Authors:Benoit Cushman-Roisin, Miroslav Gacic, Pierre-Mari
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: present, future, past, sea, oceanography, adriatic, physical
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402002254
ISBN-13: 9781402002250

This monograph is the first book on the oceanography of the Adriatic Sea. It is a synthesis between the physical oceanography of the Adriatic Sea, its water masses, overall circulation and regional dynamics as well as its connection to the rest of the Mediterranean Sea. Topical coverage ranges from historical surveys to contemporary methods of investigation and simulation. A final chapter identifies topics in need of further inquiry. This reference book should be an aid to all scientists and policy makers with an interest in the Adriatic Sea.

Authors:Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arno
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, evolution, darwinian, neo, avatars, gene
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0306466163
ISBN-13: 9780306466168

`Why life?’ Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how’ question to scientists. Nowadays, Darwin’s successors no longer have any qualms about addressing the `why’ as well as the `how’. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having ’thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries’. Two major advances in the following decades helped biologists answer many of the questions he left unsolved. The first was the discovery of the laws of heredity, the second that of DNA. Both provi

Authors:Jean Moreau, Pierre-André Doudin, Pierre Caze,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: analyse, des, donnã©es, statistique, applications, french, pour, mathã©matiques, approches, correspondances, les, techniques, connexes, nouvelles
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1999-11-17
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3540663460
ISBN-13: 9783540663461

Cet ouvrage présente différents points de vue sur une même méthode, l’analyse des correspondances. Il montre comment cette méthode s’est développée pour traiter des données de plus en plus variées et complexes et comment elle s’est enrichie au contact d’autres courants de pensée. De plus, il présente un panorama des applications possibles. Cet ouvrage qui rassemble des contributions de différents auteurs présente un exposé à la fois progressif sur le plan didactique et suffisamment vaste pour rassembler en un seul volume des développements théoriques rÃ

Authors:Irenee Henri Dalmais, Pierre-Marie Gy, Pierre Jounel
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Keywords: liturgy, principles, introduction, prayer, church
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1987-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0814613632
ISBN-13: 9780814613634

Author: Marie-Claude Gerbet Pierre Bonnassie Pierre Guicha
Publisher: EDITORIAL CRITICA, S.A.
Keywords: medievales, espanas, las
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2000
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8474238129
ISBN-13: 9788474238129

Authors:Jean-Pierre Antoine, Romain Murenzi, Pierre Vandergh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: relatives, wavelets, dimensional
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $188.99
ISBN-10: 0521624061
ISBN-13: 9780521624060

This book introduces 2-D wavelets via 1-D continuous wavelet transforms. The authors then describe the underlying mathematics before progressing to more advanced topics such as matrix geometry of wavelet analysis and three-dimensional wavelets. Practical applications and illustrative examples are employed extensively throughout, ensuring the book’s value to engineers, physicists and mathematicians. Two-dimensional wavelets offer a number of advantages over discrete wavelet transforms, in particular, for analysis of real-time signals in such areas as medical imaging, fluid dynamics, shape

Authors:Pierre Liardet, Pierre Collet, Cyril Fonlupt, Evelyne
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: evolution, papers, selected, lecture, computer, science, revised, notes, october, conference, international, artificielle, marseilles, france, artificial
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-06-24
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 3540215239
ISBN-13: 9783540215233

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2003, held in Marseilles, France in October 2003. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical issues, algorithmic issues, applications, implementation issues, genetic programming, coevolution and agent systems, artificial life, and cellular automata.