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Bringing together distinguished experts in the field of race relations this book addresses questions which are increasingly relevant in the current socio-political context of Great Britain. The kind of visions of multicultural Britain which are currently being canvassed and the problems which ethnic minorities continue to face are addressed, together with an examination of the new policy initiatives which are needed to tackle these problems. Race Relations in Britain falls into three parts which:
* analyse contemporary trends, articulating a vision of multicultural Britain and exploring important theoretical controversies
* identify the obstacles that stand in the way of a racism-free Britain, looking at current policy in areas such as immigration, employment, education, the criminal justice system as well as the role of the media
* offer a vision of a multi-cultural Britain, advancing new policies based on current research.

Bringing together distinguished experts in the field of race relations this book addresses questions which are increasingly relevant in the current socio-political context of Great Britain. The kind of visions of multicultural Britain which are currently being canvassed and the problems which ethnic minorities continue to face are addressed, together with an examination of the new policy initiatives which are needed to tackle these problems. "Race Relations in Britain" falls into three parts which: analyse contemporary trends, articulating a vision of multicultural Britain and exploring important theoretical controversies; identify the obstacles that stand in the way of a racism-free Britain, looking at current policy in areas such as immigration, employment, education, the criminal justice system as well as the role of the media; and offer a vision of a multi-cultural Britain, advancing new policies based on current research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2013, held in Bad Herrenalb (near Karlsruhe), Germany, in June 2013. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers address issues of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expressions, graphs, point sets, and arrays. The goal is to derive non-trivial combinatorial properties of such structures and to exploit these properties in order to either achieve superior performance for the corresponding computational problem or pinpoint conditions under which searches cannot be performed efficiently. The meeting also deals with problems in computational biology, data compression and data mining, coding, information retrieval, natural language processing, and pattern recognition.

This volume contains the papers presented at ESA 2009: The 17th Annual - ropean Symposium on Algorithms, September 7-9, 2009. ESA has been held annually since 1993, and seeks to cover both theoretical and engineering aspects of algorithms. The authors were asked to classify their paper under one or more categories as described in Fig. 1. Since 2001, ESA has been the core of the larger ALGO conference, which typically includes several satellite conferences. ALGO 2009 was held at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The ?ve members of the ALGO 2009 - ganizing Committee were chaired by Thore Husfeldt. The ESA submission deadline was April 12, Easter Sunday. This was clearly an error and we o?er profuse apologies for this mistake. Albeit no excuse, the hard constraints we faced were (a) ICALP noti?cation, April 6, and (b) ESA in Copenhagen, September 7. Between these two endpoints we needed to design a schedule that allowed modifying ICALP rejections for resubmission (1 week), Program Committee deliberations (7 weeks), preparing ?nal versions (4 weeks), and, to prepare, publish, and transport the proceedings (9 weeks). ESA 2009had 272submissions ofwhich 14 werewithdrawn overtime. Of the remaining 222 submissions to Track A (Design and Analysis), 56 were accepted. Of the remaining 36 submissions to Track B (Engineering and Applications), 10 were accepted. This gives an acceptance rate of slightly under 25%.

Surrounded by South Africa lies the small, independent kingdom of Lesotho, and this book explores how the Basotho people came to preserve this autonomy from powerful neighbors in the Gun War of 1880-81. One of several wars in southern Africa at the time, the Gun War was different in one, all-important respect: the whites were humiliatingly defeated, or at least decisively held at bay. Presenting oral traditions and archival sources with meticulous care, this history lays bare the narrower interests and conflicting perspectives among the Basotho chiefs and the local officials as well as the larger forces at work in the region. Compelling and absorbing, this study of the Gun War will interest historians and academics alike.

Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic techniques for modeling, understanding and solving algorithmic problems.

This book is a concise introduction addressed to students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, and optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated invariants, and comment on recent trends such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms. The authors use pictures, words and high-level pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on efficient implementations using real programming languages like C++ and Java.

