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  • 1990-1994  (18)
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  • 1
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    ISBN: 9783034877466
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 197 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: ICSELL International Cooper Series in English Language and Literature
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Comparative literature.
    Abstract: One: Comic Sense and the Problem of Attitude -- Two: Robert Coover and The Comedy of Good & Bad Sport -- Three: Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Novels as a Comic “Künstler-Roman” -- Four: Stanley Elkin’s Comic Passion -- Five: Conclusion -- Works Cited.
    Abstract: The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova­ tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo­ dernism. It is obvious, at the same time, that comic has become an elusive and, more often than not, a disputable category. Frederick Karl, in his sur­ vey of American Fictions 1940-1980, maintains, for instance, that much comic writing consists in ridicule that lacks deeper intellectual and cul­ tural roots. "Wit and mockery," he notes, "by themselves have little lasting value. Even in the best of such fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, one is made aware of attenuated skits stiched onto previous segments, rather than baked in by a defined point of view. " (Karl: 27) Such assessments of course challenge my view that the comic is in significant ways connected with what is innovative in postmodernist US-American fiction. Yet the term comic -or related terms like humour, parody, irony and so fort- is regularly and heavily employed in discussions or reviews of con­ temporary fiction.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783034875424
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 364 p) , digital
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    ISBN: 9783034875516
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    ISBN: 9783034872713
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    ISBN: 9783034875240
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Geometry. ; Mathematics. ; History. ; Topology. ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: Life and work of Eduard ?ech -- Bibliography of E. ?ech -- ?ech-Stone Compactification -- On Bicompact Spaces, Annals of Mathematics 38, 1937 -- Remark on Bicompact Spaces, Annals of Mathematics 38, 1937 -- On Rings of Continuous Functions on Topological Spaces, Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l’Académie des Sciences de l’URSS 22, 1939 -- Stone-?ech Compactifications of Products, Transactions of Amer. Math. Soc. 90, 1959 -- Stone-?ech Homogeneity Problems in the Theory of ?ech Compactifications, Duke Math. J. 23, 1956 -- On a Universal Bicompactum of Weight N, Doklady Akad. Nauk. SSSR 150, 1963. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- Non-Homogeneity of ?P - P, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolinae 8, 1967 -- Weak P-Points in N*, Colloquia Math. Soc. J. Bolyai 23, 1978 -- Dimension Theory -- On the Dimension of Perfectly Normal Spaces, Bull. Intern. Acad. Tcheque Sci. 33, 1932. (Translated from French by J. Vanzura) -- Contribution to Dimension Theory, ?asopis P?st. Mat. Fys. 62, 1933. (Translated from Czech by P. Simon) -- On the Dimension of Bicompacta, Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR 67, 1949. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- Inductive Dimension of Completely Normal Spaces, Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. (2) 4, 1953 -- Dimension of Metric Spaces, Fundamenta Mathematicae 43, 1956 -- On the Dimension of Compact Spaces, Czechoslovak Math. J. 8, 1958. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- Bicompacta with Distinct Dimensions ind and dim, Doklady Akad. Nauk. SSSR 192, 1970. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- A Hereditarily Normal Strongly Zero-Dimensional Space with a Subspace of Positive Dimension and an N-Compact Space of Positive Dimension, Fundamenta Mathematicae 97, 1977 -- Spaces with Noncoinciding Dimensions, Proceedings of Amer. Math. Soc. 94, 1985 -- Algebraic Topology -- General Homology Theory in an Arbitrary Space, Fundamenta Mathematicae 10, 1932. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Betti Groups of an Infinite Complex, Fundamenta Mathematicae 25, 1935. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Multiplications On a Complex, Annals of Math. 37, 1936 -- On Generalized Manifolds, American J. of Math. 55, 1933 -- ?ech Cohomology Theory and the Axioms, Annals of Math. 51, 1950 -- Differential Geometry -- On the Surfaces All Segre Curves of Which Are Plane Curves, Publ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Masaryk 11, 1922. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Developable Transformations of Line Congruences, Czechoslovak Math. J. 6, 1956. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- On the Differential Geometry of a Surface Embedded in a Three Dimensional Space With Projective Connection, Czechoslovak Math. J. 11, 1961. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Order of Holonomy of a Surface With Projective Connection, ?asopis P?st. Mat. 96, 1971 -- Geometric Deformations of the Evolution Equations and Bäcklund Transformations, Physica 18D, 1986 -- Professor ?ech and Didactics of Mathematics -- Acknowledgement.
