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In Krisenzeiten: Quo vadis, Architektur? Angetrieben vom Wunsch, angesichts von Krisen bessere Welten zu erschaffen, versuchen Architekt: innen, Gesellschaft, Städte und Wohnformen neu zu denken, die Architektur und ihre Materialität zu erneuern - und prägen damit eine neue Ästhetik. Denn Krisen eröffnen als "Kippmomente" neue Perspektiven: Anhand historischer wie zeitgenössischer Projekte untersucht Susanne Stacher unterschiedliche Strategien in der Architektur. Ansätze aus Wissenschaft und Philosophie (u. a. Pierre-Henri Castel, Hartmut Rosa) ermöglichen es, Vorstellungen von Fortschritt, Wachstum, Natur, Gesellschaft zu hinterfragen, die in den vorgestellten Architekturprojekten sichtbar werden. Das Buch spannt einen weiten historischen Bogen und ist ein Plädoyer, über die Rolle von Architektur und Städtebau in Zeiten ökologischer Krisen nachzudenken. Eine historische und philosophische Betrachtung von Architektur in Krisenzeiten Vom Archaismus über das Streben nach Entschleunigung, Erschaffung durch Zerstörung bis zur Wiederverzauberung der Welt Projekte/Konzepte von Hans Hollein, Ebenezer Howard, Bjarke Ingels, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Paul Otlet, Bernard Rudofsky u. a.

1 The Beginning: Family, Gymnasium, Universities.- 2 Back to Petrograd.- 3 In Germany.- 4 The Years 1926-1930.- 5 In America.- 6 Prewar Years.- 7 Years of War.- 8 Years 1945-1952.- 9 A Mosaic of Reminiscences.- Frenkel's Books.

1 Grundlagen.- 1.1 Allgemeine Grundlagen.- 1.1.1 Ziele und Aufgaben.- 1.1.2 Methoden.- 1.1.3 Geschichte und Einordnung.- 1.1.3.1 Geschichte der Bauwerksvermessung.- 1.1.3.2 Geschichte des Vermessungswesens.- 1.1.3.3 Geschichte der Architekturphotogrammetrie.- 1.1.4 Rechtliche Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen.- 1.1.4.1 Internationale Vereinbarungen und Organisationen.- 1.1.4.2 Baugesetzbuch, Denkmalpflegegesetze, Vermessungsgesetze.- 1.2 Messgrößen und Maßeinheiten.- 1.2.1 Strecken.- 1.2.2 Winkel.- 1.3 Bezugssysteme und Koordinaten.- 1.3.1 Bezugsflächen.- 1.3.2 Koordinaten.- 1.3.3 Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.1 Polarkoordinaten.- 1.3.3.2 Lokale Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.3 Regionale Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.4 Globale Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.5 Geographische Koordinaten.- 1.3.3.6 Geozentrische Koordinaten.- 1.3.4 Koordinatentransformationen.- 1.3.4.1 Translation (2D).- 1.3.4.2 Maßstabslose Transformation (2D).- 1.3.4.3 Ähnlichkeitstransformation (2D).- 1.3.4.4 Vereinfachte Ähnlichkeitstransformation mit 2 Passpunkten (2D).- 1.3.4.5 Affintransformation (2D).- 1.3.4.6 Weitere ebene Koordinatentransformationen.- 1.3.4.7 Räumliche Koordinatentransformation (3D).- 1.3.5 Festpunktfelder.- 1.3.5.1 Netz trigonometrischer Punkte zur Lagedefinition.- 1.3.5.2 Höhennetz.- 1.3.6 Vermessungsnetze für die Bauwerksvermessung.- 1.3.6.1 Netzdesign.- 1.3.6.2 Vermarkung.- 1.3.6.3 Design und Fertigung von Punktsignalisierungen.- 1.3.6.4 Auswahl natürlicher Passpunkte.- 1.3.6.5 Schnurnetz zur temporären Vermarkung.- 1.3.6.6 Punktübersichten und Einmessskizzen.- 1.4 Fehlerlehre und Statistik.- 1.4.1 Fehlerarten und ihre Wirkung.- 1.4.1.1 Zufällige Fehler.- 1.4.1.2 Systematische Fehler.- 1.4.1.3 Grobe Fehler.- 1.4.2 Fehlerfortpflanzung und Ausgleichsrechnung.- 1.4.3 Rechenschärfe und Rundung.- 1.4.4 Toleranzen im Bauwesen.- 2 Dokumentation von Gebäuden und Ensembles.- 2.1 Amtliche Dokumentation.- 2.1.1 Katasterunterlagen.- 2.1.2 Amtliche Karten.- 2.1.3 Lageplan.- 2.1.4 Geoinformationssysteme (GIS).- 2.2 Pläne.- 2.2.1 Grundriss.- 2.2.2 Schnitt.- 2.2.3 Ansicht.- 2.2.4 Detaildarstellungen.- 2.2.5 Maßstäbe und Detaillierungsgrad.- 2.2.6 Materialien und Aufbewahrung.- 2.3 3D-Beschreibungen.- 2.3.1 CAD-Modell.- 2.3.2 Animation.- 2.3.3 Virtual Reality.- 2.3.4 Augmented Reality.- 2.4 Fotografie.- 2.4.1 Analoge Fotografie.- 2.4.1.1 Fotografisches Material.- 2.4.1.2 Kameras.- 2.4.1.3 Objektive.- 2.4.1.4 Licht.- 2.4.1.5 Belichtung.- 2.4.1.6 Archivierungen von Fotomaterialien.- 2.4.2 Digitale Bilder.- 2.4.2.1 Flächensensoren.- 2.4.2.2 Zeilenkameras.- 2.4.2.3 Spezialkameras.- 2.4.3 Scannen analoger Fotovorlagen.- 2.4.4 Digitale Bildverarbeitung.- 2.5 Textliche und hybride Beschreibungen.- 2.5.1 Raumbuch.- 2.5.2 Hypertext Dokumente.- 2.5.3 Informationssystem.- 2.6 Archivierung digitaler Daten.- 2.6.1 Datenträger.- 2.6.2 Datenformate.- 2.6.2.1 Texte.- 2.6.2.2 Datenbanken.- 2.6.2.3 Vektordaten.- 2.6.2.4 Rasterdaten.- 2.6.2.5 Hypermedia.- 3 Erfassung von Messelementen.- 3.1 Messprinzipien.- 3.1.1 Vom-Großen-ins-Kleine.- 3.1.2 Überbestimmungen.- 3.1.3 Vermeidung von systematischen Fehlern.- 3.2 Geräte und Instrumente.- 3.2.1 Bauteile, Kleingeräte und Zubehör.- 3.2.1.1 Lote und Libellen.- 3.2.1.2 Fernrohr.- 3.2.1.3 Stative.- 3.2.1.4 Fluchtstab.- 3.2.1.5 Nivellierlatten und Kleingerät.- 3.2.1.6 Aufstellen eines Instruments.- 3.2.2 Winkelmessung.- 3.2.2.1 Bestimmung rechter Winkel.- 3.2.2.2 Theodolit.- 3.2.2.3 Satzmessung.- 3.2.2.4 Berechnung von Richtungswinkeln aus Koordinaten.- 3.2.3 Streckenmessung.- 3.2.3.1 Streckenmessung mit dem Messband.- 3.2.3.2 Optische Streckenmessung.- 3.2.3.3 Elektro-optische Entfernungsmessung (EDM).- 3.2.4 Höhenmessung.- 3.2.4.1 Einfache Werkzeuge.- 3.2.4.2 Nivellement.- 3.2.4.3 Rotationslaser.- 3.3 Beschaffung einer Vermessungsausrüstung.- 4 Messverfahren.- 4.1 Schrittskizze.- 4.2 Handaufmaß.- 4.3 Punktbestimmung ohne Theodolit.- 4.3.1 Bogenschlag.- 4.3.2 Einbindeverfahren.- 4.3.3 Orthogonalverfahren.- 4.3.4

