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Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008

By: Marc Coester,Dirk Baier

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Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008

By: Marc Coester,Dirk Baier

The German Congress on Crime Prevention (GCOCP) is an annual event that has taken place since 1995 in different German cities and targets all areas of crime prevention. Since its foundation the GCOCP has been opened to an international audience with a growing number of non-German speaking participants joining. To give the international guests their own discussion forum, the Annual International Forum (AIF) within the GCOCP was established in 2007. For non-German guests this event offers lectures in English language as well as other activities within the GCOCP that are translated simultaneously. This book reflects the input and output of the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008 which took place 2nd and 3rd of June 2008 in Leipzig (state of Saxony). Firstly lectures of the AIF are printed, followed by contributions from participants of the congress. The articles reflect worldwide views on crime prevention as well as the current status, discussion, research and projects in crime prevention from different countries. The topics range from prevention of juvenile violence, international examples and developments in crime prevention, prevention of school shootings, social capital and community participation to the results from a workshop within the congress "Probation meets Prevention".

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3936999600

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9783936999600

Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus

Markov Chain Semantics, Termination Behavior, and Denotational Semantics

By: Dirk Draheim

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Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus

Markov Chain Semantics, Termination Behavior, and Denotational Semantics

By: Dirk Draheim

This book takes a foundational approach to the semantics of probabilistic programming. It elaborates a rigorous Markov chain semantics for the probabilistic typed lambda calculus, which is the typed lambda calculus with recursion plus probabilistic choice. The book starts with a recapitulation of the basic mathematical tools needed throughout the book, in particular Markov chains, graph theory and domain theory, and also explores the topic of inductive definitions. It then defines the syntax and establishes the Markov chain semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus and, furthermore, both a graph and a tree semantics. Based on that, it investigates the termination behavior of probabilistic programs. It introduces the notions of termination degree, bounded termination and path stoppability and investigates their mutual relationships. Lastly, it defines a denotational semantics of the probabilistic lambda calculus, based on continuous functions over probability distributions as domains. The work mostly appeals to researchers in theoretical computer science focusing on probabilistic programming, randomized algorithms, or programming language theory.

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Springer

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364255198X

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9783642551987

Microscopic Foundations of Relativistic Fluid Dynamics

By: Gabriel S. Denicol,Dirk H. Rischke

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Microscopic Foundations of Relativistic Fluid Dynamics

By: Gabriel S. Denicol,Dirk H. Rischke

This book provides an introduction to relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics, with particular emphasis on its derivation from microscopic transport theory. After a phenomenological derivation of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics from the second law of thermodynamics, the intrinsic instabilities of relativistic Navier-Stokes theory are discussed. In turn, analytical solutions of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics are presented. Following, the authors discuss several theories and approaches to derive transport coefficients in dissipative fluid dynamics such as the Chapman-Enskog theory, the theory of Israel and Stewart, and a more recent derivation of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics based on kinetic theory, which constitutes the main focus of the second part of this book. This book is intended for advanced graduate students and researchers in physics and requires basic knowledge of the theory of special and general relativity. It should be of particular interest to researchers that apply relativistic fluid dynamics in cosmology, astrophysics, and high-energy nuclear physics.

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306

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Springer Nature

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3030820777

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9783030820770

Oxidative Stress in Plants

By: Dirk Inze

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Oxidative Stress in Plants

By: Dirk Inze

Plants depend on physiological mechanisms to combat adverse environmental conditions, such as pathogen attack, wounding, drought, cold, freezing, salt, UV, intense light, heavy metals and SO2. Many of these cause excess production of active oxygen species in plant cells. Plants have evolved complex defense systems against such oxidative stress. The

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CRC Press

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0203303148

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9780203303146

Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions II

By: Dirk Semkat

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Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions II

By: Dirk Semkat

Annotation Proceedings of the conference Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions, held in Dresden, Germany, from August 19-23, 2002.

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World Scientific

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9812382712

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9789812382719

Posthistoire

Has History Come to an End?

By: Lutz Niethammer,Dirk van Laak

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Posthistoire

Has History Come to an End?

By: Lutz Niethammer,Dirk van Laak

Whether its ultimate resting-place is deemed to be Fukuyama’s liberal democracy or Baudrillard’s hyperreality, history, according to a number of pundits, has reached the end of the line. In the inflated debates that have ensued, it is precisely history which has been ignored, for the conception of posthistoire is far from new. Here, Lutz Niethammer, Germany’s leading practitioner of ‘history from below’, explores in fascinating detail the forms the conception has taken in the twentieth century and assembles what amounts to an intellectual history of disillusion and resignation. In his survey of thinkers as diverse as Kojeve, Heidegger and Junger, he finds adherents to the idea of the end of history on the Right and Left. But whether they pinned all their hopes on the nation or the proletariat, in different ways they have all conflated the apparent collapse of a particular historical project with the collapse of history itself.

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Verso

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0860916979

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9780860916970

Organization and Decision

By: NIklas Luhmann,Dirk Baecker

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Organization and Decision

By: NIklas Luhmann,Dirk Baecker

Luhmann's classic text on how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they structure society.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108472079

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9781108472074

The Sense of Justice

Empathy in Law and Punishment

By: Markus Dirk Dubber

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The Sense of Justice

Empathy in Law and Punishment

By: Markus Dirk Dubber

In The Sense of Justice, distinguished legal author Markus Dirk Dubber undertakes a critical analysis of the “sense of justice”: an overused, yet curiously understudied, concept in modern legal and political discourse. Courts cite it, scholars measure it, presidential candidates prize it, eulogists praise it, criminals lack it, and commentators bemoan its loss in times of war. But what is it? Often, the sense of justice is dismissed as little more than an emotional impulse that is out of place in a criminal justice system based on abstract legal and political norms equally applied to all. Dubber argues against simple categorization of the sense of justice. Drawing on recent work in moral philosophy, political theory, and linguistics, Dubber defines the sense of justice in terms of empathy—the emotional capacity that makes law possible by giving us vicarious access to the experiences of others. From there, he explores the way it is invoked, considered, and used in the American criminal justice system. He argues that this sense is more than an irrational emotional impulse but a valuable legal tool that should be properly used and understood.

