Physics

Constructional morphology explains features of organisms from a constructional and functional point of view.

0 e From the reviews of the German edition: "e;NMR: readable yet professional.

This volume contains the written versions of invited lectures presented at the 29th "e;Internationale Universitatswochen fiir Kernphysik"e; in Schladming, Aus- tria, in March 1990.

The Seventh Symposium was held on the campus of Stanford University with*a combination offacilities and weather which made it possible to add open-air poster sessions and coffee breaks to the programme.

This volume contains extended abstracts of the 10 plenary lectures, 27 invited symposium lectures and ap- proximately 300 contributed papers that were presented at the 25th Congress Ampere.

This book deals with the mechanism of signal transduction in vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptors.

Apart from Hotine's work on Mathematical Geodesy, several previously unpublished reports are collected in this monograph, complemented by extensive comments on these contributions and a complete bibliography of Hotine by the editor.

This entry describes the experimental work conducted in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College in connection with Test Problems 1 and 2 of the "e;Workshop on Hypersonic Flows for Reentry Problems, Part I"e;.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in Medicine"e; held in Evian, France, October 14- 26, 1990.

The book collects the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Speech Recognition and Understanding: Recent Advances, Trends and Applications"e;, held in Cetraro, Italy, during the first two weeks of July 1990.

The contents of this volume derive loosely from an EMBO worksh9P held at EMBL (Heidelberg) towards the end of 1989.

This research monograph presents a systematic treatment of the theory of the propagation of transient electromagnetic fields (such as optical pulses) through dielectric media which exhibit both dispersion a.

In 1931 Vrey, Brickwedde, and Murphy discovered the hydrogen isotope deuterium.

Synergetic Economics presents a new advance in analytical economics.

1989 was by any standards an extraordinary year: the year in which the Cold War ended.

In recent years substantial progress has been made in the detection of surface phonons owing to considerable improvements in inelastic rare gas scattering tech- niques and electron energy loss spectroscopy.

In the 1950s the direct observation of dislocations became possible, stimulat- ing the interest of many research workers in the dynamics of dislocations.

This volume contains review articles written by the invited speakers at the ninth International Summer Institute in Surface Science (ISISS 1989), held at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in August of 1989.

Chemistry is the science of substances (today we would say molecules) and their transformations.

This Atlas of data on the Continental Crust is the product of more than five years of field work, processing and interpretation assembled by the DEKORP-research group (DEKORP = Deutsches Kontinentales Reflexionsseismisches Programm).

Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure gives a systematic and rigorous presentation of the mathematical framework and principles underlying the description of magnetically confined fusion plasmas.

Earth's Rotation from Eons to Days reviews long-term changes, methods of measurement, and the major influences on rotation parameters.

Terrestrial Heat Flow and the Lithosphere Structure summarizes current problems of analyzing related data.

The subject "e;optical signal processing"e; can and should include all aspects of optics and signal processing.

In recent years the Standard Model of electroweak interactions has successfully passed a number of crucial tests, most notably in neutral current reactions and through the observation of W- and Z-bosons in proton-antiproton collisions.

The short Heroic Age of physics that started in 1925 was one of the rare occasions when a deep consideration of the question: What does physics really say?

A lively demonstration of the great vitality and the multidisciplinary character of cluster research and of the usefulness of synthesizing its various aspects was given at this symposium.

In this second edition every chapter of the first edition of Pattern Analysis has been updated and expanded.

ill the past three decades there has been enonnous progress in identifying the es- sential role that "e;nonlinearity"e; plays in physical systems.

My first encounter with the theory of harmony was during my last year at school (1975).

With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages.

Diese Auswahl aus dem reichhaltigen Werk Walther Gerlachs erscheint aus Anlaß seines 100.

As this excellent book demonstrates, the study of comets has now reached the fas- cinating stage where we understand comets in general simple tenns while, at the same time, we are uncertain about practically all the details of cometary nature, structure, processes, and origin.

TIlis volume contains the contributions to the Euromech Colloquium No.

The structural and chemical limitations to respiratory gas exchange existing between the ambient medium and the cell are comprehensively treated.

Physics of the Inner Heliosphere gives for the first time a comprehensive and complete summary of our knowledge of the inner solar system.

Physics of the Inner Heliosphere gives for the first time a comprehensive and complete summary of our knowledge of the inner solar system.

Since 1972 the Schools on Nonlinear Physics in Gorky have been a meeting place for Soviet Scientists working in this field.

This volume contains the Proceedings of a meeting held at Montpellier from November 27th to December 1st 1989 and entitled "e;Inverse Problems Multicen- tennials Meeting"e;.

WAVE TURBULENCE is a state of a system of many simultaneously excited and interacting waves characterized by an energy distribution which is not in any sense close to thermodynamic equilibrium.

Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a state of matter predicted by the theory of strong interactions - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).

Progress towards an understanding of the dynamics and interactions of galaxies has been spurred on more than ever by a wealth of new observations and numerical experiments.

The progress of materials science depends on the development of novel materials and the development of novel experimental techniques.

Cellular automata are fully discrete dynamical systems with dynamical variables defined at the nodes of a lattice and taking values in a finite set.

A broad overview of recent developments in computer simulation studies of condensed matter systems is provided in this book.

The field of integrated- or guided-wave optics has experienced significant and continuous growth since its inception in the late 1960s.

Lnear prediction theory and the related algorithms have matured to the point where they now form an integral part of many real-world adaptive systems.

Lasers in Dermatology presents an excellent and complete survey of the numerous applications of lasers in dermatological therapy and research, the fundamentals of laser-skin interaction, and the various laser sources and tools in use.