Intermediate and deep earthquakes in Spain.- Spanish national strong motion network. Recording of the Huelva earthquake of 20 December, 1989.- Regional focal mechanisms for earthquakes in the Aegean area.- Rates of crustal deformation in the North Aegean trough-North Anatolian fault deduced from seismicity.- Regional stresses along the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary derived from focal mechanisms of large earthquakes.- Focal mechanisms of intraplate earthquakes in Bolivia, South America.- Partial breaking of a mature seismic gap: The 1987 earthquakes in New Britain.- Size of earthquakes in Southern Mexico from indirect methods.- Numerical simulation of the earthquake generation process.- Intermagnitude relationships and asperity statistics.- Complete synthetic seismograms for high-frequency multimode SH-waves.- Body-wave dispersion: Measurement and interpretation.

Approximate Two Layer (Inviscid/Viscous) Methods to Model Aerothermodynamic Environments.- Second-Order Effects in Hypersonic Boundary Layers.- Unstructured-Grid Algorithms for High-Speed CFD Analysis.- Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Hypersonic Viscous Flows.- Numerical Simulation of Entry Flow over Blunt Swept-Wing Planes.- Viscous Nonequilibrium Flow Calculations.- The Finite Pointset Method for Hypersonic Flows in the Rarefied Gas Regime.- Computation of Flowfields for Hypersonic Flight at High Altitudes.

Turbulence Modeling for Hypersonic Flows.- Advanced Topics in Turbulence Theory.- Different Levels of Air Dissociation Chemistry and Its Coupling with Flow Models.- Modeling of Hypersonic Reacting Flows.- Modeling of Hypersonic Non Equilibrium Flows.- Wall Catalytic Recombination and Boundary Conditions in Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows-With Applications.- Physical Aspects of Hypersonic Flow: Fluid Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena.- Permissions.

Turbulence Modeling for Hypersonic Flows.- Advanced Topics in Turbulence Theory.- Different Levels of Air Dissociation Chemistry and Its Coupling with Flow Models.- Modeling of Hypersonic Reacting Flows.- Modeling of Hypersonic Non Equilibrium Flows.- Wall Catalytic Recombination and Boundary Conditions in Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows-With Applications.- Physical Aspects of Hypersonic Flow: Fluid Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena.- Permissions.