    Abstract: The work of Professor Eduard Cech had a si~ificant influence on the development of algebraic and general topology and differential geometry. This book, which appears on the occasion of the centenary of Cech's birth, contains some of his most important papers and traces the subsequent trends emerging from his ideas. The body of the book consists of four chapters devoted to algebraic topology, Cech-Stone compactification, dimension theory and differential geometry. Each of these includes a selection of Cech's papers, a brief summary of some results which followed from his work or constituted solutions to the problems he posed, and several selected papers by various authors concerning the areas of study he initiated. The book also contains a concise biography borrowed with minor changes from the book Topological papers of E. tech, a list of Cech's publications and a very brief note on his activity in the didactics of mathematics. The editors wish to express their sincere gratitude to all who contributed to the completion and publication of this book.
    Description / Table of Contents: Life and work of Eduard ?echBibliography of E. ?ech -- ?ech-Stone Compactification -- On Bicompact Spaces, Annals of Mathematics 38, 1937 -- Remark on Bicompact Spaces, Annals of Mathematics 38, 1937 -- On Rings of Continuous Functions on Topological Spaces, Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l’Académie des Sciences de l’URSS 22, 1939 -- Stone-?ech Compactifications of Products, Transactions of Amer. Math. Soc. 90, 1959 -- Stone-?ech Homogeneity Problems in the Theory of ?ech Compactifications, Duke Math. J. 23, 1956 -- On a Universal Bicompactum of Weight N, Doklady Akad. Nauk. SSSR 150, 1963. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- Non-Homogeneity of ?P - P, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolinae 8, 1967 -- Weak P-Points in N*, Colloquia Math. Soc. J. Bolyai 23, 1978 -- Dimension Theory -- On the Dimension of Perfectly Normal Spaces, Bull. Intern. Acad. Tcheque Sci. 33, 1932. (Translated from French by J. Vanzura) -- Contribution to Dimension Theory, ?asopis P?st. Mat. Fys. 62, 1933. (Translated from Czech by P. Simon) -- On the Dimension of Bicompacta, Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR 67, 1949. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- Inductive Dimension of Completely Normal Spaces, Quart. J. Math. Oxford Ser. (2) 4, 1953 -- Dimension of Metric Spaces, Fundamenta Mathematicae 43, 1956 -- On the Dimension of Compact Spaces, Czechoslovak Math. J. 8, 1958. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- Bicompacta with Distinct Dimensions ind and dim, Doklady Akad. Nauk. SSSR 192, 1970. (Translated from Russian by P. Simon) -- A Hereditarily Normal Strongly Zero-Dimensional Space with a Subspace of Positive Dimension and an N-Compact Space of Positive Dimension, Fundamenta Mathematicae 97, 1977 -- Spaces with Noncoinciding Dimensions, Proceedings of Amer. Math. Soc. 94, 1985 -- Algebraic Topology -- General Homology Theory in an Arbitrary Space, Fundamenta Mathematicae 10, 1932. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Betti Groups of an Infinite Complex, Fundamenta Mathematicae 25, 1935. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Multiplications On a Complex, Annals of Math. 37, 1936 -- On Generalized Manifolds, American J. of Math. 55, 1933 -- ?ech Cohomology Theory and the Axioms, Annals of Math. 51, 1950 -- Differential Geometry -- On the Surfaces All Segre Curves of Which Are Plane Curves, Publ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Masaryk 11, 1922. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Developable Transformations of Line Congruences, Czechoslovak Math. J. 6, 1956. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- On the Differential Geometry of a Surface Embedded in a Three Dimensional Space With Projective Connection, Czechoslovak Math. J. 11, 1961. (Translated from French by J. Vanžura) -- Order of Holonomy of a Surface With Projective Connection, ?asopis P?st. Mat. 96, 1971 -- Geometric Deformations of the Evolution Equations and Bäcklund Transformations, Physica 18D, 1986 -- Professor ?ech and Didactics of Mathematics -- Acknowledgement.
