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This volume includes the proceedings of a workshop on Invariant Theory held at Queen's University (Ontario). The workshop was part of the theme year held under the auspices of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) in Montreal. The gathering brought together two communities of researchers: those working in characteristic 0 and those working in positive characteristic. The book contains three types of papers: survey articles providing introductions to computational invariant theory, modular invariant theory of finite groups, and the invariant theory of Lie groups; expository works recounting recent research in these three areas and beyond; and open problems of current interest. The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers working in invariant theory.

Am Anfang der über 100jährigen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Verbrennungskraftmaschine waren die Torsionsschwingungen der Kurbelwelle zunächst eine unbekannte Schwingungserscheinung. Ausgelöst wurde die Entdeckung der Torsionsschwingungen erst durch die Kurbelwellenbrüche von 6-Zylinder-Reihenmotoren, die am Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts zum Antrieb von Marinefahr­ zeugen verwendet und mit relativ hoher Kolbengeschwindigkeit gefahren wurden. Die Erkenntnis, daß diese Kurbelwellenbrüche keine Gewaltbrüche, sondern Überschreitungen der von WOEHLER erkannten Dauerwechselfestigkeit des Materials gegenüber Torsion waren, führte zu der Ent­ wicklung der Grundlagen der Torsionsschwingungstheorie. Mit Hilfe dieser Theorie konnten die gefährlichen Resonanzdreh.;ahlen der Torsionsschwingungen der Kurbelwellen vorausberechnet und die Auswirkungen von Maßnahmen zur Begrenzung der Torsionsbeanspruchung abgeschätzt werden. Ohne diese theoretischen Erkenntnisse wäre das Torsionsschwingungsproblem unlösbar geblieben, und die Entwicklung des modernen hochaufgeladenen Dieselmotors großer Zylinderzahl wäre unmöglich gewesen. Das nunmehr schon seit mehr als 60 Jahren bekannte Berechnungsmodell zur Untersuchung der Torsionsschwingungen von Kurbelwellen wird in etwas modifizierter Form auch heute noch ver­ wendet. Die volle Nutzung dieses Modells ist jedoch wegen des enormen Berechnungsaufwands erst seit der Verwendung programmgesteuerter elektronischer Rechenmaschinen möglich. Der vorliegende Band 4 der Neuen Folge der Reihe'Die Verbrennungskraftmaschine', unter den Her­ ausgebern LIST/PISCHINGER, behandelt das Torsionsschwingungsproblem des Motortriebwerks in bisher unbekannter Vollständigkeit. Die Torsionsschwingungen der Kurbelwellen werden heute sowohl in derIndustrie als auch an den Hochschulen ausschließlich mit Hilfe der EDV berechnet. Deshalb enthält der Band 4 weit mehr FORTRAN-Programme als die beiden vorhergehenden Bände 2 und 3, wobei der FORTRAN-Code auch als Hilfsmittel zur Definition von Algorithmen verwendet wird.

Die neuerliche weltweite Zunahme von Infektionserkrankungen, Veränderungen der Resistenz von Erregern sowie unser zunehmendes Verständnis der Mechanismen immunologischer Reaktionen verleihen diesem Band gerade jetzt hohe Aktualität. Der thematische Schwerpunkt wird auf die Darstellung der Pathologie des Immunsystems einschließlich angeborener Immundefekte, chemotherapieresistenter Erreger, den Impfschutz, die molekulargenetischen Grundlagen der Allergie sowie die erworbene Immunschwäche gelegt. Den inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt der einzelnen Kapitel bildet die Darstellung der molekularen Ursachen einschlägiger Erkrankungen und die auf dieser Grundlage möglich gewordene molekularmedizinische Diagnostik und Therapie.

In the past ten years, there have been significant advances in the diagnosis and therapy of arterial vascular disease. While long-term morbidity can only be improved by changing the patient's life-style and removing any risk factors that may be present(hypertension, hyperlipidemia,obesity,diabetesmellitus, nicotine abuse), symptomatic relief may be obtained by various procedures. Besides conservative treatment of arterial occlusive disease (physical therapy, medical treatment) and surgical vascular interventions (thromboendarterectomy, bypass procedures), balloon catheters introduced percutaneously under local anesthesia have found increased application in virtually all areas for the dilatation and recanalization of obstructive lesions in the past few years. The technique of balloon dilatation, as introduced by Griintzig as a further development of the percutaneous interventions by Dotter and Judkins, is no longer the decisive issue. The main objective of present clinical research is to de­ termine the proper indications and patient selection for this procedure, which has found its place between conservative treatment and surgery. The contents of this Symposium should provide some guidelines for the indi­ cations and postprocedural therapy for the referring physician, the angiologist, and for the radiologist and cardiologist performing the dilatation. We owe our thanks to all the specialists involved, who have provided us with the benefits of their experience. Mrs. H. Beilmann and Dr. M. Wojtowycz con­ tributed substantially to the preparation of the text. I would like to thank them and the staff of Springer-Verlag for their conscientious work in the interest of composition and publication quality.