The Cray Research MPP Fortran Programming Model.- Resource Optimisation via Structured Parallel Programming.- SYNAPS/3 - An Extension of C for Scientific Computations.- The Pyramid Programming System.- Intelligent Algorithm Decomposition for Parallelism with Alfer.- Symbolic Array Data Flow Analysis and Pattern Recognition in Numerical Codes.- A GUI for Parallel Code Generation.- Formal Techniques Based on Nets, Object Orientation and Reusability for Rapid Prototyping of Complex Systems.- Adaptor - A Transformation Tool for HPF Programs.- A Parallel Framework for Unstructured Grid Solvers.- A Study of Software Development for High Performance Computing.- Parallel Computational Frames: An Approach to Parallel Application Development based on Message Passing Systems.- A Knowledge-Based Scientific Parallel Programming Environment.- Parallel Distributed Algorithm Design Through Specification Transformation: The Asynchronous Vision System.- Steps Towards Reusability and Portability in Parallel Programming.- An Environment for Portable Distributed Memory Parallel Programming.- Reuse, Portability and Parallel Libraries.- Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems: The Cowichan Problems.- Experimentally Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems.- Experiences with Parallel Programming Tools.- The MPI Message Passing Interface Standard.- An Efficient Implementation of MPI.- Post: A New Postal Delivery Model.- Asynchronous Backtrackable Communications in the SLOOP Object-Oriented Language.- A Parallel I/O System for High-Performance Distributed Computing.- Language and Compiler Support for Parallel I/O.- Locality in Scheduling Models of Parallel Computation.- A Load Balancing Algorithm for Massively Parallel Systems.- Static Performance Prediction in PCASE: A Programming Environment for Parallel Supercomputers.- A Performance Tool for High-Level Parallel Programming Languages.- Implementation of a Scalable Trace Analysis Tool.- The Design of a Tool for Parallel Program Performance Analysis and Tuning.- The MPP Apprentice Performance Tool: Delivering the Performance of the Cray T3D.- Optimized Record-Replay Mechanism for RPC-based Parallel Programming.- Abstract Debugging of Distributed Applications.- Design of a Parallel Object-Oriented Linear Algebra Library.- A Library for Coarse Grain Macro-Pipelining in Distributed Memory Architectures.- An Improved Massively Parallel Implementation of Colored Petri-Net Specifications.- A Tool for Parallel System Configuration and Program Mapping based on Genetic Algorithms.- Emulating a Paragon XP/S on a Network of Workstations.- Evaluating VLIW-in-the-large.- Implementing a N-Mixed Memory Model on a Distributed Memory System.- Working Group Report: Reducing the Complexity of Parallel Software Development.- Working Group Report: Usability of Parallel Programming System.- Working Group Report: Skeletons/Templates.

1 Introductory Material.- 2 The Direct and Indirect B.I.E.M. for Bilateral Problems.- 3 Boundary Integral Formulations for Some Special Elastostatic B.V.Ps.- 4 On the Numerical Implementation of Boundary Element Equations.- 5 Extension to Dynamic Problems.- 6 Dynamic Interaction Problems.- 7 B.I. Formulations for the Signorini-Fichera Inequality Problem.- 8 Mathematical Study of the B.I. Formulations of the Signorini-Fichera B.V.P..- 9 Boundary Integral Formulation of the Frictional Unilateral Contact B.V.P..- 10 Boundary Integral Formulations for the Monotone Multivalued Boundary Conditions.- 11 Elastodynamic Unilateral Problems. A B.I.E. Approach.- 12 Nonconvex Unilateral Contact Problems.- 13 Miscellanea.- References.

