,166 Discovery Miles 31 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The series "Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules" aims to cover the synthetic, as well as chemical, aspects of this expanding field: the chemistry to and supramolecular chemistry of dendritic or cascade supermolecular compounds. In Chapter 1 of this volume, Hawker and Wooley delineate the convergent growth approach to dendrimers, then relate their three-dimensional architectures to different block polymers. In Chapter 2, Moors and Vogtle describe Professor Vogtle's initial cascade molecules via the repetitive strategy, then expand his original concepts of its application by others, and lastly delineate the synthesis of a new series of tosylamide cascades. They also demonstrate the utility of his original Michael addition/reduction procedure by its application to differ cores. Chapter 3, composed by Professor Engel, describes ionic dendrimers which incorporated an internal transition metal center as well as his work based on ammonium and phosphonium centers. In Chapter 4, Mathias and Carothers review recent studies on silicon-based dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers. Chapter 5, by Kim, describes the preparation and utility of hyperbranched aromatic polymers. Lastly in Chapter 6, Escamilla reviews the historical as well as recent examples of ionic and nonionic bolaamphiphiles.

Research in Organizational Behaviour, v. 18 (Hardcover): L. L. Cummings, Barry M. Staw Research in Organizational Behaviour, v. 18 (Hardcover)
L. L. Cummings, Barry M. Staw
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the 18th volume in an annual series of reviews of research in organizational behaviour. This volume covers such topics as affective events theory, motivational agendas in the workplace and consequences of public security for leaders and their organizations.

Advances in Carbene Chemistry, Volume 2 (Hardcover): U. H. Brinker Advances in Carbene Chemistry, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
U. H. Brinker
R3,676 Discovery Miles 36 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Beginning as chemical curiosities, carbenes are now solidly established as reactive intermediates with fascinating and productive research areas of their own. Five decades of divalent carbon chemistry have provided us with a vast repertoire of new, unusual and surprising reactions. Some of those reactions, once classified as exotic, have become standard methods in organic synthesis. These highly reactive carbene species have been harnessed and put to work to achieve difficult synthetic tasks that other reactive intermediates cannot easily perform.
The fruitful relationship between experiment and theory has pushed carbene chemistry further toward the direction of reaction control; that is, regio- and stereoselectivity in intra- and intermolecular addition and insertion reactions. The interplay between experiment and modern spectroscopy has led to the characterisation of many carbenes that are crucial to both an understanding and a further development of this field.
Understanding of carbene chemistry has advanced dramatically, especially in the last decade, and new developments continue to emerge. Some of the recent exciting findings have been collected in the first volume of "Advances in Carbene Chemistry." With this second volume, the series will continue to provide a periodic coverage of carbene chemistry in its broadest sense - leading into the next century.

Ecological and Silvicultural Strategies for Sustainable Forest Management (Hardcover, 1st ed): T. Fujimori Ecological and Silvicultural Strategies for Sustainable Forest Management (Hardcover, 1st ed)
T. Fujimori
R4,975 Discovery Miles 49 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recognizing the increased interest in forest management world wide, this book addresses the current knowledge gap by defining sustainable forest management, clarifying methods by which ecological knowledge can be applied and how traditional silvicultural methods can be improved.


Sustainable forest management involves the enhancement of various aspects of forest functions such as conservation of biodiversity, conservation of soil and water resources, contribution to the global carbon cycle as well as wood production. To establish ecological and silvicultural theories to enhance these functions harmoniously, recognizing the relationship between stand structures and their functions is essential.


This volume presents target stand structures for aimed forest functions in relation to stand development stages, as well as ecological and silvicultural methods to lead and maintain them. Ecological and silvicultural strategies are discussed, both on stand and landscape levels, and from local to international levels in temperate and boreal forest zones.

Progress in Optics (Hardcover): Emil Wolf Progress in Optics (Hardcover)
Emil Wolf
R5,248 Discovery Miles 52 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hardbound. This volume contains six review articles dealing with topics of current research interest in optics and in related fields.The first article deals with the so-called embedding method, which has found many useful applications in the study of wave propagation in random media. The second article presents a review of an interesting class of non-linear optical phenomena which have their origin in the dependence of the complex dielectric constant of some media on the light intensity. These phenomena which include self-focusing, self-trapping and self-modulation have found many applications, for example in fiber optics devices, signal processing and computer technology. The next article is concerned with gap solitons which are electromagnetic field structures which can exist in nonlinear media that have periodic variation in their linear optical properties, with periodicities of the order of the wavelength of light. Both qualitative and quantitative

Numerical Methods for Roots of Polynomials - Part I, Volume 14 (Hardcover, 14th edition): J. M. McNamee Numerical Methods for Roots of Polynomials - Part I, Volume 14 (Hardcover, 14th edition)
J. M. McNamee
R5,013 Discovery Miles 50 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book (along with volume 2 covers most of the traditional methods for polynomial root-finding such as Newton s, as well as numerous variations on them invented in the last few decades. Perhaps more importantly it covers recent developments such as Vincent s method, simultaneous iterations, and matrix methods. There is an extensive chapter on evaluation of polynomials, including parallel methods and errors. There are pointers to robust and efficient programs. In short, it could be entitled A Handbook of Methods for Polynomial Root-finding . This book will be invaluable to anyone doing research in polynomial roots, or teaching a graduate course on that topic.