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NYU Press

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0814719732

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9780814719732

A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics

By: Dirk Nabers

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A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics

By: Dirk Nabers

This book develops a discourse theory of crisis and change in global politics. Crisis is conceptualized as structural dislocation, resting on difference and incompleteness. Change is seen as the continuous but ultimately futile effort to gain a full identity. The incompleteness and contingent character of the social represents the most important condition for democratic politics to become possible and for a theory of crisis and change to become conceivable. In this new understanding, crisis loses its everyday meaning of a periodically occurring event. Instead, crisis becomes an omnipresent feature of the social fabric. It represents the absence of ground, of social foundation, and it rests within the subject as well as within the social whole.

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436

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Springer

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1137528079

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9781137528070

Safety of historical stone arch bridges

By: Dirk Proske,Pieter van Gelder

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Safety of historical stone arch bridges

By: Dirk Proske,Pieter van Gelder

Historical stone arch bridges are still a major part of the infrastructure in many countries. Although this type of bridge has proven to be an efficient construction type, it often poses the problem of insufficient numerical models of the load bearing behavior. Therefore the book introduces methods to adapt life loads and introduces different types of numerical models of the load resistance respectively. The book continues with the introduction of specific damages and strengthening techniques. The book particularly focuses on the probabilistic safety assessment of historical arch bridges, for which often only limited material and structural data is available.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540776184

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9783540776185

Quantitation of mRNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction

Nonradioactive PCR Methods

By: Thomas Köhler,Dirk Laßner,Anne-Katrin Rost,Barbara Thamm,Barbara Pustowoit,Harald Remke

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Quantitation of mRNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction

Nonradioactive PCR Methods

By: Thomas Köhler,Dirk Laßner,Anne-Katrin Rost,Barbara Thamm,Barbara Pustowoit,Harald Remke

In this laboratory "cook-book", the authors provide a concise guide to PCR-based techniques to quantify nucleic acids in biological and clinical samples using exclusively nonradioactive detection methods, e.g. HPLC, biotin and digoxigenin based protocols. Each method presentation also includes sections on theory, reagents, standards, applicability, limitations, and trouble shooting. In addition to the protocols, the authors also provide the necessary information on: general aspects of nucleic acid quantitation; design of PCR standards; mRNA purification; cDNA synthesis; solution hybridization; DNA sequencing. This laboratory guide enables professionals as well as beginners to adopt easily quantitative PCR protocols into their own clinical or biomedical research.

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3642797121

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The Selected Correspondence of L.E.J. Brouwer

By: Dirk von Dalen

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The Selected Correspondence of L.E.J. Brouwer

By: Dirk von Dalen

L.E.J. Brouwer (1881-1966) is best known for his revolutionary ideas on topology and foundations of mathematics (intuitionism). The present collection contains a mixture of letters; university and faculty correspondence has been included, some of which shed light on the student years, and in particular on the exchange of letters with his PhD adviser, Korteweg. Acting as the natural sequel to the publication of Brouwer’s biography, this book provides instrumental reading for those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of Brouwer and his role in the twentieth century. Striking a good balance of biographical and scientific information, the latter deals with innovations in topology (Cantor-Schoenflies style and the new topology) and foundations. The topological period in his research is well represented in correspondence with Hilbert, Schoenflies, Poincaré, Blumenthal, Lebesgue, Baire, Koebe, and foundational topics are discussed in letters exchanged with Weyl, Fraenkel, Heyting, van Dantzig and others. There is also a large part of correspondence on matters related to the interbellum scientific politics. This book will appeal to both graduate students and researchers with an interest in topology, the history of mathematics, the foundations of mathematics, philosophy and general science.

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0857295373

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9780857295378

Max Weber

An Introduction to His Life and Work

By: Dirk Käsler

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Max Weber

An Introduction to His Life and Work

By: Dirk Käsler

Käsler offers a comprehensive account of Weber's views, giving attention both to the context in which Weber produced his most significant contributions to social science, and to the changes involved in his work over the course of his career. This volume also serves as an introduction to the controversies that Weber's writings have stimulated, from the time of their first appearance to the present day.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226425606

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Book's by Dirk Baier

Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008

Contributions from the 2nd Annual International Forum 2008

Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus

Semantics of the Probabilistic Typed Lambda Calculus

Microscopic Foundations of Relativistic Fluid Dynamics

Microscopic Foundations of Relativistic Fluid Dynamics

Oxidative Stress in Plants

Oxidative Stress in Plants

Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions II

Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions II

Posthistoire

Posthistoire

Organization and Decision

Organization and Decision

The Sense of Justice

The Sense of Justice

A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics

A Poststructuralist Discourse Theory of Global Politics

Safety of historical stone arch bridges

Safety of historical stone arch bridges

Quantitation of mRNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction

Quantitation of mRNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction

The Selected Correspondence of L.E.J. Brouwer

The Selected Correspondence of L.E.J. Brouwer

Max Weber

Max Weber

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