1 Technische Regelwerke.- 1.1 Literatur.- 2 Beschreibung der PE-HD-Werkstoffe und Herstellung der Dichtungsbahnen.- 2.1 Werkstoff.- 2.2 Morphologie.- 2.3 Herstellung.- 2.4 Literatur.- 3 Prüfung der Eigenschaften von PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen.- 3.1 Übersicht.- 3.2 Prüfverfahren.- 3.2.1 Äußere Beschaffenheit, Homogenität, Geradheit und Planlage.- 3.2.2 Dicke.- 3.2.3 Rußgehalt und Rußverteilung.- 3.2.4 Schmelzindex und Dichte.- 3.2.5 Maßänderung.- 3.2.6 Permeation.- 3.2.7 Thermoanalytische Messungen und Oxidationsstabilität.- 3.2.8 Zugversuch.- 3.2.9 Wölbversuch.- 3.2.10 Relaxationsversuch.- 3.2.11 Beständigkeit gegen Chemikalien.- 3.2.12 Beständigkeit gegen thermisch-oxidativen Abbau.- 3.2.13 Spannungsrissprüfung: Zeitstand-Rohrinnendruckversuch und NCTL-Test.- 3.2.14 Witterungsbeständigkeit.- 3.2.15 Beständigkeit gegen biologische Einwirkungen.- 3.2.16 Zeitstand-Zugversuch.- 3.2.17 Reibungseigenschaften.- 3.2.18 Zeitstand-Scherversuch.- 3.3 Weitere Prüfungen.- 3.4 Literatur.- 4 Verformungsverhalten.- 4.1 Spannungsrelaxation und Kriechen.- 4.2 Phänomenologisches Werkstoffmodell.- 4.3 Verformungsverhalten im Zug- und Wölbversuch.- 4.4 Bestimmung der Verformung aus der Konturlinie.- 4.5 Literatur.- 5 Langzeitverhalten.- 5.1 Alterung.- 5.2 Oxidativer Abbau.- 5.2.1 Autoxidation unstabilisierter Polyolefine.- 5.2.2 Chemische Stabilisierung.- 5.2.3 Strukturelle Stabilisierung.- 5.3 Spannungsrissbildung.- 5.3.1 Beschreibung der Risserscheinungen und Begriffe.- 5.3.2 Prüfverfahren für Spannungsrissbeständigkeit.- 5.3.3 Exkurs in die Bruchmechanik.- 5.3.4 Modelle zur Beschreibung der Spannungsrissbildung.- 5.4 Funktionsdauer von PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen.- 5.5 Literatur.- 6 PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen mit strukturierter Oberfläche.- 6.1 Art und Herstellung von Oberflächenstrukturen.- 6.2 Prüfungen an strukturierten Dichtungsbahnen.- 6.3 Eigenschaften strukturierter Dichtungsbahnen, Gleitsicherheit von Abdichtungssystemen.- 6.4 Literatur.- 7 Stofftransport.- 7.1 Vorbemerkung.- 7.2 Stofftransport in der Kunststoffdichtungsbahn.- 7.3 Stofftransport in Böden (Auflager der Dichtungsbahn).- 7.4 Stofftransport in der Kombinationsdichtung (Dichtungsbahn und Erdstoff).- 7.5 Auswirkungen von Fehlstellen in der Dichtungsbahn.- 7.6 Literatur.- 8 Anforderungen an Schutzschichten.- 8.1 Funktion von Schutzschichten.- 8.2 Arten von Schutzschichten.- 8.2.1 Überblick.- 8.2.2 Mineralische Schutzschichten.- 8.2.3 Schutzschichten aus Geokunststoffen.- 8.3 Dimensionierung und Prüfung von Schutzschichten.- 8.3.1 Eindellungen in der Dichtungsbahn.- 8.3.2 Schutzwirksamkeitsprüfung.- 8.3.3 Prüfung zur Perforation der Dichtungsbahn.- 8.4 Literatur.- 9 Einbau der PE-HD-Dichtungsbahn.- 9.1 Einleitung: PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen im Deponiebau.- 9.2 Verlegeplanung.- 9.3 Einbau.- 9.3.1 Exkurs: Entstehung und Auswirkung von Wellen in der Dichtungsbahn.- 9.3.2 Die Riegelbauweise.- 9.4 Qualitätssicherung.- 9.4.1 Anforderungen an Verlegefachbetriebe.- 9.4.2 Anforderungen an fremdprüfende Stellen.- 9.5 Literatur.- 10 Schweißen von Kunststoffdichtungsbahnen.- 10.1 Schweißmaschinen, -geräte und Schweißnähte.- 10.2 Prüfung von Schweißnähten.- 10.3 Prozessmodell zur Bewertung der Qualität von Heizkeil-Überlappnähten.- 10.4 Literatur.- 11 Dichtungskontrollsysteme für Kunststoffdichtungsbahnen.- 11.1 Funktion und Arten von Dichtungskontrollsystemen.- 11.2 Anforderungen an Dichtungskontrollsysteme.- 11.3 Art und Häufigkeit von Fehlstellen.- 11.4 Literatur.- Anhang 1 Anforderungstabellen aus der Zulassungsrichtlinie der BAM.- Tabelle 1: Allgemeine physikalische Anforderungen.- Tabelle 2: Mechanische Anforderungen.- Tabelle 3: Anforderungen an die Beständigkeit und das Langzeitverhalten.- Tabelle 4: Zusätzliche Anforderungen an Dichtungsbahnen mit strukturierter Oberfläche.- Tabelle 5: Art und Umfang der Prüfungen an der Formmasse und am Rußbatch im Rahmen der Eigenüberwachung der Herstellung der Dichtungsbahnen.- Tabelle 6: Art und Umfang der Prüfu

Computational Number Theory.- On the Dimension and the Number of Parameters of a Unirational Variety.- On Elements of High Order in Finite Fields.- Counting the Number of Points on Affine Diagonal Curves.- Small Values of the Carmichael Function and Cryptographic Applications.- Density Estimates Related to Gauss Periods.- Distribution of the Coefficients of Primitive Polynomials over Finite Fields.- The Distribution of the Quadratic Symbol in Function Fields and a Faster Mathematical Stream Cipher.- Rational Groups of Elliptic Curves Suitable for Cryptography.- Effective Determination of the Proportion of Split Primes in Number Fields.- Algorithms for Generating, Testing and Proving Primes: A Survey.- Elliptic Curve Factorization Using a "Partially Oblivious" Function.- The Hermite-Serret Algorithm and 122 + 332.- Applications of Algebraic Curves to Constructions of Sequences.- Cryptography.- Designated 2-Verifier Proofs and their Application to Electronic Commerce.- Divide and Conquer Attacks on Certain Irregularly Clocked Stream Ciphers.- New Results on the Randomness of Visual Cryptography Schemes.- Authentication - Myths and Misconceptions.- A Survey of Bit-security and Hard Core Functions.- On the Security of Diffie-Hellman Bits.- Polynomial Rings and Efficient Public Key Authentication II.- Security of Biased Sources for Cryptographic Keys.- Achieving Optimal Fairness from Biased Coinflips.- The Dark Side of the Hidden Number Problem: Lattice Attacks on DSA.- Distribution of Modular Sums and the Security of the Server Aided Exponentiation.- A General Construction for Fail-Stop Signatures using Authentication Codes.- Robust Additive Secret Sharing Schemes over Zm.- RSA Public Key Validation.

