Physics

In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry setout to publish review articles.

Progress made during the last few years in nonlinear opticsand quantum electronics has significantly increased ourunderstanding of the interactionbetween light and matter.

Carbon has always been a unique and intriguing material from a funda- mental standpoint and, at the same time, a material with many technological uses.

High temperature superconductivity is still one of the mostdiscussed topicsin physics.

It is universally recognized that the end of the current and the beginning of the next century will be characterized by a radical change in the existing trends in the economic development of all countries and a transition to new principles of economic management on the basis of a resource and energy conservation policy.

This book has been written for those whose interests bridge food processing and physicochemical aspects of radiation.

"e;Methods of the Classical Theory of Elastodynamics"e; dealsnot only with classical methods as developed in the pastdecades, but presents also very recent approaches.

For many centuries people living on volcanoes have known that the outset of seismic activity is often a forerunner of a volcanic eruption.

This volume intends to provide a comprehensive overview on the mecha- nisms of muscle contraction and non-muscle cell motility at the molecu- lar and cellular level, not only for investigators in these fields but also for general readers interested in these topics.

Atomic Spectra and Radiative Transitions covers the systematics of atomic spectra, continuous spectrum radiation, and the excitation of atoms.

Rhythms are a basic phenomenon in all physiological systems.

Advances in the physics and chemistry of low-dimensional systems have been really magnificent in the last few decades.

The yearbook series Reviews in Modern Astronomy of the Astronomische Gesell- three years ago in order to bring the scientific events schaft (AG) was established of the meetings of the society to the attention of the worldwide astronomical community.

The monograph being proposed for the English-speaking research community is concentrated on the atmospheric correction of satellite images as a part of thematic interpretation procedures while processing remote sensing data.

In the past 5 years there has been an enormous increase of evidence that the ion channels activated by mechanical force are common to a wide variety of cell types.

The 9th International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics was held in Bonn, 6-15 September 1990, with the Physikalisches Institut der Universitat Bonn as the host.

This book contains the invited lectures and contributed papers presented at the V International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions, which was held at the lustus-Liebig-Universi- tat Giessen, 10-14 September 1990.

The 1990 International Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching was held April 12-14, 1990, in Kobe, Japan, in conjunction with the 1990 International Meet- ing on Optical Computing.

The fourth Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, devoted to the topic of dynamics and patterns in complex fluids, was held on October 26 and 27, 1989, in Nishinomiya City, Japan, where ten invited speakers gave their lectures.

The last two subjects mentioned in the title "e;Wavelets, Time Frequency Methods and Phase Space"e; are so well established that they do not need any explanations.

The contribution of computer simulation studies to our understanding of the prop- erties of a wide range of condensed matter systems is now weIl established.

"e;New Trends in Nuclear Collective Dynamics"e; emphasizesresearch toward understanding collective and statisticalaspects of nuclear dynamics.

"e;Exotic Atoms in Condensed Matter"e; reviews the state of theart in this field, from meson factories to the basicinteractions of muons in condensed matter.

A variety of standard problems in theoretical nuclear-structure physics is addressed by the well-documented computer codes presented in this book.

The interaction between geometry and theoretical physics has often been very fruitful.

The up-to-date review articles in this book on modern developments in the field of sonic and ultra sonic power transducers present various aspects, applications, and possible future developments that are of interest to engineers and researchers.

Today, climate-related processes and problems are referred to as Global Change by nearly everyone including scientists, politicians, and economists; citizens worldwide are anxious about the often ob- served disorientation of our environment under the influence of man.

Our aim in this book is to present and enlarge upon those aspects of parallel computing that are needed by practitioners of computational science.

In the years since the pioneering efforts of Sir Edward Appleton, M.

It is a surprising fact that so far almost no books have been published on KAM theory.

In order to bring the scientific events of the meetings of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) to the attention of the worldwide astronomical community, an annual publication, Reviews in Modern Astronomy, was established.

Geometry and topology are strongly motivated by thevisualization of ideal objects that have certain specialcharacteristics.

In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles.

This book contains the edited versions of lectures and selected contributed papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Real-Time Integration Methods For Mechanical System Simulation, held in Snowbird, Utah, August 7-11, 1989.

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.