The authors have extensive experience teaching these subjects to undergraduates and graduates, and they offer a clear presentation, with examples, pictures, informal explanations, exercises, and some linkage to the real world. Most chapters have the same basic structure: a motivation for the problem, comments on the most important applications, and then simple solutions presented as informally as possible and as formally as necessary. For the more advanced issues, this approach leads to a more mathematical treatment, including some theorems and proofs. Finally, each chapter concludes with a section on further findings, providing views on the state of research, generalizations and advanced solutions.

This textbook is a concise introduction to the basic toolbox of structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, key algorithms for problems on graphs, and generic techniques for modeling, understanding, and solving algorithmic problems. The authors aim for a balance between simplicity and efficiency, between theory and practice, and between classical results and the forefront of research. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, optimization, collective communication and computation, and load balancing. The authors also discuss important issues such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries, and certifying algorithms. Moving beyond the sequential algorithms and data structures of the earlier related title, this book takes into account the paradigm shift towards the parallel processing required to solve modern performance-critical applications and how this impacts on the teaching of algorithms. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Most chapters have the same basic structure: the authors discuss a problem as it occurs in a real-life situation, they illustrate the most important applications, and then they introduce simple solutions as informally as possible and as formally as necessary so the reader really understands the issues at hand. As they move to more advanced and optional issues, their approach gradually leads to a more mathematical treatment, including theorems and proofs. The book includes many examples, pictures, informal explanations, and exercises, and the implementation notes introduce clean, efficient implementations in languages such as C++ and Java.

Algorithm Engineering is a methodology for algorithmic research that combines theory with implementation and experimentation in order to obtain better algorithms with high practical impact. Traditionally, the study of algorithms was dominated by mathematical (worst-case) analysis. In Algorithm Engineering, algorithms are also implemented and experiments conducted in a systematic way, sometimes resembling the experimentation processes known from fields such as biology, chemistry, or physics. This helps in counteracting an otherwise growing gap between theory and practice.

Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic techniques for modeling, understanding and solving algorithmic problems.

This book is a concise introduction addressed to students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, and optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated invariants, and comment on recent trends such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms. The authors use pictures, words and high-level pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on efficient implementations using real programming languages like C++ and Java.

The authors have extensive experience teaching these subjects to undergraduates and graduates, and they offer a clear presentation, with examples, pictures, informal explanations, exercises, and some linkage to the real world. Most chapters have the same basic structure: a motivation for the problem, comments on the most important applications, and then simple solutions presented as informally as possible and as formally as necessary. For the more advanced issues, this approach leads to a more mathematical treatment, including some theorems and proofs. Finally, each chapter concludes with a section on further findings, providing views on the state of research, generalizations and advanced solutions.

Begriffliches zum Vorverstandnis: Transformation oder Translation? Schnell burgern sich Begriffe ein. Wir haben uns angewoehnt, von einem rechtlichen Transformationsprozess zu sprechen, der im Wege deutsch- deutscher Wiedervereinigung stattgefunden haben soll. Erstmalig hat wohl Christian Kirchner bereits im Marz 1990 von einer Transformationsphase l gesprochen, allerdings in gesellschaftlicher, nicht in rechtlicher Hinsicht. Kirchner schreibt: Bei dieser Art der Herstellung der Einheit Deutsch- lands (-nach Artikel 23 GG - d. Verf. -) ist es Aufgabe der zustandigen Ge- setzgebungskoerperschaften in der DDR, die erforderlichen Regelungen fur die Transformationsphase zu schaffen. Eine Abstimmung zwischen der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland uber diese Regelungen erscheint sinn- voll, da diese einen massgeblichen Faktor fur die Rechtsordnung in Deutsch- land bis zur Herstellung der vollstandigen Rechtseinheit darstellen und ggf. daruber hinaus, wenn namlich das neue deutsche Recht einerseits an das in der Transformationsphase geltende Recht angepasst wird. Dies kann sowohl der Fall sein, wenn namlich das fur die DDR geschaffene Recht der Trans- formationsphase Rechtsreformen des Rechtes der Bundesrepublik voraus- nimmt, oder wenn es bereits an europaischem Recht orientiert ist, bevor die- ses in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in nationales Recht umgesetzt worden ist., ' Was daraus geworden ist, ist bekannt. Eine Transformation des Rechts fand nicht statt.