Well-posedness of Semilinear Heat Equations with Iterated Logarithms.- Uniform Stability of Nonlinear Thermoelastic Plates with Free Boundary Conditions.- Exponential Bases in Sobolev Spaces in Control and Observation Problems.- Sampling and Interpolation of Functions with Multi-Band Spectra and Controllability Problems.- Discretization of the Controllability Grammian in View of Exact Boundary Control: the Case of Thin Plates.- Stability of Holomorphic Semigroup Systems under Nonlinear Boundary Perturbations.- Shape Control in Hyperbolic Problems.- Second Order Optimality Conditions for Some Control Problems of Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Integral State Constraints.- Intrinsic P(2, 1) Thin Shell Models and Naghdi's Models without A Priori Assumption on the Stress Tensor.- On the Approximate Controllability for some Explosive Parabolic Problems.- Fréchet-Differentiability and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for Shape Functionals.- State Constrained Optimal Control for some Quasilinear Parabolic Equations.- Controllability property for the Navier-Stokes equations.- Shape Sensitivity and Large Deformation of the Domain for Norton-Hoff Flows.- On a Distributed Control Law with an Application to the Control of Unsteady Flow around a Cylinder.- Homogenization of a Model Describing Vibration of Nonlinear Thin Plates Excited by Piezopatches.- Stabilization of the Dynamic System of Elasticity by Nonlinear Boundary Feedback.- Griffith Formula and Rice-Cherepanov's Integral for Elliptic Equations with Unilateral Conditions in Nonsmooth Domains.- A Domain Optimization Problem for a Nonlinear Thermoelastic System.- Approximate Controllability for a Hydro-Elastic Model in a Rectangular Domain.- Noncooperative Games with Elliptic Systems.- Incomplete Indefinite Decompositions as Multigrid Smoothers for KKT Systems.- Domain Optimization for the Navier-Stokes Equations by an Embedding Domain Method.- On the Approximation and Optimization of Fourth Order Elliptic Systems.- On the Existence and Approximation of Solutions for the Optimal Control of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.- Identification of Memory Kernels in Heat Conduction and Viscoelasticity.- Variational Formulation for Incompressible Euler Equation by Weak Shape Evolution.

Device Simulation and Applications.- Hydrodynamical Model for GaAs Semiconductors Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle with Application to Electronic Devices.- Modeling and Simulation of Electro-Quasistatic Fields.- Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit System Design for UMTS Terminal Receivers.- Finite-element Discretizations of Semiconductor Energy-transport Equations.- Circuit Simulation and DAE's.- An Embedding Approach for the Simulation of Electronic Circuits with Widely Seperated Time Scales.- Actual Problems of Circuit Simulation in Industry.- Periodic Steady State Computation with the Poincaré-map Method.- Periodic AC and Periodic Noise in RF Simulation for Electronic Circuit Design.- Differential Algebraic Systems with Properly Stated Leading Term and MNA Equations.- A Parallel Finite Difference Method for Multirate Partial Differential Algebraic Equations.- Feasibility Regions and their Significance to the Hierarchical Optimization of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems.- Coupling of Devices and Circuits.- Modeling and Discretization of a Thermal-Electric Test Circuit.- A Refined PDAE Network Model for a CMOS Ring Oscillator.- Parasitics Reduction for Analog Circuit Simulation.- Modeling Circuit Systems Coupled with Distributed Semiconductor Equations.- Circuits with Stochastic Sources.- Transient Noise Simulation: Modeling and Simulation of 1/ f-Noise.- Noise Analysis of Nonlinear Electrical Circuits and Devices.- On Parametric Test Design for Analog Integrated Circuits considering Error in Measurement and Stimulus.- Stochastic DAEs in Circuit Simulation.- Advanced Mathematical Tools.- An Efficient Way to Avoid the Order Reduction of Linearly Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Nonlinear IBVP's.- Solution of Linear Systems with Sparse Matrices.- The Performances of the Code TOM on the Holt Problem.

