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Computing the Zeros of Analytic Functions

By: Peter Kravanja,Marc Van Barel

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Computing the Zeros of Analytic Functions

By: Peter Kravanja,Marc Van Barel

Computing all the zeros of an analytic function and their respective multiplicities, locating clusters of zeros and analytic fuctions, computing zeros and poles of meromorphic functions, and solving systems of analytic equations are problems in computational complex analysis that lead to a rich blend of mathematics and numerical analysis. This book treats these four problems in a unified way. It contains not only theoretical results (based on formal orthogonal polynomials or rational interpolation) but also numerical analysis and algorithmic aspects, implementation heuristics, and polished software (the package ZEAL) that is available via the CPC Program Library. Graduate studets and researchers in numerical mathematics will find this book very readable.

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Springer

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3540465189

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Embodied Cognition and Cinema

By: Peter Kravanja

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Embodied Cognition and Cinema

By: Peter Kravanja

The impact of the embodied cognition thesis on the scientific study of film The embodied cognition thesis claims that cognitive functions cannot be understood without making reference to the interactions between the brain, the body, and the environment. The meaning of abstract concepts is grounded in concrete experiences. This book is the first edited volume to explore the impact of the embodied cognition thesis on the scientific study of film. A team of scholars analyse the main aspects of film (narrative, style, music, sound, time, the viewer, emotion, perception, ethics, the frame, etc.) from an embodied perspective. By combining insights from various disciplines such as cognitive film theory, conceptual metaphor theory, and cognitive neuroscience, they show how the process of meaning-making in film is embodied and how empathy and embodied simulation play a role in understanding the way in which the viewer interacts with the film. Foreword by Mark Johnson, Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon. Contributors Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University), Juan Chattah (University of Miami), Maarten Coëgnarts (University of Antwerp), Adriano D’Aloia (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan), Michele Guerra (University of Parma), Miklós Kiss (University of Groningen), Peter Kravanja (KU Leuven), María J. Ortiz (University of Alicante), Mark S. Ward (University of Technology, Sydney), Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas)

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Leuven University Press

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9462700281

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9789462700284

Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

By: Rebeka Rudolf,Vojkan Lazić,Peter Majerič,Andrej Ivanič,Gregor Kravanja,Karlo T. Raić

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Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

By: Rebeka Rudolf,Vojkan Lazić,Peter Majerič,Andrej Ivanič,Gregor Kravanja,Karlo T. Raić

This book focuses on recent advances in dental gold alloys and gold nanoparticles (GNPs) for biomedical applications. Dental gold alloys combine several highly desirable mechanical properties, such as high strength, ductility, and elasticity, with an extremely robust chemical stability in the mouth. Moreover, astonishing progress has been made in the use of GNPs as novel gold biomaterials that provide a multifunctional platform for cellular imaging, biosensing, and targeted drug delivery in tumour immunotherapy and photothermal therapy. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the development and use of dental gold alloys, the book addresses the materials properties that are crucial for dental applications, focusing on aspects such as microstructure, chemical and mechanical stability, ageing, biocompatibility, and colour retention. The book then shifts focus to the use of GNPs in dental applications, delving into different techniques of GNP synthesis for specifically tailoring the size, shape, and stability of GNPs in biological media. In addition to these factors, it addresses how their exposure route, surface chemistry, as well as how the steric effects of their coating impact biodistribution and determine the level of GNP toxicity in the human body. Featuring topical literature reviews alongside up-to-date published experimental results, this book offers an attractive resource for practicing scientists and engineers working in the field of gold-based biomaterials.

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Springer Nature

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3030987469

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Planetary Accounting

Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity

By: Kate Meyer,Peter Newman

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Planetary Accounting

Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity

By: Kate Meyer,Peter Newman

This book presents a novel way to enable people, regardless of their scale of influence, to take responsibility for global environmental problems including climate change. It introduces a new framework called Planetary Accounting, which allows the Planetary Boundaries, non-negotiable limits for the environment, to be translated into limits for human activity. It shows how such limits can be broken down into chunks that can be managed at different levels (from individual and community, to business and sector levels, to cities and regions), and at any level of government. The book begins by summarising the science of climate change and introducing the notion of the Anthropocene – the “human age”. It highlights the importance of returning to and remaining within the Planetary Boundaries but shows that we can’t realistically do so unless we have a new approach to environmental accounting. The book then outlines how Planetary Accounting furnishes this new approach by combining sustainability science, change theory, and environmental accounting to create a scalable framework for environmental management that encourages systemic and individual change. The details of the science of and our human contribution to ten critical human pressures are then presented, and the book concludes with a guide for those seeking to apply Planetary Accounting in practice. Planetary Accounting could form the scientific underpinning of behaviour change programs, guide the development of policy and regulations, and provide both the basis for environmental laws, and the foundation of future global environmental agreements. It has been 50 years since the first views from space showed a blue planet alone in our solar system. This book is an historic opportunity to provide humanity for the first time with sufficient information to begin implementing Planetary Accounting.

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Springer Nature

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9811514437

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9789811514432

Laplacian Eigenvectors of Graphs

Perron-Frobenius and Faber-Krahn Type Theorems

By: Türker Biyikoglu,Josef Leydold,Peter F. Stadler

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Laplacian Eigenvectors of Graphs

Perron-Frobenius and Faber-Krahn Type Theorems

By: Türker Biyikoglu,Josef Leydold,Peter F. Stadler

This fascinating volume investigates the structure of eigenvectors and looks at the number of their sign graphs ("nodal domains"), Perron components, and graphs with extremal properties with respect to eigenvectors. The Rayleigh quotient and rearrangement of graphs form the main methodology. Eigenvectors of graph Laplacians may seem a surprising topic for a book, but the authors show that there are subtle differences between the properties of solutions of Schrödinger equations on manifolds on the one hand, and their discrete analogs on graphs.

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Springer

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3540735100

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Supply Chain Processes

Developing Competitive Advantage through Supply Chain Process Excellence

By: Peter W. Robertson

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Supply Chain Processes

Developing Competitive Advantage through Supply Chain Process Excellence

By: Peter W. Robertson

Supply Chain Processes introduces readers to the view that genuine supply chain competitive advantage is achieved via supply chain excellence which in turn is underpinned by supply chain process excellence. The ultimate supply chain goal is to deliver the right product, of the right quality, in the right quantity, to the right place, at the right time and for the right cost. The author identifies four core supply chain processes – strategy, design, execution and people – to which the process improvement techniques explained can be applied to ensure superior supply chain performance. Key topics are addressed, including supply chain risk, resilience, sustainability, challenges confronting modern-day supply chains and developing an elegant supply chain design. Each chapter starts with a section that explores learning opportunities and is followed by detailed chapter content. Carefully explained examples are provided, as well as end of chapter case studies, review questions and written assignments. A full suite of teaching aids is also provided for lecturers and tutors. Providing both management expertise and technical skills, which are essential to decision-makers in the supply chain, this textbook should be essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students, post-experience students studying for professional qualifications, and operating supply chain leaders and supply chain professionals. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides, tutorial exercises, written assignments and a test bank of exam questions.

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Routledge

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100039252X

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9781000392524

Construction of Global Lyapunov Functions Using Radial Basis Functions

By: Peter Giesl

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Construction of Global Lyapunov Functions Using Radial Basis Functions

By: Peter Giesl

The basin of attraction of an equilibrium of an ordinary differential equation can be determined using a Lyapunov function. A new method to construct such a Lyapunov function using radial basis functions is presented in this volume intended for researchers and advanced students from both dynamical systems and radial basis functions. Besides an introduction to both areas and a detailed description of the method, it contains error estimates and many examples.

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Springer

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3540699090

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Mathematical Foundation of Turbulent Viscous Flows

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 1-5, 2003

By: Peter Constantin,Giovanni Gallavotti,Alexandre V. Kazhikhov,Yves Meyer,Seiji Ukai

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Mathematical Foundation of Turbulent Viscous Flows

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 1-5, 2003

By: Peter Constantin,Giovanni Gallavotti,Alexandre V. Kazhikhov,Yves Meyer,Seiji Ukai

Constantin presents the Euler equations of ideal incompressible fluids and the blow-up problem for the Navier-Stokes equations of viscous fluids, describing major mathematical questions of turbulence theory. These are connected to the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg theory of singularities for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, explained in Gallavotti's lectures. Kazhikhov introduces the theory of strong approximation of weak limits via the method of averaging, applied to Navier-Stokes equations. Y. Meyer focuses on nonlinear evolution equations and related unexpected cancellation properties, either imposed on the initial condition, or satisfied by the solution itself, localized in space or in time variable. Ukai discusses the asymptotic analysis theory of fluid equations, the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya technique for the Boltzmann-Grad limit of the Newtonian equation, the multi-scale analysis, giving compressible and incompressible limits of the Boltzmann equation, and the analysis of their initial layers.

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3540324542

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The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000

By: Peter Hardy,Felice Eyston

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The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000

By: Peter Hardy,Felice Eyston

The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000 continues its tradition of providing essential information to the legions of skiing and snowboarding fans with even more expanded coverage of snowboarding than the last edition and a new complete list of ski web sites. The only independent guide to over 500 ski resorts in North America and Europe, the book is completely revised and updated, with increased coverage of resorts in North America, Italy and the southern hemisphere, as well as a new section on ski touring. In The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide, award-winning ski journalists Peter Hardy and Felice Eyston present the information An a clear, accessible manner chat will help you make all the right choices. And they give truly unbiased advice on holiday resorts -- unfettered by advertising or sponsorship, they don't pull punches in their assessments of the world's top ski destinations. Updated information includes specially commissioned full-color maps showing lift locations and number and grade of runs, ski fact boxes showing the number of lifts, lift pass prices, kilometer of trails and grading of runs, and each resort's suitability for children, beginners, intermediates and experts. The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide -- the complete source book for skiers and snowboarders alike -- is essential reading for anyone planning a vacation involving these thrilling winter sports.

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Overlook Books

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0879517395

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9780879517397

The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2006

By: Peter Hardy,Felice Hardy

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The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2006

By: Peter Hardy,Felice Hardy

Want to know the best place to go skiing or snowboarding this year? Written by leading experts Cadogans The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2006 gives readers the lowdown on over 6000 resorts in seventy-five countries

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1860113354

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And Things Happen for the First Time

Selected Poems

By: Iztok Osojnik,Peter Milčák,Sonja Kravanja

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And Things Happen for the First Time

Selected Poems

By: Iztok Osojnik,Peter Milčák,Sonja Kravanja

Poetry. Translation. Translated from the Slovenian by Sonja Kravanja as part of the Contemporary European Poetry series edited by Peter Milcak (other titles available at SPD). Iztok Osojnik has published more than sixteen collections of verse, including Mirrors in the Time of War, Hewn Stones, and Postcards for Darja. His awards include the Jenko Poetry Award and the Slovenian National Poetry Book Award, and he is the director of the International Vilenica Poetry Festival. "Bottom. Consisting of a mute face./ The triangle of eyes and language appears in many/ visions. Whispered words are doomed to/ pockets of air, the unspoken ones to// solitude"-from "Li Po I." Also features drawings by Fero Malik.

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Modry Peter Pub Limited

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0968872018

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9780968872017

Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

By: Rebeka Rudolf,Vojkan Lazić,Peter Majerič,Andrej Ivanič,Gregor Kravanja,Karlo T. Raić

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Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

By: Rebeka Rudolf,Vojkan Lazić,Peter Majerič,Andrej Ivanič,Gregor Kravanja,Karlo T. Raić

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Computing the Zeros of Analytic Functions

Computing the Zeros of Analytic Functions

Embodied Cognition and Cinema

Embodied Cognition and Cinema

Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Planetary Accounting

Planetary Accounting

Laplacian Eigenvectors of Graphs

Laplacian Eigenvectors of Graphs

Supply Chain Processes

Supply Chain Processes

Construction of Global Lyapunov Functions Using Radial Basis Functions

Construction of Global Lyapunov Functions Using Radial Basis Functions

Mathematical Foundation of Turbulent Viscous Flows

Mathematical Foundation of Turbulent Viscous Flows

The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000

The Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2000

The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2006

The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2006

And Things Happen for the First Time

And Things Happen for the First Time

Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Dental Gold Alloys and Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

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