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This third edition reviews the epidemiology, policies, programs and outcome indicators that are used to determine improvements in nutrition and health that lead to development.

Including comprehensive coverage of health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States provides a definitive reference on this prominent issue.

This book explores the non-interventional aspects ofinterventional pulmonology, focusing on diseases of the central airways.

Bibliographic notes, updated and expanded from the first edition, are included at the end of every chapter for further reading on Monge-Ampere-type equations and their diverse applications in the areas of differential geometry, the calculus of variations, optimization problems, optimal mass transport, and geometric optics.

This volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Soci¿ Canadienne d¿Histoire et de Philosophie des Math¿tiques, held in Washington, D.C. In addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of general topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, this meeting also honored the memories of Jacqueline (Jackie) Stedall and Ivor Grattan-Guinness; celebrated the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America; and considered the importance of mathematical communities in a special session. These themes and many others are explored in these collected papers, which cover subjects such asNew evidence that the Latin translation of Euclid¿s Elements was based on the Arabic version attributed to al-¿ajj¿jWork done on the arc rampant in the seventeenth century The history of numerical methods for finding roots of nonlinear equationsAn original play featuring a dialogue between George Boole and Augustus De Morgan that explores the relationship between themKey issues in the digital preservation of mathematical material for future generationsA look at the first twenty-five years of The American Mathematical Monthly in the context of the evolving American mathematical communityThe growth of Math Circles and the unique ways they are being implemented in the United StatesWritten by leading scholars in the field, these papers will be accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics.

The second edition of this monograph describes the set-theoretic approach for the control and analysis of dynamic systems, both from a theoretical and practical standpoint.

This volume is a selection of written notes corresponding to courses taught at the CIMPA School: "New Trends in Applied Harmonic Analysis:Sparse Representations, Compressed Sensing and Multifractal Analysis".

Topics covered include demographics of cancer in the reproductive age male, fertility conditions which predispose to cancer development, the role of assisted reproduction for fertility management, as well as fertility preservation strategies for the male and female cancer patients.

This volume is dedicated to Leonid Lerer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The main part presents recent results in Lerer's research area of interest, which includes Toeplitz, Toeplitz plus Hankel, and Wiener-Hopf operators, Bezout equations, inertia type results, matrix polynomials, and related areas in operator and matrix theory.

Mit diesem Band über die am häufigsten verwendeten statistischen Methoden wenden wir uns an einen breiten Kreis von Wissenschaftern und Studenten. Biologen, Medizinern, Ingenieuren, Wirtschaftswissenschaftern und Soziologen wird gezeigt, in welcher Art und Weise Varianzanalyse und Regressionsrechnung beim Auswerten von Beobachtungen und Versuchen anzuwenden sind. Das Buch, als Statistische Methoden Il bezeichnet, schliesst an unsere Ausführungen in Elementare statistische Methoden (UTB 796) an; auf dieses 1979 veröffentlichte Buch nehmen wir jeweils als Band I Bezug. Die neue Nume­ rierung erscheint uns auch deshalb gerechtfertigt, weil für die multivariaten Methoden ein eigener Band III geplant ist; die­ ser wird bald erscheinen. Um das Buch, soweit dies sinnvoll ist, in sich abge­ schlossen zu halten, sind gewisse Teile aus Band I nochmals in knapper Weise entwickelt worden; davon betroffen sind vor allem die einfache Varianzanalyse und die einfache lineare Regression. Wir wiederholen auch die wichtigsten Tafeln. Im Kapitel 1 stellen wir einige Begriffe aus der Wahr­ scheinlichkeitsrechnung, die elementaren Tests und die Grundzüge des Schätzens von Parametern zusammen. Kapi­ tel 2 bringt die varianzanalytischen Methoden, von der einfa­ chen bis zur dreifachen Klassierung. Wir gehen dabei auch auf die Probleme bei ungleichen Besetzungszahlen ein. Die Regressionsrechnung im Kapitel 3 beginnt mit dem einfachen Fall einer einzigen unabhängigen Variablen, dann wird über zwei Regressoren zum allgemeinen Fall von p Regressoren er­ weitert. Anschliessend an diese Grundlagen betrachten wir verschiedene Formen der nichtlinearen Regression, sowie die Spezialfälle der periodischen Regression und der Regression mit Anteilen und Anzahlen.

This book presents four survey articles on different topics in mathematical analysis that are closely linked to concepts and applications in physics.

In this set of lecture notes, the author includes some of the latest research on the theory of Morrey Spaces associated with Harmonic Analysis.

This book presents a consistent development of the Kohn-Nirenberg type global quantization theory in the setting of graded nilpotent Lie groups in terms of their representations.

This book presents a systematic and comprehensive account of the theory of differentiable manifolds and provides the necessary background for the use of fundamental differential topology tools.

This first of three volumes starts with a short introduction to historical metrology as a scientific discipline and goes on with an anthology of acient and modern measurement systems of all kind, scientific measures, units of time, weights, currencies etc.

This is an exercises book at the beginning graduate level, whose aim is to illustrate some of the connections between functional analysis and the theory of functions of one variable. A key role is played by the notions of positive definite kernel and of reproducing kernel Hilbert space.

This book illustrates the imperative for late-life depression prevention, introducing a broad range of approaches to prevention and provides detailed examples of clinical applications of late-life depression prevention - all with consideration of medical and scientific, social, economic and global health perspectives.

Since publication of the initial papers in 2006, compressed sensing has captured the imagination of the international signal processing community, and the mathematical foundations are nowadays quite well understood.Parallel to the progress in mathematics, the potential applications of compressed sensing have been explored by many international groups of, in particular, engineers and applied mathematicians, achieving very promising advances in various areas such as communication theory, imaging sciences, optics, radar technology, sensor networks, or tomography.Since many applications have reached a mature state, the research center MATHEON in Berlin focusing on "Mathematics for Key Technologies", invited leading researchers on applications of compressed sensing from mathematics, computer science, and engineering to the "MATHEON Workshop 2013: Compressed Sensing and its Applications¿ in December 2013. It was the first workshop specifically focusing on the applications of compressed sensing. This book features contributions by the plenary and invited speakers of this workshop. To make this book accessible for those unfamiliar with compressed sensing, the book will not only contain chapters on various applications of compressed sensing written by plenary and invited speakers, but will also provide a general introduction into compressed sensing.The book is aimed at both graduate students and researchers in the areas of applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering as well as other applied scientists interested in the potential and applications of the novel methodology of compressed sensing. For those readers who are not already familiar with compressed sensing, an introduction to the basics of this theory will be included.

This fourteenth volume in the Poincare Seminar Series is devoted to Niels Bohr, his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory and their continuing importance today. - Serge Haroche & Jean-Michel Raimond, Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED;

A follow-up to the volume "Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800. Essays by David Speiser" (Birkhauser 2008), this volume contains the essays of David Speiser on relationships between science, history of science, history of art and philosophy.

This book is about a side of Isaac Newton's character that has not been examined - Isaac Newton as architect as demonstrated by his reconstruction of Solomon's Temple.

This book offers an original contribution to the foundations of logic and mathematics and focuses on the internal logic of mathematical theories, from arithmetic or number theory to algebraic geometry.

In this innovative title, the authors describe unique patient populations affected by stigma and prejudice and the prevalence of these issues to all healthcare providers. Each chapter covers the forms of prejudice and stigma associated with minority statuses, including religious minorities, the homeless, as well as those stigmatized by medical serious medical conditions, such HIV/AIDS, obesity, and substance misuse disorders. The chapters focus on the importance of recognizing biological differences and similarities within such groups and describes the challenges and best practices for optimum healthcare outcomes. The text describes innovative ways to connect in a clinical setting with people of diverse backgrounds. The text also covers future directions and areas of research and innovative clinical work being done.Written by experts in the field, Stigma and Prejudice is an excellent resource for psychiatrist, psychologists, general physicians, social workers, and all other medical professionals working with stigmatized populations.