This textbook is a concise introduction to the basic toolbox of structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, key algorithms for problems on graphs, and generic techniques for modeling, understanding, and solving algorithmic problems. The authors aim for a balance between simplicity and efficiency, between theory and practice, and between classical results and the forefront of research. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, optimization, collective communication and computation, and load balancing. The authors also discuss important issues such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries, and certifying algorithms. Moving beyond the sequential algorithms and data structures of the earlier related title, this book takes into account the paradigm shift towards the parallel processing required to solve modern performance-critical applications and how this impacts on the teaching of algorithms. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Most chapters have the same basic structure: the authors discuss a problem as it occurs in a real-life situation, they illustrate the most important applications, and then they introduce simple solutions as informally as possible and as formally as necessary so the reader really understands the issues at hand. As they move to more advanced and optional issues, their approach gradually leads to a more mathematical treatment, including theorems and proofs. The book includes many examples, pictures, informal explanations, and exercises, and the implementation notes introduce clean, efficient implementations in languages such as C++ and Java.

At a time when environmental consciousness has penetrated the population, more and more people are wondering how to have a fun, environmentally responsible holiday season.This book tells the reader how to enjoy the Christmas season - and leave a small carbon footprint. Included is advice on how to: create less waste at Christmas by recycling; choose between a real tree and an artificial one; host a green Christmas dinner. As well as: suggestions for green gifts; online resources to have a sustainable holiday; and, tips about recycled greeting cards.The environmentally aware reader will be able to have a great holiday celebration while not damaging the planet and setting a great example.

What are you trying to do with your money? Few of us take the time to analyze our financial needs and goals to answer that pressing question. In "Wealth Odyssey," author Larry R. Frank Sr. uses his extensive financial background to provide a universal road map that will help you determine the wealth you need to support your chosen lifestyle. Frank discusses such topics as: The Wealth Rule The Earning-Spending-Saving Formula Using debt wisely Risk management

"Wealth Odyssey" is a practical, no-nonsense guide that will help you develop a personal definition of wealth and create an effective strategy for long-term financial success.

Algorithmen bilden das Herzstuck jeder nichttrivialen Anwendung von Computern, und die Algorithmik ist ein modernes und aktives Gebiet der Informatik. Daher sollte sich jede Informatikerin und jeder Informatiker mit den algorithmischen Grundwerkzeugen auskennen. Dies sind Strukturen zur effizienten Organisation von Daten, haufig benutzte Algorithmen und Standardtechniken fur das Modellieren, Verstehen und Losen algorithmischer Probleme. Dieses Buch ist eine straff gehaltene Einfuhrung in die Welt dieser Grundwerkzeuge, gerichtet an Studierende und im Beruf stehende Experten, die mit dem Programmieren und mit den Grundelementen der Sprache der Mathematik vertraut sind. Die einzelnen Kapitel behandeln Arrays und verkettete Listen, Hashtabellen und assoziative Arrays, Sortieren und Auswahlen, Prioritatswarteschlangen, sortierte Folgen, Darstellung von Graphen, Graphdurchlaufe, kurzeste Wege, minimale Spannbaume und Optimierung. Die Algorithmen werden auf moderne Weise prasentiert, mit explizit angegebenen Invarianten, und mit Kommentaren zu neueren Entwicklungen wie Algorithm Engineering, Speicherhierarchien, Algorithmenbibliotheken und zertifizierenden Algorithmen. Die Algorithmen werden zunachst mit Hilfe von Bildern, Text und Pseudocode erlautert; dann werden Details zu effizienten Implementierungen gegeben, auch in Bezug auf konkrete Sprachen wie C++ und Java.

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