Authors:Dietrich H. Nies, Simon Silver,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: microbiology, monographs, metals, heavy, molecular
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 3540697705
ISBN-13: 9783540697701

All forms of life depend on a variety of heavy metal ions. Nearly one-third of all gene products require a metal ion for proper folding or function. However, even metals generally regarded as non-poisonous are toxic at higher concentrations, including the essential ones. Thus, sensitive regulation of metal uptake, storage, allocation and detoxification is needed to maintain cellular homeostasis of heavy metal ions. Molecular Microbiology of Heavy Metals includes chapters on allocation of metals in cells, metal transporter, storage and metalloregulatory proteins, cellular responses to metal io

Authors:Dietrich Kremp, Manfred Schlanges, Wolf-Dietrich Kra
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: atomic, optical, plasma, physics, series, springer, statistics, nonideal, plasmas, quantum
Number of Pages: 525
Published: 2005-05-25
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 3540652841
ISBN-13: 9783540652847

The book deals with the statistical theory of strongly coupled Coulomb systems. The method of (nonequilibrium) Green’s functions is applied throughout, and, in addition, the self energy function, the polarization function and effective potentials are carefully treated. Kinetic equations are derived which are especially valid for short time scales. Quantum Statistics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas also discusses single and two particle properties in detail. Equilibrium properties (equation of state), transport quantities, reaction rates and short time behaviour of dense partially ionized pla

Author: André Nies
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: guides, logic, oxford, randomness, computability
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2009-01-29
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199230765
ISBN-13: 9780199230761

The interplay between computability and randomness has been an active area of research in recent years, reflected by ample funding in the USA, numerous workshops, and publications on the subject. The complexity and the randomness aspect of a set of natural numbers are closely related. Traditionally, computability theory is concerned with the complexity aspect. However, computability theoretic tools can also be used to introduce mathematical counterparts for the intuitive notion of randomness of a set. Recent research shows that, conversely, concepts and methods originating from randomness enri

Authors:R. Koningsveld, W. H. Stockmayer, E. Nies,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: textbook, diagrams, phase, polymer
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-05-03
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0198556349
ISBN-13: 9780198556343

Polymeric materials include plastics, gels, synthetic fibres, and rubbers. They are all-important both in industry and in daily life. Unlike liquid water, ice, or sugar solution, polymers are not homogeneous. They are said to consist of two or more phases, and their production and processing, as well as their properties and uses, depend on an understanding of the transitions that take place between these phases. Over the last two decades, phase diagrams of considerably complexity have begun to appear in the polymer literature. Phase transitions occur abundantly in polymer production and proc

Authors:Nies Huijsmans, Arnold W.M. Smeulder,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: visual, information, lecture, proceedings, computer, science, june, notes, amsterdam, systems, third, international, conference, netherlands
Number of Pages: 827
Published: 1999-06-22
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 3540660798
ISBN-13: 9783540660798

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems, VISUAL’99, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in June 1999. The 100 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on visual information systems, interactive visual query, Internet search engines, video parsing, spatial data, visual languages, features and indexes for image retrieval, object retrieval, ranking and performance, shape retrieval, retrieval systems, image compression, virtual e

Author: Mary A. Nies PhD RN FAAN FAAHBMelanie McEwen P
Publisher: Saunders
Keywords: health, populations, promoting, nursing, community
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 2001-03-23
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0721691617
ISBN-13: 9780721691619

Based on the unique "upstream thinking" approach that emphasizes health promotion efforts to address the precursors of poor health, this edition focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. Detailed case studies provide a community component for each step of the nursing process and several new chapters have been added, including the economics of health care, care of the disabled population, and care for clients in prison and parish settings. The Instructor’s Electronic Resource is completely on CD-ROM and includes

Author: C.F Dietrich
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: measurement, series, science, technology, industrial, scientific, calibration, probability, statistics, uncertainty
Number of Pages: 554
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $299.95
ISBN-10: 0750300604
ISBN-13: 9780750300605

All measurements are subject to error because no quantity can be known exactly; hence, any measurement has a probability of lying within a certain range. The more precise the measurement, the smaller the range of uncertainty. Uncertainty, Calibration and Probability is a comprehensive treatment of the statistics and methods of estimating these calibration uncertainties. The book features the general theory of uncertainty involving the combination (convolution) of non-Gaussian, student t, and Gaussian distributions; the use of rectangular distributions to represent systematic uncertainties; and