Simpler Models for Polymeric Liquids Far from Equilibrium -- Dumbbell Model for Dilute and Semi-Dilute Solutions -- Chain Model for Dilute Solutions -- Chain Model for Concentrated Solutions and Melts -- Chain Models for Transient and Semiflexible Structures -- Primitive Path Models -- Elongated Particle Models.Models should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. For the physics of polymeric…
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…
The Reality That Ought to Be: Problems and Critical Issues -- A First Glance -- Dualism and Interaction Between the Reality that Ought to Be and the Reality that is: Validity as a Pineal Gland -- Taking a Dive Into the Sources of Law -- The Problem of the Matrix -- The Reality That Ought to Be: A Monistic Perspective. Norms as Beliefs and as Motives of Behaviour -- The Motives of Human Behaviou…
The Context -- The Development Context: The Call for Reorientation -- The Educational Context: The Call for Reform -- The Great Debate -- The Advocates: Constructing Non-Formal Education -- Ideologues -- Empiricists -- Pragmatists -- The End of the Debate -- Some Issues Arising from the Literature -- Case Studies -- NFE Today: The Trajectory of Meanings -- Towards A New Logic Frame -- Re-Concep…
No-Option Patients -- Transcriptional Regulation of Angiogenesis -- Preclinical Models and Experience to Date -- The Coronary Microcirculation and Angiogenesis -- Local and Regional Vascular Delivery Strategies for Therapeutic Angiogenesis and Myogenesis -- Imaging Angiogenesis -- Myocardial Angiogenesis -- Gene Therapy for Angiogenesis in the Treatment of Cardiovascular and Peripheral Arterial…
Pharmacological Actions of Cannabinoids -- Cannabinoid Receptor Signaling -- Molecular Biology of Cannabinoid Receptors -- Analysis of the Endocannabinoid System by Using CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Knockout Mice -- The Biosynthesis, Fate and Pharmacological Properties of Endocannabinoids -- Modulators of Endocannabinoid Enzymic Hydrolysis and Membrane Transport -- Structural Requirements for Cann…
International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBase 2003) -- Incrementally Maintaining Materializations of Ontologies Stored in Logic Databases -- Ontology Translation on the Semantic Web -- Compound Term Composition Algebra: The Semantics -- Dynamic Pattern Mining: An Incremental Data Clustering Approach -- International …
To Intuition -- Adam Smith. New Intuitions For A New Age -- John Stuart Mill. An Anti-Intuitionist Social Reformer -- Alfred Marshall. Metaphysician and Economist -- Intuition and Analysis in the Economics of the John Maynard Keynes -- Frank Knight. Intuition, Risk and Uncertainty -- Swimming Against the Stream. Herbert Simon, Harvey Leibenstein, George Shackle, Friedrich von Hayek -- Intuition…
Korteweg de-Vries Equation -- Weakly Nonlinear Wave Packets and the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation -- Wave Interactions -- Wave-mean interaction theory -- Wave Turbulence with Applications to Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves -- Nonlinear Amplitude Equations and Soliton Excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensates.Although nonlinear waves occur in nearly all branches of physics and engi neering, the…
Background -- General Philosophy -- A Brief History of Emergency Abdominal Surgery -- Before the Operation -- The Acute Abdomen -- Rational Diagnostic Procedures -- Abdominal Imaging -- Optimizing the Patient -- Pre-operative Antibiotics -- Family, Ethics, Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues -- Before the Flight: Pre-op Checklist -- The Operation -- The Incision -- Abdominal Exploration: Fi…