Books published by Birkhauser Verlag AG

This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods.

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences.

This special issue collects selected contributions (excluding general lectures) of a Symposium on "Micro to MACRO Mathematical Modelling in Soil Mechanics", which took place at the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, from May 29th to June 1st, 2018.The Symposium provided an opportunity to enhance the scientific debate on the construction of mathematical models for the description of the physical behaviour of soils, as well as on the suggestions provided by the micro-mechanical observation of the matter. The focus was on the comparison between the appropriateness of models and the need of mathematics to obtain rigorous results, which involves know-how from applied mathematical physics, geotechnical engineering and mechanics of solids.The contributions were selected by the Editors and the other Members of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium: Gianfranco Capriz (Pisa, Roma), Claudio di Prisco (Milan), Wolfgang Ehlers (Stuttgart), James T. Jenkins (Cornell), Stefan Luding (Twente), David Muir Wood (Dundee), Kenichi Soga (Berkeley).

This book examines the attainment gap between foster youth and their peers. Specifically focusing on post-secondary access and success for foster youth, Gross points out the challenges foster youth face in the primary and secondary school context, such as being less likely to complete high school.

This book considers how the practical and public policy relevance of research might be increased, and academics and practitioners can better engage to define research agendas and deliver findings relevant to accounting and accountability in the public services.

This book aims to account for how project learning and adaptation occurs through Developmental Evaluation (DE), especially under conditions of uncertainty, complexity and change. Drawing on enactive cognitive science, the author presents a DE framework designed to augment traditional monitoring and evaluation activities.

The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation.

This book examines the current and controversial topic of the sulphur cap in maritime supply chains, a new regulation set to be enforced in 2020.

This book studies certain spaces of Riemannian metrics on both compact and non-compact manifolds. These spaces are defined by various sign-based curvature conditions, with special attention paid to positive scalar curvature and non-negative sectional curvature, though we also consider positive Ricci and non-positive sectional curvature.

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

In recent years great strides have been made toward understanding the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of BPD, which is the most common chronic lung disease affecting infants.

Different facets of interplay between harmonic analysis andapproximation theory are covered in this volume. The topics included areFourier analysis, function spaces, optimization theory, partial differentialequations, and their links to modern developments in the approximation theory.

Subsequent chapters develop the invariant trace formula in a form fit for applications, starting with Arthur's proof of the basic, non-invariant trace formula, followed by a study of the non-invariance of the terms in the basic trace formula, and, finally, an in-depth look at the development of the invariant formula.

This contributed volume considers recent advances in dynamic games and their applications, based on presentations given at the 16th Symposium of the International Society of Dynamic Games, held July 9-12, 2014, in Amsterdam.

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".

This book presents William Clifford's English translation of Bernhard Riemann's classic text together with detailed mathematical, historical and philosophical commentary.

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;

The understanding of molecular informa tion handling in nature is essential for the molecular optimization in chem istry, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology and therefore - as an ex ample - for the development of specifically acting drugs.

This volume presents self-contained survey articles on modern research areas written by experts in their fields. The articles are accessible to graduate students and researches from other fields of mathematics or physics while also being of value to experts, as they report on the state of the art in the respective fields.

Ich verstehe unter eine~ Architektonik die Kunst der Systeme ( Ksnt, Kritik der reinen Vernunft ) 0 Einführung 0.1 Dieser Bericht ist zunächst eine technische Voruntersuchung zu einer Computersimulation. Er bezieht sich jedoch auf ein geistes­ wissenschaftliches Problem und ist notwendigerweise davon geprägt. Die Grundideen zur vorliegenden Arbeit entstanden während eines Gedankenaustausches mit Prof. Gottherd Günther und mit Prof. Heinz von Feerater em Electrical Engineering Research Laboretory der University cf Illincis in Urbane, im August 1963. Es ging demals um die notwendigen funktionalen Eigenschaften eines Automaten der, dem Menschen ähnlich, selbstreflektive Prozesse vollziehen kannte. Deraus entstand im gleichen Jahr ein erster Entwurf eines Automa­ ten mit selbstreflektiven Eigenschaften am Centrc Electrcnico de Calculc der Universidad Necicnal Autonome de Maxico. Dieser Auto­ met generierte durch miteinander konkurrierende Teilautomaten ( Urteilserzeuger ) und mit verschiedenen Algorithmen, sich zum Teil widersprechende Urteile über die Zustände von Untermengen 25 eines Universums aus 2 bits. Er besaß 13 Freiheitsgrade, die durch je einen stochastischen Genaretor gesteuert wurden, um ·ver­ schiedene Subsysteme von Urteilen darüber, welche Zustände im Uni­ versum herrschen, gegeneinender auszuspielen. Diese Subsysteme er­ zeugten in ihrem Disput eine Art "inneren Dialog" des Automaten mit Selbstenzweiflung und Selbstkorrektur als notwendige Eigen­ schaften einer Selbstreflexicn.

A colloquium on operator theory was held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2004, on the occasion of the retirement of Heinz Langer, a leading expert in operator theory and indefinite inner product spaces.

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This book responds to the increasing speed with which the domain of electronic procurement has been evolving, as well to the significant advances predicted to take place in the near future.

Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit.