These are the proceedings of the Second R. Yorque Workshop on Resource Management which took place in Ashland, Oregon on July 23-25, 1984. The purpose of the workshop is to provide an informal atmosphere for the discussion of resource assessment and management problems. Each participant presented a one hour morning talk, afternoons were reserved for informal chatting. The workshop was successful in stimulating ideas and interaction. The papers...
This book is a timely contribution to the study of the impact of trade unionism on women in the work force and how women have exercised power within trade unions. This collection of essays contains brief yet comprehensive histories of women's trade union movements in many of the principal industrial nations of the world--Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Argentina, Italy, and the United States. The authors survey the impact of the cult ...
Chromosome abnormalities of cancer cells have been recognized for a long time, and have generally proven to be a highly specific marker ofmalignancy. The contri butions collected in this book, "Tumor Aneuploidy", cover several major aspects of present knowledge conceming the occurrence and clinical significance of chromo some abnormalities as delineated by karyotype analyses or measurements of the cellular DNA content. Certain non-random clo...
Wissensbasierte Verarbeitung von Daten, ein Teilgebiet der künst lichen Intelligenz innerhalb der Informatik, gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Anfänge wissensbasierter Systeme und künstlicher Intelligenz reichen bis in die 50er Jahre zurück und somit hat dieses Gebiet - gemessen an der Geschichte der Informatik - eine lange Tradition. Seit etwa 1980 ist jedoch eine starke Zunahme des Interesses an Fragen zu wissensbasierten Systemen festzu...
This radical revision of Professor Bullen's acclaimed and widely used text provides an introduction to modern seismological theory, with emphasis on both the physical models and the mathematical descriptions of earthquakes and their sources. The essential core of the earlier editions has been retained, particularly the tensor treatment of elasticity, seismic wave travel-time analysis and density in the Earth, although these parts of the text h...
Die Kombinatorik als eigenstiindige mathematische Disziplin ist recht jung. Anders als die Geometrie, die im Altertum fiir die Landvermessung im Niltal lebensnot wendig war, erscheinen eigenstiindige kombinatorische Untersuchungen erst viel spiiter. Euler und Bernoulli liisten mittels analytischer Methoden Abziihlprobleme (z.B. Geldwechselprobleme), die in natiirlicher Weise in der damals entstehenden Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung vorkamen. In ...
Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Verzeichnis der Quellen zum Sachenrecht -- Herausgabeschema -- Vorentwürfe Johows aus den Jahren 1874/75 für die Redaktorenkonferenz -- Beratungen zu Vorfragen -- DRITTES BUCH. Sachenrecht -- ERSTER ABSCHNITT. Besitz -- ZWEITER ABSCHNITT. Allgemeine Vorschriften über Rechte an Grundstücken -- DRITTER ABSCHNITT. Eigenthum -- ERSTER TITEL Inhalt des Eigenthums -- ZWEITER TITEL. Erwerb und Verlust...
Autobiography of the Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt, describing his battles of more than half a century with newspapermen, politicians, Fascists, and just plain citizens.
This classic work has been fundamentally revised to take account of recent developments in general topology. The first three chapters remain unchanged except for numerous minor corrections and additional exercises, but chapters IV-VII and the new chapter VIII cover the rapid changes that have occurred since 1968 when the first edition appeared.The reader will find many new topics in chapters IV-VIII, e.g. theory of Wallmann-Shanin's compactifi...
Accident, " Nicholas Mosley's brilliantly conceived and efficiently structured novel about Oxford University and environs, is a prose poem about marriage and infidelity, as well as the relationship between writing and existence, imagination and action. It is a study of the games academics play both with their students and with themselves, on campus and off, in bed or on the cricket fields or baronial halls of the landed gentry. By probing the ...
Faced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, powerfully argues that self-concern, so characteristic of our time, has become a search for psychic survival.
Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one person at a time. She endured a forced separation of 27 years from her husband, Nelson Mandela. Here, in interviews and letters, she tells the story of her life and political development.