Some extremum and unilateral boundary value problems in viscous hydrodynamics.- On axisymmetric motion of the fluid with a free surface.- On the occurrence of singularities in axisymmetrical problems of hele-shaw type.- New asymptotic method for solving of mixed boundary value problems.- Some results on the thermistor problem.- New applications of energy methods to parabolic and elliptic free boundary problems.- A localized finite element method for nonlinear water wave problems.- Approximate method of investigation of normal oscillations of viscous incompressible liquid in container.- The classical Stefan problem as the limit case of the Stefan problem with a kinetic condition at the free boundary.- A mathematical model of oscillations energy dissipation of viscous liquid in a tank.- Existence of the classical solution of a two-phase multidimensional Stefan problem on any finite time interval.- Asymptotic theory of propagation of nonstationary surface and internal waves over uneven bottom.- Multiparametric problems of two-dimensional free boundary seepage.- Nonisothermal two-phase filtration in porous media.- Explicit solution of time-dependent free boundary problems.- Nonequilibrium phase transitions in frozen grounds.- System of variational inequalities arising in nonlinear diffusion with phase change.- Contact viscoelastoplastic problem for a beam.- Application of a finite-element method to two-dimensional contact problems.- Computations of a gas bubble motion in liquid.- Waves on the liquid-gas free surface in the presence of the acoustic field in gas.- Smooth bore in a two-layer fluid.- Numerical calculation of movable free and contact boundaries in problems of dynamic deformation of viscoelastic bodies.- On the canonical variables for two-dimensional vortex hydrodynamics of incompressible fluid.- About the method with regularization for solving the contact problem in elasticity.- Space evolution of tornado-like vortex core.- Optimal shape design for parabolic system and two-phase Stefan problem.- Incompressible fluid flows with free boundary and the methods for their research.- On the Stefan problems for the system of equations arising in the modelling of liquid-phase epitaxy processes.- Stefan problem with surface tension as a limit of the phase field model.- The modelization of transformation phase via the resolution of an inclusion problem with moving boundary.- To the problem of constructing weak solutions in dynamic elastoplasticity.- The justification of the conjugate conditions for the Euler's and Darcy's equations.- On an evolution problem of thermo-capillary convection.- Front tracking methods for one-dimensional moving boundary problems.- On Cauchy problem for long wave equations.- On fixed point (trial) methods for free boundary problems.- Nonlinear theory of dynamics of a viscous fluid with a free boundary in the process of a solid body wetting.

Cholinergic and noncholinergic parasympathetic control of airway smooth muscle.- Role of non-neuronal and neuronal acetylcholine in the airways.- Identification, localization and function of muscarinic receptor subtypes in the airways.- Functional roles of postjunctional muscarinic M2 receptors in airway smooth muscle.- Dysfunction of prejunctional muscarinic M2 receptors: role of environmental factors.- Muscarinic receptor-?-adrenoceptor cross-talk in airway smooth muscle.- Gene regulation of muscarinic receptor subtypes.- Muscarinic control of airway mucus secretion.- The role of anticholinergics in asthma and COPD.- Novel perspectives in anticholinergic therapy.

Factors affecting blood levels of vitamin A.- Enzymology and biogenesis of retinoic acid.- Requirements and safety of vitamin A in humans.- Current views on carotenoids: biology, epidemiology and trials.- The role of vitamin A in visual transduction.- The role and evolutionary development of retinoic-acid signalling in the eye.- Vitamin A, retinoids and immune responses.- Vitamin A and infectious diseases.- Retinoid metabolism in the embryo.- Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic scaling in retinoid developmental toxicity.- Retinoic acid receptors in normal and neoplastic haematopoietic cells.- Modulation of nuclear vitamin D signalling by retinoids.- Pharmacology and molecular mechanisms of retinoid action in skin.- Synthetic retinoids and their usefulness in biology and medicine.- Proposed role of gap junctional communication in retinoid-induced suppression of proliferation and inhibition of neoplastic transformation.- Effects of all-trans retinoic acid and 13-cis retinoic acid on breast cancer cell lines.- Retinoids and interferons: combination studies in human cancer.- Treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia with all-trans retinoic acid.- Bioactivities of N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) retinamide.- Therapeutic uses of retinoids in skin diseases.- Retinoid treatment of photoaged skin.- Therapeutic uses of retinoic acid receptor antagonists and inverse agonists.

This monograph provides a rigorous, encyclopedic treatment of the fundamental topics in real analysis, functional analysis, and measure theory. The result of many years of the author's careful and extensive work, this text synthesizes and builds upon the existing literature in an effort to develop and solidify the theory of measure-theoretic calculus in abstract spaces. Standard results and proofs are illustrated in general abstract settings under rigorous treatment, and numerous ancillary topics are also covered in detail, such as functional analytic treatment of optimization, probability theory, and the theory of Sobolev spaces. Applied mathematicians and researchers working in control theory, operations research, economics, optimization theory, and many other areas will find this text to be a comprehensive and invaluable resource. It can also serve as an analysis textbook for graduate-level students.

A good side to non-reflexive transformations.- On skew Toeplitz operators, II.- Regularity questions for free convolution.- Operators of Putinar type.- Flat extensions of positive moment matrices: Relations in analytic or conjugate terms.- Geometric invariants for resolutions of Hilbert modules.- Some multplicities for contractions with Hilbert-Schmidt defect.- Strong limits of similarities.- LP multipliers and nested Sigma-algebras.- On isometric intertwining liftings.- The predual of a type I Von Neumann algebra.- The canonical complex structure of flag manifolds in a C* -algebra.- An algebraic characterization of boundary representations.- Joint spectrum and nonisometric functional calculus.