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    ISBN: 9783034863452
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (198 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
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    ISBN: 9783034872119
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    Description / Table of Contents: The evaluation of prevention efforts in national AIDS programmesMethods of Assessment -- Social science research to assist and assess AIDS prevention programs -- Using the classical STDs to monitor HIV prevention programmes -- The benefits of HIV antibody testing of saliva in field research -- A mathematical model to evaluate the impact of a multiple-strategy preventive programme on HIV infection -- Monitoring HIV seroprevalence in STD patients -- The use of male STD history as an indicator for impact assessment -- Evaluating a training program: A multi-dimensional perspective -- General Population -- Prevention strategies and assessment in Thailand -- Prevention strategies and assessment in Kenya -- Assessing AIDS prevention in Switzerland -- HIV infections in the Federal Republic of Germany -- The Swiss public opinion on drug and AIDS prevention -- Male Homo- and Bisexuals -- Assessing AIDS prevention among male homo- and bisexuals -- Predictors of change, poor outcome and premature drop-out in a randomized control study of AIDS education: The Talking Sex Project -- Migrants -- Assessing AIDS prevention among migrant populations -- Intravenous Drug Users -- The Mersey Harm Reduction Model: evaluation of a local strategy for preventing the spread of HIV among and from IDUs -- Male and Female Prostitutes -- Assessing targeted AIDS prevention in male and female prostitutes and their clients -- Individual Counseling and Preventive Treatment -- Counseling and preventive intervention for HIV-positive persons and AIDS patients -- Targeting clinical and preventive care to and around HIV-infected persons: the concept of early intervention -- Prevention of transfusion-related AIDS in children in Zaire -- Conclusion -- Summing up and research agenda -- Addendum to Section General Population -- Assessing HIV/AIDS preventive strategies in the general population -- List of participants.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9783034851121
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 308 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Mathematics. ; History. ; Science—History. ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: One Mathematical Logic -- Two Algebra and Algebraic Number Theory -- Three Problems of Number Theory -- Four The Theory of Probability -- Addendum (by O. B. She?nin) -- 1. French and German Quotations -- 2. Notes -- Additional Bibliography -- Bibliography (by F.A. Medvedev) -- Abbreviations -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: This multi-authored effort, Mathematics of the nineteenth century (to be fol­ lowed by Mathematics of the twentieth century), is a sequel to the History of mathematics fram antiquity to the early nineteenth century, published in three 1 volumes from 1970 to 1972. For reasons explained below, our discussion of twentieth-century mathematics ends with the 1930s. Our general objectives are identical with those stated in the preface to the three-volume edition, i. e. , we consider the development of mathematics not simply as the process of perfecting concepts and techniques for studying real-world spatial forms and quantitative relationships but as a social process as weIl. Mathematical structures, once established, are capable of a certain degree of autonomous development. In the final analysis, however, such immanent mathematical evolution is conditioned by practical activity and is either self-directed or, as is most often the case, is determined by the needs of society. Proceeding from this premise, we intend, first, to unravel the forces that shape mathe­ matical progress. We examine the interaction of mathematics with the social structure, technology, the natural sciences, and philosophy. Throughan anal­ ysis of mathematical history proper, we hope to delineate the relationships among the various mathematical disciplines and to evaluate mathematical achievements in the light of the current state and future prospects of the science. The difficulties confronting us considerably exceeded those encountered in preparing the three-volume edition.
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9783034872683
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Probabilities. ; Social sciences. ; Humanities.
    Abstract: Robust Stability: The Polynomial Case -- Kharitonov’s Theorem and the Second Method of Lyapunov -- Stability Margins of Perturbed Systems -- Frequency Domain Criteria for Robust Root Locations of Generalized Disc Polynomials -- Computation of Value Sets of Uncertain Transfer Functions -- Robust Stability of General Interconnections of Interval Plants and Unstructured Norm Bounded Perturbations -- Algebraic Approach to Checking Strict Positive Real Property of Uncertain Real Rational Functions -- Stability of Convex Hull of Quasipolynomials -- Robust Stability: Multilinear Parameter Dependence -- Robustness Properties of Multilinear Interval Systems -- Easily Testable Sufficient Conditions for the Robust Stability of Systems with Multiaffine Parameter Dependence -- Robustness Analysis for Multilinear Perturbations -- On the Multiaffine Image of a Cube -- Robust Stability: The Nonlinear Case -- Robust Absolute Stability of Continuous Systems -- Robust Stability: The Matrix Case -- A Branch and Bound Method to Check the Stability of a Polytope of Matrices -- Bounds on the Real Stability Radius -- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Robust Stability with Structured Time-Invariant Perturbations -- A Nonconservative Kronecker Based Theory for Robust Root Clustering of Linear State Space Models with Real Norm Bounded Uncertainty -- A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Quadratic Finite Time Feedback Controllability -- Lyapunov Based Robustness -- Lyapunov Functions for Uncertain Systems -- Robustness Analysis of Linear Control Systems with Uncertain Parameters by the Method of Convex Decomposition -- Performance -- H?-Performance of Interval Plants and Interval Feedback Systems -- Linear vs. Nonlinear Approaches to Robustness Analysis of LTI Control Systems -- Control Design -- Analysis and Design of Robustly Stable Systems via Zero-Set Methods -- A Robust Control Design in the Parameter Space -- Optimizing the Guaranteed Cost in the Control of Uncertain Linear Systems -- Robust PID Control and Lead-Lag Compensation for Linear Interval Systems -- Model Following Robust Control of Linear Time-Varying Uncertain Systems -- A Convex Parameterization of Robustly Stabilizing Controllers -- Robust Compensator Synthesis — An Experimental Application -- Velocity-Independent Yaw Eigenvalues of Four-Wheel Steering Automobiles -- Some Open Problems.
