New Research Challenges for the Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks -- Public Key Cryptography in Sensor Networks—Revisited -- Exploring Message Authentication in Sensor Networks -- Secure Initialization in Single-Hop Radio Networks -- Some Methods for Privacy in RFID Communication -- Ring Signature Schemes for General Ad-Hoc Access Structures -- Linking Ad Hoc Charging Schemes to AAAC Arc…
RoboCup 2004 Overview -- RoboCup 2004 Overview -- Award Winner Papers -- Map-Based Multiple Model Tracking of a Moving Object -- UCHILSIM: A Dynamically and Visually Realistic Simulator for the RoboCup Four Legged League -- Full Papers -- CommLang: Communication for Coachable Agents -- Turning Segways into Robust Human-Scale Dynamically Balanced Soccer Robots -- A Constructive Feature Detection…
Modèles micro-macro pour les solides -- Techniques d’homogénéisation -- Simulation moléculaire -- Modèles micro-macro pour les fluides -- Cinétique chimique -- Vers une unité des approches.Systèmes multi-échelles est une introduction à la problématique des systémes multi-échelles du point de vue du mathématicien appliqué. Il se compose d'une mosaique d'exemples dont le seul lie…
Part1: Introduction -- Chapter1. Researching climate change and socio-ecological systems' vulnerability in the coastal areas of Tanzania-some theoretical perspectives -- Part2: Case studies -- Chapter2. The impact of climate variability and change on communities' access to and utilization of coastal resources in Pangani District, Tanzania -- Chapter3. Vulnerability and adaptation strategies of …
Just-in-Time Approach to Learning: Arguing the Case for Cost-Effective Knowledge Dissemination -- P-Dinamet: A Web-Based Adaptive Learning System to Assist Learners and Teachers -- Intelligent Agents that Learn to Deliver Online Materials to Students Better: Agent Design, Simulation and Assumptions -- Intelligent Web-Based Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning -- Using Multiagent Intelligen…
CONSTRAINTS OF GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS: THE ATMOSPHERE -- INTERFERENCES -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES -- MODERN OPTICAL DESIGN -- STRUCTURAL MECHANICS -- SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPES -- HECTOMETRIC OPTICAL TELESCOPES ESO'S 100-M OWL TELESCOPE CONCEPT -- OPTICAL FABRICATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL TELESCOPES, TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE -- OPTICAL TESTING FOR THE NEXT GENERATI…
Activins and inhibins: Physiological roles, signaling mechanisms and regulation -- Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis: An application to growth data -- Towards Understanding the Neurobiology of Mammalian Puberty: Genetic, Genomic and Proteomic Approaches -- The non-genomic Action of Sex Steroids -- Mechanisms of Steroid Hormone Actions on Hypothalamic Nerve Cells: Molecular and Biophysical …
The Domain of New Institutional Economics -- Institutions and the Performance of Economies Over Time -- The Institutional Structure of Production -- Transaction Cost Economics -- Political Institutions and the State -- Electoral Institutions and Political Competition -- Presidential versus Parliamentary Government -- Legislative Process and the Mirroring Principle -- The Performance and Stabili…
Introduction: About the ECC and This Report -- E-Merging Media: The Future of Communication -- Changing Media -- Changing Technology -- Changing Society -- Changing Rules.After the very successful ECC-Book on "E-conomy" this new report of the European Communication Council (ECC) analyzes from various perspectives the profound societal and economical change of the media economy, initiated by dig…
Laser Basics -- Pulsed Optics -- Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Mode-Locking -- Further Methods for the Generation of Ultrashort Optical Pulses -- Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers -- How to Manipulate and Change the Characteristics of Laser Pulses -- How to Measure the Characteristics of Laser Pulses -- Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Sample Dynamics -- Coherent Effects…