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This volume contains the articles presented at the 21st
International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by
Sandia National Laboratories and was held on October 7-10, 2012 in
San Jose, CA, USA. The first IMR was held in 1992, and the
conference series has been held annually since. Each year the IMR
brings together researchers, developers, and application experts in
a variety of disciplines, from all over the world, to present and
discuss ideas on mesh generation and related topics. The technical
papers in this volume present theoretical and novel ideas and
algorithms with practical potential, as well as technical
applications in science and engineering, geometric modeling,
computer graphics, and visualization.
This volume contains the articles presented at the 21st
International Meshing Roundtable (IMR) organized, in part, by
Sandia National Laboratories and was held on October 7-10, 2012 in
San Jose, CA, USA. The first IMR was held in 1992, and the
conference series has been held annually since. Each year the IMR
brings together researchers, developers, and application experts in
a variety of disciplines, from all over the world, to present and
discuss ideas on mesh generation and related topics. The technical
papers in this volume present theoretical and novel ideas and
algorithms with practical potential, as well as technical
applications in science and engineering, geometric modeling,
computer graphics, and visualization.
"A highly readable survey of the historical prelude to the study of
the origins of life, as well as selected areas of current research,
including the search for extraterrestrial life."-NatureWhere did we
come from? Did life arise on earth or on some other planet? What
did the earliest primitive organisms look like? Untangling a
century of contentious debate, the authors explore current theories
of the source of life-from Martian meteors to hydrothermal
vents-and then present their own elegant scenario: Life arose not
in the subterranean depths, as many believe, but on Earth's
tumultuous surface, where a primitive form of natural selection
spawned the first genetic material, perhaps in the form of a
proto-virus. Knowing exactly how life began on Earth will not only
teach us more about ourselves, it will bring us closer to finding
life elsewhere.
In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher
Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of
the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such
disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their
secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad
other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of
taming them. By putting these organisms--from bubonic plague to
Ebola--at center-stage, Wills shows how we will eventually master
them.
Die in den letzten Jahren in verstrktem Mae fortgeschrittene
Globalisierung, aber auch die Folgen der Wirtschafts- und
Finanzkrise stellen die Logistik vor zunehmende Herausforderungen.
Eine optimierte Standort- und Tourenplanung gewinnt dabei nicht nur
fr groe, sondern gerade fr kleine und mittelstndische Unternehmen
an Relevanz. Der hohe finanzielle Aufwand fr mageschneiderte
Software-Lsungen lsst sich durch den Einsatz des Software-Paketes
Microsoft Office mit der ohnehin darin enthaltenen
Programmiersprache VBA minimieren. Diese wird bislang von
Unternehmen kaum genutzt, obwohl sie als sehr mchtiges Tool groes
Einsparpotenzial birgt. Der Autor Christoph Wille leitet den Leser
Schritt fr Schritt fr Schritt zum Ziel - von den Grundlagen bis hin
zu fortgeschrittenen Techniken der Standort- und Tourenplanung
sowie Programmierung in VBA. Dabei weist er auf Fallstricke hin und
zeigt Lsungen auf. In diesem Buch werden drei Algorithmen von der
mathematischen Theorie bis hin zum fertigen Programm umgesetzt. Sie
werden ausfhrlich erlutert und mittels Download-Link zur Verfgung
gestellt. Das Buch richtet sich sowohl an Anfnger, als auch an
erfahrene Programmierer.
Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question
since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist
Christopher Wills argues that we are not only continuing to evolve
but that our pace of change is accelerating. He examines the rapid,
short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the
earth's extremes (even as babies, Tibetans can draw in more oxygen
than lowlanders), and the new physiology of those who participate
in extreme sports. But the more we shape our environment, the more
it seems to shape us: Whether the future has us wiring our brains
into vast electronic databases, or popping "smart drugs" that alter
the brain's very biochemical structure, new environmental pressures
are speeding up our evolution in ways that we cannot now predict
but that will help us to survive the future.
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