- First comprehensive treatment of Root-Finding in several decades.
- Gives description of high-grade software and where it can be down-loaded.
- Very up-to-date in mid-2006; long chapter on matrix methods.
- Includes Parallel methods, errors where appropriate.
- Invaluable for research or graduate course.

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Origins of Phobias and Anxiety Disorders - Why More Women than Men? (Hardcover): Michelle G. Craske Origins of Phobias and Anxiety Disorders - Why More Women than Men? (Hardcover)
Michelle G. Craske
R3,469 Discovery Miles 34 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first title to be published in the "BRAT Series on Clinical Psychology", this book presents a critical analysis of the theories and empirical evidence to date regarding the origins of phobias and anxiety disorders, and the reasons why more women than men suffer from them. The book moves from a discussion of non-specific temperament to specific risk factors for each anxiety disorder, assuming a hierarchical aetiological model throughout. At each level of analysis, the issue of gender differences is addressed. For example, broad temperamental factors such as traits of negative affectivity and poor emotional regulation are reviewed in terms of their relevance to the group of disorders with which anxiety disorders tend to cluster, such as depression and substance abuse. Biological contributions are covered, along with early life experiences including parenting styles and expectations, and early stressors. The components of anxiety - hypervigilance, threat-laden belief systems and avoidant style - are presented as being common across the anxiety disorders and self-perpetuating. Types of ongoing life experiences that influence the development of one type of anxiety disorder over another are reviewed. Each anxiety disorder is then addressed in detail after considering general principles of fear acquisition and persistence.

Statistical Analysis of Regional Yield Trials: AMMI Analysis of Factorial Designs (Hardcover): H G Gauch Jr Statistical Analysis of Regional Yield Trials: AMMI Analysis of Factorial Designs (Hardcover)
H G Gauch Jr
R7,468 Discovery Miles 74 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the last few years, many journal articles have shown the usefulness of the Additive Main Effects and Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI) model for analyzing regional yield trials. AMMI helps agronomists and breeders in several ways: to understand or model complex data sets, especially the interactions; to estimate yields more accurately, even with less data; to make better selections; and to design more efficient yield-trial experiments.

This book is the first systematic treatment of these topics, collecting concepts from the scattered literature and also presenting many new results. Although agricultural applications are emphasized here, AMMI is applicable to two-way data tables containing one kind of data, either replicated or not, so AMMI appears in many areas of science and technology.

The volume's first seven chapters review the agricultural and statistical principles and the final chapter indicates the difference that AMMI can make for agricultural research and world food supplies. This book will be of great value to agricultural scientists throughout the world, enabling them to learn more from their data and thereby make greater progress.

Cognition and Culture, Volume 103 - A Cross-Cultural Approach to Cognitive Psychology (Hardcover): J. Altarriba Cognition and Culture, Volume 103 - A Cross-Cultural Approach to Cognitive Psychology (Hardcover)
J. Altarriba
R2,076 Discovery Miles 20 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While the main source of knowledge of human cognition has come from studies of information processing in a single culture, primarily within the U.S. or within certain countries in Europe, much research has also been conducted in other parts of the world. Can the study of cognition across cultures lead us to interesting conclusions about human cognition in general? Surely any general theory of language processing, for example, must be able to explain phenomena observed across cultures and not just within a single one. This book is an attempt to look at this issue of universals in thinking and understanding by providing a compendium of cross cultural investigations in the four major areas of cognitive psychology: (1) memory and knowledge representation, (2) language processing, (3) perception, and (4) reasoning and problem solving. The differences found across cultures are also fascinating and extremely informative. A final chapter provides a summary of the major findings reported in each of these areas.

The chapters included in this work were written for those interested in cross-cultural psychology and also those with an interest in cultural anthropology. The authors are well-known in the areas of cross-cultural psychology, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and anthropology. However, the reader need not be an expert in any one of these fields to understand the conclusions and implications of the work reported here.

Truth, Possibility and Probability, Volume 166 - New Logical Foundations of Probability and Statistical Inference (Hardcover):... Truth, Possibility and Probability, Volume 166 - New Logical Foundations of Probability and Statistical Inference (Hardcover)
R. Chuaqui
R2,094 Discovery Miles 20 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Anyone involved in the philosophy of science is naturally drawn into the study of the foundations of probability. Different interpretations of probability, based on competing philosophical ideas, lead to different statistical techniques, and frequently to mutually contradictory consequences.

This unique book presents a new interpretation of probability, rooted in the traditional interpretation that was current in the 17th and 18th centuries. Mathematical models are constructed based on this interpretation, and statistical inference and decision theory are applied, including some examples in artificial intelligence, solving the main foundational problems. Nonstandard analysis is extensively developed for the construction of the models and in some of the proofs. Many nonstandard theorems are proved, some of them new, in particular, a representation theorem that asserts that any stochastic process can be approximated by a process defined over a space with equiprobable outcomes.

