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It is the task of the engineer, as of any other professional person, to do everything that is reasonably possible to analyse the difficulties with which his or her client is confronted, and on this basis to design solutions and implement these in practice. The distributed hydrological model is, correspondingly, the means for doing everything that is reasonably possible - of mobilising as much data and testing it with as much knowledge as is ec...

Accompanying the book, as with all TELOS sponsored publications, is an electronic component. In this case it is a DOS-Diskette produced by one of the coauthors, Paul Wellin. This diskette consists of Mathematica notebooks and packages which contain the codes for all examples and exercises in the book, as well as additional materials intended to extend many ideas covered in the text. It is of great value to teachers, students, and others using ...

In bringing together this book, the editors have kept two goals in mind. Firstly, the goal of educating the reader by giving an insight into the wealth of computing and mathematical techniques now being used to build decision support systems. Secondly, of aiming to stimulate the imagination by including an eclectic mix of contributions from a wide range of business areas to demonstrate that there is no field in which modern decision support te...

It has been shown how the common structure that defines a family of proofs can be expressed as a proof plan [5]. This common structure can be exploited in the search for particular proofs. A proof plan has two complementary components: a proof method and a proof tactic. By prescribing the structure of a proof at the level of primitive inferences, a tactic [11] provides the guarantee part of the proof. In contrast, a method provides a more decl...

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, re...

A fresh and inspiring new guide to gardening for those in the second flush of youth, from active retirees to those with more limited abilities

Miss Hilfsbereit ist eine von diesen Menschen, die es lieben zu helfen, aber immer mehr Schaden anrichten als Gutes zu tun. Sie meint es gut, aber sie ist einfach zu ungeschickt!

Miss Unentschieden kann sich einfach nicht entscheiden. Sie muss drei Tage nachdenken, ob sie Zucker in ihren Tee möchte!

For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. This title asks these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America.

Graham & Trotman, a member of the Kluwer Academic VOLUMES 1 &2 Publishers Group is one of Europe's leading publishers of MAJC?R COMPANIES OF EUROPE 1990/91, Volume 1, business information, and publishes company reference contaln~ us~ful information on over 4000 of the top annuals on other parts of the world as follows: comPB:nles In the European Economic Community, excluding the UK, nearly 1500 companies of which are MAJOR COMPANIES OF THE ARA...

This publication reviews the quality of the United Kingdom's legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information for tax purposes, as well as its implementation and effectiveness.

Ce rapport évalue la qualité du cadre juridique et réglementaire des juridictions en matière d'échange de renseignements en matière fiscale de Suisse.

The Brown Boveri Symposia are by now part of a firm!ly established tradition. This is the ninth event in a series which was initiated shortly after Corporate Research was created as a separate entity within our Company, the Symposia are held every other year. The themes to date have been: 1969 Flow Research on Blading 1971 Real-Time Control of Electric Power Systems 1973 High-Temperature Materials in Gas Turbines 1975 Nonemissive Electrooptic ...

From network deployment to secure monitoring, this book addresses the latest developments in healthcare sensor networks¿medical monitoring devices implanted on the body or in the surrounding infrastructure. The text discusses fundamental concepts and provides examples of clinical applications, including sensors to monitor physical activity in children and wearable gait assistants for people with Parkinson¿s. Each chapter details a separate cha...

While discussion concerning the validity of the plant approach to nutrition and disease treatment continues, the explosion of natural product use has generated concern regarding their effectiveness and possible danger. Using a rational, sequential approach, this book explores the development of efficacious medicinal herbal products.

The right turn in U. S. politics has increased conflict over both ends and means in government budgeting and financial management. Overlapping and competing views of the way the world works drive finance officials' practice. Taking a new look at public financial management that acknowledges the multiple, competing realities, Government Budgeting and Financial Management in Practice: Logics to Make Sense of Ambiguity examines transaction cost e...

Essential themes in the biochemical cycling of mercury are the relative importance of anthropogenic versus natural sources, transformation and migration processes at the local, regional and global scale, global emission inventories of different mercury sources (both point and diffuse) of both natural and anthropogenic origin. In this regard, Siberia, with its vast territory and variety of natural zones, is of special interest in the global mer...

Das Buch behandelt Themen der pharmazeutischen Biologie, die durch die Approbationsordnung für Apotheker vorgegeben sind. Neben den Inhalten der konventionellen Pharmakognosie bringt das Buch in sich geschlossene Teilabschnitte zu Antibiotika, Gentechnologie, Immunologie, Impfstoffen, Blutbestandteilen und Blutersatzmitteln. Erstmalig werden die besonderen Therapierichtungen Homöopathie, Anthroposophie und Phytotherapie ausführlich dargestellt...

In the past, coronary arteriography was the only modality available to provide high quality images of the coronary anatomy. Quantitative coronary arteriography (QCA) was developed, implemented, validated and extensively applied to obtain accurate and reproducible data about coronary morphology and the functional significance of coronary obstructions. Over the last few years extensive basic technological research supported by clinical investiga...

This volume aims at providing earth scientists Laurussia. Some fundamental discrepancies with an overview of the late Palaeozic evolu­ were recognised between the different data sets tion of North America, Europe, the Arctic and that required modifications of the hitherto ac­ North Africa in a plate tectonic framework. cepted palaeomagnetically controlled continent reconstructions. As a next step, regional palaeo­ Plate motions are reviewed th...