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The importance of polymers in energy, high technology, and public health requires that scientists in all fields, lawyers, and environmentalists, not to mention members of the general public who want to to discuss and use polymers wisely, have a basic understanding of these materials. This highly readable and interesting book will give them the introduction that they need, and if they need more, points them to additional resources.

Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus is a highly practical lexicon, providing researchers, teaching staff and students in the field of Medieval History with concise, essential information. The Niermeyer Lexicon Minus has proved to be invaluable to medievalists for almost 50 years and is an indispensable working tool for academic libraries.

This anthology of texts about what have been termed Structural Films attempts to bring together some of the more important essays and articles on those films which have formed the core of film work in this field since its inception. It is a first attempt to bring together texts from Europe, Britain and the United States, on films from Europe, Britain and the United States. In the past we have been inundated with the parochial, American view of avantgarde film work, as expounded on both sides of the Atlantic. This anthology was published to coincide with the series of eighteen programmes, Structural Film Retrospective, at the National Film Theatre, London, in May 1976.

These notes have no pretense of originality. The degree of mathematical rigour is low; arguments are given rather than mathematical proofs, but mathematical references are given where complete proofs can be found. Local coordinates will be used throughout in such a way that gluing the pieces together is more or less obvious. There is a serious motivation for introducing some of the mathematics that has been successfully used recently, however unusual: the challenge still holds to know whether there are non self-dual solutions of the full Yang-Mills equations, and eventually to find them all. Other non-linear conformal invariant field equations pose the same problem.

This book was written to present a general survey of the prehistory of Denmark as it has emergedafter the past decade of research. Up to the 1960s Danish archaeology was dominated by a handful of distinguished scholars: Sophus Müller, Johannes Brøndsted, Gudmund Hatt, P.V. Glob,and C.J.Becker. Moreover the discipline was strongly influenced by conti nental modes of thought, and the chronological problems were still the main focus of research. However, in Denmark as in other European countries, the 1960s became a period of change. A wave of new theories did away with the old diffusionistic framework. Many scholars spoke of a crisis in the profession. But as elsewhere in the west, the 1960s also marked the beginning of a rich productivity in the field, and today we can speak of at least three contrasting theoretical perspectives in Danish archaeology: positivist, marxist and structuralist. Each one of themhasbeen able to open up fruitful perspectives for future research. These changes first developed afterthe publication of the last major survey of Danish archaeology to be translated for readers outside Denmark, Johannes Brøndsted’s Nordische Vorzeit from 1960–3. It therefore seemed quite clear that both students and teachers in other countries would have need of a general introduction to theperspectives recently opened in Danish archaeology. It is this need which the present book see ks to meet. To be sure, many of the conclusions are preliminary, because detailed, systematic andup-todate studies are still required in many fields. Despite this lack, I have written the present boo k in the hope of providing a synthesis of the 10,000 years of Danish prehistory up to theearlystate formation of the Viking period. This wo rk could not have been written without theinspiration of many discussions with colleag ues in Denmark and abroad, too numerous to be me ntioned here. However, I owe special thanks to Professor Olaf Olsen, State Antiquary and Director of the National Museum of Denmark, who in 1975 encouraged me to write this book; to Professor J. Desmond Clark, University of California, Berkeley, who extended his generous hospitality to me during a stay in Berkeley in 1980; to Professor John Coles, University of Cambridge, who willingly offered advice in the preparation of this English edition; and finally to the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, which supported this project financially. I also wish to thank my wife, Barbara Bluestone, who did the translation and without whose endless patience, support and linguistic help this work could not have been completed.

This remarkably comprehensive new book assembles concepts and results in relational databases theory previously scattered through journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical memoranda in one convenient source, and introduces pertinent new material not found elsewhere. The book is in- tended for a second course in databases, but is an excellent reference for researchers in the field.. The material covered includes relational algebra, functional dependencies, multivalued and join dependencies, normal forms, tableaux and the chase computation, representation theory, domain and tuple relational calculus, query modification, database semantics and null values, acyclic database schemes, template dependencies, and computed relations. The final chapter is a brief survey of query languages in existing relational systems. Each chapter contains numerous examples and exercises, along with bibliographic remarks.

This book is an introductory textbook on sexual politics and an original contribution to the reformulation of social and political theory. In a discussion of, among other issues, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminist theories, the structure of gender relations, and working class feminism, the author has produced a work of synthesis and scholarship which should be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, politics, women's studies and to anyone interested in the field of sexual politics.

Natural language parsing was one of the main motivations from which Prolog was developed Metamorphosis grammars, designed by Alain Colmerauer at GIA Marseille, was the first logic-based formalism for natural language parsing These grammars have inspired a number of other logic-based grammar formalisms and implementations which are now commonly used and some of which are still under intense research. These formalisms are very close per se to Metamorphosis grammar, some of them were motivated by the need to enhance the ease of writing grammar rules, others support deeper linguistic motivations and concepts. Natural language semantics and pragmatics are now two major fields in linguistics, philosophy as well as artificial intelligence and, obviously, computational linguistics. Surprisingly enough, up to now, this area was somewhat neglected, except by a small number of researchers among us. With the development of large and efficient Prolog interpreters and compilers and with the expansion of the theoretical aspects of Logic Programming, the study of natural language semantics and related pragmatic aspects is now becoming a very attractive topic.