    Abstract: Robust Control is one of the fastest growing and promising areas of research today. In many practical systems there exist uncertainties which have to be considered in the analysis and design of control systems. In the last decade methods were developed for dealing with dynamic systems with unstructured uncertainties such as HOO_ and £I-optimal control. For systems with parameter uncertainties, the seminal paper of V. L. Kharitonov has triggered a large amount of very promising research. An international workshop dealing with all aspects of robust control was successfully organized by S. P. Bhattacharyya and L. H. Keel in San Antonio, Texas, USA in March 1991. We organized the second international workshop in this area in Ascona, Switzer­ land in April 1992. However, this second workshop was restricted to robust control of dynamic systems with parameter uncertainties with the objective to concentrate on some aspects of robust control. This book contains a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Robust Control held at the Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzer­ land on April 12-17, 1992 as well as a list of open problems presented during a dis­ cussion session at the workshop. Thirtyfive leading researchers from all over the world working in the area of robust control of dynamic systems with parameter uncertainties were invited to present their recent results and to discuss with their colleagues the recent advances in this field.
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    ISBN: 9783034886048
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    Abstract: Conspectus siglorum -- Liber I -- Liber II -- Liber III -- Liber IV -- Liber V -- Liber VI -- Liber VII -- Liber VIII -- Liber IX -- Liber X -- Liber XI -- Liber XII -- Liber XIII -- Liber XIV -- Liber XV -- Addenda.
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    ISBN: 9783034886369
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    Abstract: Description of the Manuscripts -- Relationships between the Manuscripts -- Editorial Remarks -- Concordance Heiberg Text - Version II -- Euclides, Elementa -- Liber I -- Liber II -- Liber III -- Liber IV -- Liber V -- Liber VI -- Liber VII -- Liber VIII -- Liber IX -- Liber X -- Liber XI -- Liber XII -- Liber XIII -- Liber XIV -- Liber XV -- Index of Latin Words.
    Abstract: The Latin "Version II", till now attributed to Adelard of Bath, is edited here for the first time. It was the most influential Euclid text in the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries. As the large number of manuscripts and the numerous quotations in other scientific and philosophical texts show, it was far better known than the three Euclid translations made from the Arabic in the 12th century (Adelard of Bath, version I; Hermann of Carinthia; Gerard of Cremona). Version II became the basis of later reworkings, in which the enunciations were taken over, but new proofs supplied; the most important text of this kind is the redaction made by Campanus in the late 1250s, which became the standard Latin "Euclid" in the later Middle Ages. The introduction deals with the questions of when and by whom version II was written. Since Marshall Clagett's fundamental article (1953) it has been generally accepted that version II is one of three Euclid texts attributable to Adelard of Bath. But a comparison of the text of version II with those of versions I and III yields little or no reason to assume that Adelard was the author of version II. Version II must have been written later than version I and before version III; its author was acquainted with Euclid texts of the Boethius tradition and with two of those transmitted from Arabic, version I (almost certainly by Adelard) and the version by Hermann of Carinthia.