Relation Algebras by Games, Volume 147 (Hardcover, Anchor Books ed.): R. Hirsch, I. Hodkinson Relation Algebras by Games, Volume 147 (Hardcover, Anchor Books ed.)
R. Hirsch, I. Hodkinson
R4,407 Discovery Miles 44 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Relation algebras are algebras arising from the study of binary relations.
They form a part of the field of algebraic logic, and have applications in proof theory, modal logic, and computer science. This research text uses combinatorial games to study the fundamental notion of representations of relation algebras. Games allow an intuitive and appealing approach to the subject, and permit substantial advances to be made. The book contains many new results and proofs not published elsewhere. It should be invaluable to graduate students and researchers interested in relation algebras and games.


After an introduction describing the authors' perspective on the material, the text proper has six parts. The lengthy first part is devoted to background material, including the formal definitions of relation algebras, cylindric algebras, their basic properties, and some connections between them. Examples are given. Part 1 ends with a short survey of other work beyond the scope of the book. In part 2, games are introduced, and used to axiomatise various classes of algebras. Part 3 discusses approximations to representability, using bases, relation algebra reducts, and relativised representations. Part 4 presents some constructions of relation algebras, including Monk algebras and the 'rainbow construction', and uses them to show that various classes of representable algebras are non-finitely axiomatisable or even non-elementary. Part 5 shows that the representability problem for finite relation algebras is undecidable, and then in contrast proves some finite base property results. Part 6 contains a condensed summary of the book, and a list of problems. There are more than 400 exercises.


The book is generally self-contained on relation algebras and on games, and introductory text is scattered throughout. Some familiarity with elementary aspects of first-order logic and set theory is assumed, though many of the definitions are given. Chapter 2 introduces the necessary universal algebra and model theory, and more specific model-theoretic ideas are explained as they arise.

Genetics of Sex Determination, Volume 4 (Hardcover): R.S. Verma Genetics of Sex Determination, Volume 4 (Hardcover)
R.S. Verma
R2,920 Discovery Miles 29 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R.A. Fisher (1930) dictated that sexual dimorphisms may depend upon a single medelian factor. This could be true for some species but his suggestion could not take off the ground as gender in Drosophila is determined by the number of X chromosomes. Technical advances in molecular biology have revived the initial thinking of Fisher and dictate that TDF or SRY genes in humans or Tdy in mice are sex determining genes. The fortuitous findings of XX males and XY female, which are generally termed sex reversal phenomenon, are quite bewildering traits that have caused much amazement concerning the pairing mechanism(s) of the pseudoautosomal regions of human X and Y chromosomes at meiosis. These findings have opened new avenues to explore further the genetic basis of sex determination at the single gene level.
The aim of the fourth volume, titled Genetics of Sex Determination is to reflect on the latest advances and future investigative directions, encompassing 10 chapters. Commissioned several distinguished scientists, all pre-eminent authorities in each field to shed their thoughts concisely but epitomise their chapters with an extended bibliography. Obviously, during the past 60 years, the metoric advances are voluminous and to cover every account of genes, chromosomes, and sex in a single volume format would be a herculean task. Therefore, a few specific topics are chosen, which may be of great interest to scientists and clinicians. The seasoned scientists who love to inquire about the role of genes in sex determination should find the original work of these notable contributors very enlightening. This volume is intended for advanced students who want to keep abreast as well as for those who indulge in the search for genes of sex determination.

Leonhard Euler, Volume 5 - Life, Work and Legacy (Hardcover, 5th edition): Robert E. Bradley, Ed Sandifer Leonhard Euler, Volume 5 - Life, Work and Legacy (Hardcover, 5th edition)
Robert E. Bradley, Ed Sandifer
R5,321 Discovery Miles 53 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work.
Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler's philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Euler's innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science.
- Over 20 essays by some of the best historians of mathematics and science, including Ronald Calinger, Peter Hoffmann, Curtis Wilson, Kim Plofker, Victor Katz, Ruediger Thiele, David Richeson, Robin Wilson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Karin Reich
- New details of Euler's life in two essays, one by Ronald Calinger and one he co-authored with Elena Polyakhova
- New information on Euler's work in differential geometry, series, mechanics, and other important topics including his influence in the early 19th century

Analysis, Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition, Volume I (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette Analysis, Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition, Volume I (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


This reference book, which has found wide use as a text, provides an answer to the needs of graduate physical mathematics students and their teachers. The present edition is a thorough revision of the first, including a new chapter entitled Connections on Principle Fibre Bundles'' which includes sections on holonomy, characteristic classes, invariant curvature integrals and problems on the geometry of gauge fields, monopoles, instantons, spin structure and spin connections. Many paragraphs have been rewritten, and examples and exercises added to ease the study of several chapters. The index includes over 130 entries.

Quantum Mechanics - Non-Relativistic Theory (Paperback, 3rd edition): L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz Quantum Mechanics - Non-Relativistic Theory (Paperback, 3rd edition)
L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz
R1,604 Discovery Miles 16 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition has been completely revised to include some 20% of new material. Important recent developments such as the theory of Regge poles are now included. Many problems with solutions have been added to those already contained in the book.

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