Perry's The Chemotherapy Source Book, now in its fifth edition, provides information on the choice of chemotherapeutic agents, the use of combination chemotherapy, and the toxicity of individual drugs. Organized by site, this is the only book of its kind to focus strictly on the clinical practice of chemotherapy, and is meant to serve as a “one-stop shop” for information on choice of chemotherapeutic agents, treatment outlines, grading of side effects, and dose modification.

L'endomètre, ce remarquable tissu d'origine mésenchymateuse doté de plasticité et de mémoire, tissu cible hormono sensible mais aussi doué de sécrétions propres, rythme par ses remaniements perpétuels la vie de la femme. Son activité s'étend de la période pré pubertaire jusqu'à la ménopause... et au delà. Il joue un rôle clé dans la procréation. A chaque époque de la vie, il peut développer des pathologies et présenter des dysfonctionnements. Il réagit également aux agressions pathologiques qu'elles soient gynécologiques, générales, métaboliques, infectieuses ou environnementales, ainsi qu'à leur thérapeutique. La connaissance fine de son fonctionnement lors du cycle menstruel, de l'angiogenèse, de l'implantation et du développement embryonnaire, les avancées thérapeutiques de ses pathologies constituent un enjeu majeur de santé publique dans des domaines aussi sensibles que ceux de l'infertilité, des avortements à répétition, des ménométrorragies, du cancer.... C'est, depuis neuf ans, le premier livre sur l'endomètre écrit en langue française qui touche à des domaines aussi variés de la recherche, de la biologie, de la clinique, de l'imagerie et de la thérapeutique lui conférant un caractère unique de référence. Ce livre a été conçu de façon collégiale par le Groupe d'Études et de Recherche sur l'Endomètre (GERE) et le Groupe de Recherche et d'Étude du Placenta (GREP), tous deux affiliés à la Société Française de Gynéco-Pathologie.

Das Management der Kundenbeziehungen ist ein wesentlicher Treiber für den nachhaltigen Erfolg von Banken. Die gegenwärtige Praxis im Relationship Banking ist allerdings noch von methodischen Defiziten bei der CRM-spezifischen Organisationsgestaltung und Informationsversorgung geprägt. Clément U. Mengue Nkoa entwickelt ein Referenzmodell als Instrument zur Gestaltung und Optimierung institutsspezifischer Prozesse des Kundenbeziehungsmanagements. Neben einem auf den Bereichen Marketing, Vertrieb und Service aufbauenden Ordnungsrahmen werden Funktions- und Prozessmodelle abgebildet und anhand einer Projektstudie bei einer Universalbank validiert. Damit liefert der Autor Ansatzpunkte für eine umfassende Kundenorientierung, die Stärkung der Kundenbindung und die Wertorientierung im Relationship Banking.

Forensic Investigation of Stolen-Recovered and Other Crime-Related Vehicles provides unique and detailed insights into the investigations of one of the most common crime scenes in the world. In addition to a thorough treatment of auto theft, the book covers vehicles involved in other forms of crime—dealing extensively with the various procedures and dynamics of evidence as it might be left in any crime scene. An impressive collection of expert contributors covers a wide variety of subjects, including chapters on vehicle identification, examination of burned vehicles, vehicles recovered from under water, vehicles involved in terrorism, vehicle tracking, alarms, anti-theft systems, steering columns, and ignition locks. The book also covers such topics as victim and witness interviews, public and private auto theft investigations, detection of trace evidence and chemical traces, vehicle search techniques, analysis of automotive fluids, vehicle registration, document examination, and vehicle crime mapping. It is the ultimate reference guide for any auto theft investigator, crime scene technician, criminalist, police investigator, criminologist, or insurance adjuster. - Extensively researched and exceptionally well-written by internationally-recognized experts in auto theft investigation and forensic science - All the principles explained in the text are well-illustrated and demonstrated with more than 450 black and white and about 100 full-color illustrations, many directly from real cases - Serves as both a valuable reference guide to the professional and an effective teaching tool for the forensic science student