0 Introduction.- 1 Auxiliary Results.- 2 Maximization of Functionals in H? [a, b] and Perfect ?-Splines.- 3 Fredholm Kernels.- 4 Review of Classical Chebyshev Polynomial Splines.- 5 Additive Kolmogorov-Landau Inequalities.- 6 Proof of the Main Result.- 7 Properties of Chebyshev ?-Splines.- 8 Chebyshev ?-Splines on the Half-line ?+.- 9 Maximization of Integral Functional in H?[a1, a2], -? ? a1

1. Prevention and Early Detection of Lung Cancer - Clinical Aspects.- 2. Smoking Prevention and Cessation.- 3. Clinical Pharmacology of Vitamin A and Retinoids.- 4. Early Lung Cancer Detection.- 5. Molecular Abnormalities in the Sequential Development of Lung Carcinoma.- 6. Application of In Situ PCR and In Situ Hybridization to the Characterization of Lung Cancers.- 7. Tumor Stroma Formation in Lung Cancer.- 8. Tumor Angiogenesis: Basis for New Prognostic Factors and New Anticancer Therapies.- 9. Cell Cycle Regulators and Mechanisms of Growth Control Evasion in Lung Cancer.- 10. Molecular Genetics of Lung Cancer.- 11. Neuropeptides, Signal Transduction and Small Cell Lung Cancer.- 12. In Vitro Analysis of Bombesin/Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor (bb2) Ligand Binding and G-Protein Coupling.- 13. DNA Methylation Changes in Lung Cancer.- 14. K-ras Mutations as Molecular Markers of Lung Cancer.- 15. Sheep Lung Adenomatosis: A Model of Virally Induced Lung Cancer.- 16. Retinoic Acid Receptor ß An Exploration of its Role in Lung Cancer Suppression and its Potential in Cancer Prevention.- 17. Cytochrome P450 Polymorphisms: Risk Factors for Lung Cancer?.- 18. Glutathione S-Transferases and Lung Cancer Risk.- 19. The p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene in Lung Cancer: From Molecular to Serological Diagnosis.- 20. Endoscopic Localization of Preneoplastic Lung Lesions.- 21. Antigen Retrieval Improves hnRNP A2/B1 Immunohisto-chemical Localization in Premalignant Lesions of the Lung.- 22. Molecular Pathological Mechanisms in NSCLC and the Assessment of Individuals with a High Risk of Developing Lung Cancer.- 23. Chemoprevention of Lung Cancer.- 24. Regional Delivery of Retinoids: A New Approach to Early Lung Cancer Intervention.- 25. Natural Inhibitors of Carcinogenesis.- 26. Gene Delivery to Airways.- 27. Lung Cancer Prevention: The Point of View of a Public Health Epidemiologist.- 28. Biomarkers as Intermediate Endpoints in Chemoprevention Trials: Biological Basis of Lung Cancer Prevention.- 29. Biological Tools for Mass Screening.- 30. Optimization of the Use of Biological Samples for the Prospective Evaluation of Preneoplastic Lesions.

On the Convexification of Optimal Control Problems of Flight Dynamics.- Restricted Optimal Transportation Flows.- Relaxation Gaps in Optimal Control Processes with State Constraints.- Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Hemivariational Inequalities in Nonlinear Elasticity.- A Discretization for Control Problems with optimality test.- Smooth and Nonsmooth Optimal Lipschitz Control - a Model Problem.- Suboptimality Theorems in Optimal Control.- A Second Order Sufficient Condition for Optimality in Nonlinear Control - the Conjugate Point Approach.- Extremal Problems for Elliptic Systems.- Existence Results for Some Nonconvex Optimization Problems Governed by Nonlinear Processes.- Multiobjective Optimal Control Problems.- Existence Principles and the Theory of Extremal Problems.- Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations and Optimal Control.- Output Target Control and Uncertain Infinite-Dimensional Systems.- Sensitivity Analysis of Stiff and Non-stiff Initial-value Problems.- Algorithm of Real-Time Minimization of Control Norm for Incompletely Determined Linear Control Systems.- Set-valued Calculus and Dynamic Programming in Problems of Feedback Control.- Strong Observability of Time-dependent Linear Systems.- Sensitivity Analysis and Real-Time Control of Nonlinear Optimal Control Systems via Nonlinear Programming Methods.- Accelerating Multiple Shooting for State-constrained Trajectory Optimization Problems.- SQP Methods and their Application to Numerical Optimal Control.- Predictor-Corrector Continuation Method for Optimal Control Problems.- Time Invariant Global Stabilization of a Mobile Robot.- Competitive Running on a Hilly Track.- Convex Domains of Given Diameter with Greatest Volume.- Isoperimetric and Isodiametric Area-minimal Plane Convex Figures.- Minimizing the Noise of an Aircraft during Landing Approach.- Real-Time Computation of Strategies of Differential Games with Applications to Collision Avoidance.- The Use of Screening for the Control of an Endemic Disease.- Optimal Control of Sloshing Liquids.- Free Surface Waves in a Wave Tank.- Efficient Convexification of Flight Path Optimization Problems.- Determining the Controllability Region for the Re-entry of an Apollo-type Spacecraft.

