Iceland - a Worthwhile and Popular Island to Visit -- Iceland - an Island in the North Atlantic -- Geographical Subspaces of Iceland -- Geology of Iceland -- The Economy of Iceland -- Excursion Proposals.The book thoroughly describes Iceland’s geological development and its current geological processes, taking into account both geographic and geo-ecological aspects. Furthermore, it includes s…
Kinetic theory -- Related Markov processes -- Stochastic weighted particle method -- Numerical experiments.Stochastic numerical methods play an important role in large scale computations in the applied sciences. The first goal of this book is to give a mathematical description of classical direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) procedures for rarefied gases, using the theory of Markov processes a…
A Motivating Problem -- to the Novikov and the Borel Conjecture -- Normal Bordism Groups -- The Signature -- The Signature Theorem and the Novikov Conjecture -- The Projective Class Group and the Whitehead Group -- Whitehead Torsion -- The Statement and Consequences of the s-Cobordism Theorem -- Sketch of the Proof of the s-Cobordism Theorem -- From the Novikov Conjecture to Surgery -- Surgery …
Wave Maps and Ill-posedness of their Cauchy Problem -- On the Global Behavior of Classical Solutions to Coupled Systems of Semilinear Wave Equations -- Decay and Global Existence for Nonlinear Wave Equations with Localized Dissipations in General Exterior Domains -- Global Existence in the Cauchy Problem for Nonlinear Wave Equations with Variable Speed of Propagation -- On the Nonlinear Cauchy …
Assessment of characteristic shear strength parameters of soil and its implication in geotechnical design -- Ambiguity of safety definition in geotechnical models -- The fuzziness and sensitivity of failure probabilities -- The mathematics of uncertainty: models, methods and interpretations -- Multi-parameter models: rules and computational methods for combining uncertainties -- Sensitivity ana…
Biological Aspects in Technical Sensor Systems -- The International Market for Automotive Microsystems, Regional Characteristics and Challenges -- Status of the Inertial MEMS-based Sensors in the Automotive -- The Assessment of the Socio-economic Impact of the Introduction of Intelligent Safety Systems in Road Vehicles — Findings of the EU Funded Project SEiSS -- Safety -- Special Cases of La…
Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking -- An Introduction to Epidemiology -- Concepts and Methodological Approaches in Epidemiology -- Basic Concepts -- Rates, Risks, Measures of Association and Impact -- Descriptive Studies -- Use of Disease Registers -- Cohort Studies -- Case-Control Studies -- Modern Epidemiologic Study Designs -- Intervention Trials -- Confounding and Interaction -- Epidemio…
Preface -- Part I Subspaces and Sequences in Banach Spaces: Disposition of Subspaces -- Sequences in Normed Spaces -- Isomorphism, Isometries and Embeddings -- Spaces of Universal Disposition -- Bounded Approximation Properties -- Part II On the Geometry of Müntz Sequences: Coefficient Estimates and the Müntz Theorem -- Classification and Elementary Properties of Müntz Sequences -- More on t…
Preprocessing data from genomic experiments -- Preprocessing Overview -- Preprocessing High-density Oligonucleotide Arrays -- Quality Assessment of Affymetrix GeneChip Data -- Preprocessing Two-Color Spotted Arrays -- Cell-Based Assays -- SELDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Protein Data -- Meta-data: biological annotation and visualization -- Meta-data Resources and Tools in Bioconductor -- Querying On…
e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making -- Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy -- Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation -- Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation? -- e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries -- Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland -- “Public Budget Dialogue” – An Innovative Approach to E-…