Although distant metastases are the most dreaded situation in the evolution of cancer of every organ, the medical literature has surprisingly given little attention to the anatomical relationship between the primary tumor and metastasic sites. Only risk factors, treatment possibilities, and survival results are extensively examined. Stimulated by the occurrence in his practice of some puzzling and unexpected metastases, the author reviewed more than 12,000 references. He looked for anatomical relationships highlighting the relation between the location of the primary tumors and the particular patterns of metastasis observed. It would seem that the `pathways and flows'are apparently a more decisive factor in the implantation of the metastases than the `seed and soil'properties of the cancer cells and the metastatic site. Aided by his colleague Dr. T. Geukens, M.D., the author includes original anatomical drawings, illustrating the sometimes unexpected pathways the cancer cells follow in order to reach the organs where they will become lodged and give rise to metastatic tumors. The subject has apparently not been exhausted in the literature and several ideas are given for further research.

The book presents a systematic and unified study of geometric nonlinear functional analysis. This area has its classical roots in the beginning of the twentieth century and is now a very active research area, having close connections to geometric measure theory, probability, classical analysis, combinatorics, and Banach space theory. The main theme of the book is the study of uniformly continuous and Lipschitz functions between Banach spaces (e.g., differentiability, stability, approximation, existence of extensions, fixed points, etc.). This study leads naturally also to the classification of Banach spaces and of their important subsets (mainly spheres) in the uniform and Lipschitz categories. Many recent rather deep theorems and delicate examples are included with complete and detailed proofs. Challenging open problems are described and explained, and promising new research directions are indicated.

Historians often rely on a handful of unusual cases to illustrate the absence of free speech in the colonies—such as that of Richard Barnes, who had his arms broken and a hole bored through his tongue for seditious words against the governor of Virginia. In this definitive and accessible work, Larry Eldridge convincingly debunks this view by revealing surprising evidence of free speech in early America.Using the court records of every American colony that existed before 1700 and an analysis of over 1,200 seditious speech cases sifted from those records, A Distant Heritage shows how colonists experienced a dramatic expansion during the seventeenth century of their freedom to criticize government and its officials. Exploring important changes in the roles of juries and appeals, the nature of prosecution and punishment, and the pattern of growing leniency, Eldridge also shows us why this expansion occurred when it did. He concludes that the ironic combination of tumult and destabilization on the one hand, and steady growth and development on the other, made colonists more willing to criticize authority openly and officials less able to prevent it. That, in turn, established a foundation for the more celebrated flowering of colonial dissent against English authority in the eighteenth century.Steeped in primary sources and richly narrated, this is an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in legal history, colonial America, or the birth of free speech in the United States.

There have been a number of studies published on the activities of British and German navies during World War I, but little on naval action in other arenas. This book offers for the first time a balanced history of the naval war as a whole, viewed from the perspective of all participants in all major theaters. The author's earlier examination The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918, centered on submarine activities and allied efforts to counteract this new menace. With this welcome sequel he again takes the reader beyond those World War I operations staged on the North Sea. Halpern's clear and authoritative voice lends a cohesiveness to this encompassing view of the Italians and Austrians in the Adriatic; the Russians, Germans, and Turks in the Baltic and Black Seas; and French and British in the Mediterranean. Important riverine engagements--notably on the Danube--also are included, along with major colonial campaigns such as Mesopotamia and the Dardanelles. The role of neutral sea powers, such as the Swedes in the Baltic and the Dutch in the East Indies, is examined from the perspective of how their neutrality affected naval activity. Also discussed is the part played by the U.S. Navy and the often overlooked, but far from negligible, role of the Japanese navy. The latter is viewed in the context of the opening months of the war and in the Mediterranean during the height of the submarine crisis of 1917.

Die Reihe Studia Linguistica Germanica (SLG), 1968 von Ludwig Erich Schmitt und Stefan Sonderegger begründet, ist ein renommiertes Publikationsorgan der germanistischen Linguistik. Die Reihe verfolgt das Ziel, mit dem Schwerpunkt auf sprach- und wissenschaftshistorischen Fragestellungen die gesamte Bandbreite des Faches zu repräsentieren. Dazu zählen u. a. Arbeiten zur historischen Grammatik und Semantik des Deutschen, zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Kultur, zur Geschichte der Sprachtheorie, zur Dialektologie, Lexikologie/Lexikographie, Textlinguistik und zur Einbettung des Deutschen in den europäischen Sprachkontext.