Essay on Bernd Silbermann.- Publications of Bernd Silbermann.- Toeplitz Corona Problem for Algebras of Almost Periodic Functions.- Sums of Idempotents in the Banach Algebra Generated by the Compact Operators and the Identity.- Asymptotic Formulas for the Determinants of Symmetric Toeplitz plus Hankel Matrices.- On the Determinant Formulas by Borodin, Okounkov, Baik, Deift and Rains.- On the Distance of a Large Toeplitz Band Matrix to the Nearest Singular Matrix.- Singular Integral Equations on Piecewise Smooth Curves in Spaces of Smooth Functions.- Spline Approximation Methods for the Biharmonic Dirichlet Problem on Non-smooth Domains.- On Rank Invariance of Schwarz-Pick-Potapov Block Matrices of Matrix-valued Carathéodory Functions.- Finite Section Method for Linear Ordinary Differential Equations Revisited.- Fast Algorithms for Skewsymmetric Toeplitz Matrices.- On Collocation Methods for Nonlinear Cauchy Singular Integral Equations.- Local method for nonlocal operators on Banach spaces.- Numerical Solution of Mellin Type Equations via Wiener-Hopf Equations.- A 1-parameter Scale of Closed Ideals Formed by Strictly Singular Operators.- Local Theory of the Fredholmness of Band-dominated Operators with Slowly Oscillating Coefficients.- More Inequalities and Asymptotics for Matrix Valued Linear Positive Operators: the Noncommutative Case.- Toeplitz Determinants, Random Matrices and Random Permutations.

Introduction, Global Perspectives and History of Immunosuppression.- Immunosuppressive Drugs.- Cyclosporine: Role of Pharmacokinetics.- Tacrolimus.- The Potential Role of Immunosuppressive Macrocyclic Lactones.- Inosine Monophosphate Dehydrogenase Inhibition: Mycophenolate Mofetil.- Biologicals.- Therapeutic Anti-T-cell Monoclonal Antibodies.- Targeting the IL-2 Receptor with Antibodies or Chimeric Toxins.- New Avenues in Immunosuppression.- Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Allograft Rejection.- Tolerance Induction.- Gene Therapy Approaches to Immunosuppression.- Perspectives.- A rigorous approach to the diagnosis of synergy among combination therapies of immunosuppressive agents.- Lessons for transplantation of cyclosporine experience in the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

1 - Algebraic Preamble.- Groups, Rings and Fields.- Permutation Groups.- Problems 1.- 2 - Vector Spaces and Linear Maps.- Vector Spaces and Algebras.- Bases and Dimension.- Linear Maps.- Direct Sums.- Addendum - Modules.- Problems 2.- 3 - Matrices, Determinants and Linear Equations.- Matrices.- Determinants.- Systems of Linear Equations.- Problems 3.- 4 - Cayley-Hamilton Theorem and Jordan Form.- Polynomials.- Cayley-Hamilton and Spectral Theorems.- Jordan Form.- Problems 4.- 5 - Interlude on Finite Fields.- Finite Fields.- Applications - Linear Codes and Finite Matrix Groups.- Problems 5.- 6 - Hermitian and Inner Product Spaces.- Hermitian and Inner Products, and Norms.- Unitary and Self-adjoint Maps.- Orthogonal and Symmetric Maps.- Problems 6.- 7 - Selected Topics.- The Geometry of Real Quadratic Forms.- Normed Algebras, Quaternions and Cayley Numbers.- to the Representation of Finite Groups.- Problems 7.- Appendix A - Set Theory.- Sets and Maps.- Problems A.- Appendix B - Answers and Solutions to the Problems.- Notation Index.- Definition Index.- Theorem Index.

Semi-Infinite Geometry is a theory of "doubly infinite-dimensional" geometric or topological objects. In this book the author explains what should be meant by an algebraic variety of semi-infinite nature. Then he applies the framework of semiderived categories, suggested in his previous monograph titled Homological Algebra of Semimodules and Semicontramodules, (Birkhäuser, 2010), to the study of semi-infinite algebraic varieties. Quasi-coherent torsion sheaves and flat pro-quasi-coherent pro-sheaves on ind-schemes are discussed at length in this book, making it suitable for use as an introduction to the theory of quasi-coherent sheaves on ind-schemes. The main output of the homological theory developed in this monograph is the functor of semitensor product on the semiderived category of quasi-coherent torsion sheaves, endowing the semiderived category with the structure of a tensor triangulated category. The author offers two equivalent constructions of the semitensor product, as well as its particular case, the cotensor product, and shows that they enjoy good invariance properties. Several geometric examples are discussed in detail in the book, including the cotangent bundle to an infinite-dimensional projective space, the universal fibration of quadratic cones, and the important popular example of the loop group of an affine algebraic group.

Parallelizable Methods for Modeling Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media.- A Multifractal Analysis of Dispersion During Miscible Flow in Porous Media.- Homogenization in a Perforated Domain Including a Thin Full Interlayer.- Indirect Determination of Hydraulic Properties of Porous Media.- Reactive Flows in Porous Media: The Reaction-Infiltration Instability.- A Study of the Effect of Inhomogeneities on Immiscible Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs.- A Massively Parallel Iterative Numerical Algorithm for Immiscible Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs.- Two-Dimensional Solute Transport.- Multiphase Saturation Equations, Change of Type and Inaccessible Regions.- A Central Limit Theorem for Multiscaled Permeability.- Front Tracking for the Unstable Hele-Shaw and Muskat Problems.- Regularity and Uniqueness Results for Two-Phase Miscible Flows in Porous Media.- Distributed Microstructure Models of Porous Media.- Multidimensional Degenerate Diffusion Problem with Evolutionary Boundary Condition: Existence, Uniqueness, and Approximation.