It has been widely recognized that artificial intelligence computations offer large potential for distributed and parallel processing. Unfortunately, not much is known about designing parallel AI algorithms and efficient, easy-to-use parallel computer architectures for AI applications. The field of par allel computation and computers for AI is in its infancy, but some significant ideas have appeared and initial practical experience has become available The purpose ofthis book has been to collect in one volume contributions from several leading researchers and pioneers of AI that represent a sample of these ideas and experiences" This sample does not include all schools of thought nor contributions from all leading researchers, but it covers a relatively wide variety of views and topics and in this sense can be helpful in assessing the state of the art We hope that the book will serve, at least, as a pointer to more specialized literature and that it will stimulate interest in the area of parallel AI processing,. It has been a great pleasure and a privilege to cooperate with all contributors to this volume, They have my warmest thanks and gratitude. Mrs, Birgitta Knapp has assisted me in the editorial task and demonstrated a great deal of skill and patience.

Here is a state of art examination on exact & approximate algorithms for a number of important NP-hard problems in the field of integer linear programming, which the authors refer to as "knapsack.'' Includes not only the classical knapsack problems such as binary, bounded, unbounded or binary multiple, but also less familiar problems such as subset-sum & change-making. Well known problems that are not usually classified in the knapsack area, including generalized assignment & bin packing, are also covered. The text fully develops an algorithmic approach without losing mathematical rigor.

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Examines computer modeling of enzyme reactions (including enzyme kinetics), techniques popular in the fields of physical, organic, and biochemistry as well as pharmaceutical research. Includes practical computer exercises and sample computer programs which can be run on a PC. The programs serve as simple illustrations of the different concepts of computer modeling and as an introduction to more versatile computer modeling packages which can be run on mainframes. Also provides an introduction to the rapidly growing field of computer simulation and modeling of macromolecules, emphasizing structure-function correlation in proteins and the action of enzymes.

This book is an attempt at a rational reconstruction of the fundamental principles of Indian Musicology and tries to indicate how the basic aesthetic appeal of the Ragas could be best interpreted. Challenging the idea that Indian music is a closed orthodox set of so-called rigid rules and principles, it treats Indian music as rooted in man’s spiritual vision. Music unfolds this vision spontaneously through proportionate note-sequences and it is the unending pilgrimage of man, which opens richer and greater horizons where man can find his home to be a hernmitage of abiding peace and blissful joy. Throughout the book there runs a single thread, namely, the transcendental dimension of the spiritual vision in aesthetic enjoyment, as reflected in the musical creativity of India, from the ancient period. The criticism of the so-called gharana system together with a criticism of the traditional tala system and other allied issues regarding the concepts of raga and rasa will be helpful to the scholars and researches in this field. The distinctive feature of this book is the treatment of the revolutionary experiments of Rabindranath Tagore on Indian music and its musicology. This section will stimulate specialists and general readers alike. This book is a must for western readers.

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The Third Edition of the Differential Equations with Mathematica integrates new applications from a variety of fields,especially biology, physics, and engineering. The new handbook is also completely compatible with recent versions of Mathematica and is a perfect introduction for Mathematica beginners.

Algorithms for Computer Algebra is the first comprehensive textbook to be published on the topic of computational symbolic mathematics. The book first develops the foundational material from modern algebra that is required for subsequent topics. It then presents a thorough development of modern computational algorithms for such problems as multivariate polynomial arithmetic and greatest common divisor calculations, factorization of multivariate polynomials, symbolic solution of linear and polynomial systems of equations, and analytic integration of elementary functions. Numerous examples are integrated into the text as an aid to understanding the mathematical development. The algorithms developed for each topic are presented in a Pascal-like computer language. An extensive set of exercises is presented at the end of each chapter.Algorithms for Computer Algebra is suitable for use as a textbook for a course on algebraic algorithms at the third-year, fourth-year, or graduate level. Although the mathematical development uses concepts from modern algebra, the book is self-contained in the sense that a one-term undergraduate course introducing students to rings and fields is the only prerequisite assumed. The book also serves well as a supplementary textbook for a traditional modern algebra course, by presenting concrete applications to motivate the understanding of the theory of rings and fields.

This text is designed for an introductory quarter or semester course in algorithms and data structures for students in engineering and computer science. It will also serve as a reference text for programmers in C++. The book presents algorithms and data structures with heavy emphasis on C++. Every C++ program presented is a stand-alone program. Except as noted, all of the programs in the book have been compiled and executed on multiple platforms. When used in a course, the students should have access to C++ reference manuals for their particular programming environment. The instructor of the course should strive to describe to the students every line of each program. The prerequisite knowledge for this course should be a minimal understanding of digital logic. A high-level programming language is desirable but not required for more advanced students. The study of algorithms is a massive field and no single text can do justice to every intricacy or application. The philosophy in this text is to choose an appropriate subset which exercises the unique and more modern aspects of the C++ programming language while providing a stimulating introduction to realistic problems. I close with special thanks to my friend and colleague, Jeffrey H. Kulick, for his contributions to this manuscript.

Multirate signal processing has recently witnessed a great deal of activity, with a wide range of applications in signal coding and compression, in image processing, multiresolution and wavelet analysis. Multirate Systems and Filter Banks is a completely up-to-date and in-depth treatment of the fundamentals as well as recent advancements in this field. This is a self-contained text providing both theoretical developments and design tools. The book will form a basis for graduate courses in multitrate signal processing. Its encyclopedic nature also makes it a unique reference for researchers. The design methods and examples provide a valuable source of information for the practicing professional.