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    Abstract: The acridoid grasshoppers in general and the various species of swarm-forming locusts in particular have been among the most favoured subjects of insect physi­ ology, behaviour and ecology for many years. Several factors contribute to this popularity: their abundance in nature and their ease of culture in the laboratory, their relatively large size, and most of all, perhaps, their agricultural importance and the consequent intermittent availability of funds for their study. These factors together have inspired a large amount of experimental work, and this in tum has produced a new and often over-riding reason for working on acridoids -the huge body of available background information and know-how that has built up about these insects. This state of affairs is well seen in insect neurobiology. Only a restricted number of insect types are commonly used in this discipline, and originally most of them were selected for reasons of convenience and availability: grasshoppers, cock­ roaches, crickets, flies, bees and moths are the most important. Each of these in­ sects is the subject of the attentions of one or more major groups of neurobiolo­ gists, but neurobiological articles on acridoids probably exceed in number those on all other insects combined, at least if articles on the molecular biology of the nervous system of Drosophila are excluded.
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    ISBN: 9783034872591
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    Description / Table of Contents: I: Molecular Pharmacology, Cell Biology, Binding Sites and ReceptorsA tribute to Dr. Irvine H. Page -- Molecular neuroanatomy of 5-HT receptors -- Cloning and expression of a human 5-HT1D receptor -- Developmental and synaptic regulation of 5-HT2 and 5-HT1C serotonin receptors -- Serotonin trophic factors in development, plasticity and aging -- A neurotrophic factor - SNTF - for serotonergic neurons -- Molecular mechanisms of action induced by 5-HT3 receptors in a neuronal cell line and by 5-HT2 receptors in a glial cell line -- Characterization of 5-HT3 receptor mediated electrical responses in nodose ganglion neurones and clonal neuroblastoma cells maintained in culture -- Specific antibodies as new tools for studies of central 5-HT1A receptors -- 5-HT1C 5-HT1D and 5-HT2 receptors in mammalian brain: Multiple affinity states with a different regional distribution -- Second messengers in the definition of 5-HT receptors -- 5-HT1P receptors in the bowel: G protein coupling, localization and function -- Is contraction to serotonin mediated via 5-HT1C receptor activation in rat stomach fundus? -- Further definition of the 5-HT receptor mediating contraction of rat stomach fundus: relation to 5-HT1D recognition sites -- Temperature dependence of agonist and antagonist affinity constants at 5-HT1 -like and 5-HT2 receptors -- Characterization of 5-HT3-like receptors in the rat cortex: Electrophysiological and biochemical studies -- Binding characteristics of a quarternary amine analog of serotonin: 5-HTQ -- 5-HT1-like receptors unrelated to the known binding sites? -- II: Peripheral and Central Pharmacology -- The electrophysiology of 5-HT -- Pharmacological characterization of brain 5-HT4 receptors: Relationship between the effects of indole, benzamide and azabicycloalkylbenzimidazolone derivatives -- Pharmacological properties of the putative 5-HT4 receptor in guinea-pig ileum and rat oesophagus: Role in peristalsis -- 5-HT1D and 5-HT4 receptor agonists stimulate the peristaltic reflex in the isolated guinea pig ileum -- The 5-HT4 receptor mediating tachycardia in the pig -- Contractile 5-HT1D receptors in human brain vessels -- Human, monkey and dog coronary artery responses to serotonin and 5-carboxamidotryptamine -- 5-Carboxamidotryptamine induced renal vasoconstriction in the dog -- The subretrofacial nucleus: A major site of action for the cardiovascular effects of 5-HT1A and 5-HT2 agonist drugs -- Cardiovascular effects of injection of 5-HT, 8-OH-DPAT and flesinoxan into the hypothalamus of the rat -- Pharmacological characterization of the receptor mediating 5-HT evoked motoneuronal depolarization in vitro -- Stimulation of 5-HT3 receptors inhibits release of endogenous noradrenaline from hypothalamus -- Antagonism of serotonin agonist-elicited increases in serum corticosterone concentration in rats -- Influence of 5-HT1A and 5-HT2 receptor agonists on blood glucose and insulin levels -- Novel in vivo models of 5-HT1A receptor-mediated activity: 8-OH-DPAT-induced spontaneous tail-flicks and inhibition of morphine-evoked antinociception -- Evidence that the unilateral activation of 5-HT1D receptors in the substantia nigra of the guinea-pig elicits contralateral rotation -- III: Pathophysiological Roles and Prospects for New Therapies -- 5-Hydroxytryptamine and the human heart -- The effects of BRL 24924 (renzapride) on secretion of gastric acid and pepsin in dogs -- Constipation evoked by 5-HT3 receptor antagonists -- Subchronic D-fenfluramine treatment enhances the immunological competence of old female Fischer 344 rats -- Serotonin as a vascular smooth muscle cell mitogen -- Serotonin, the endothelium and the coronary circulation -- Effects of selective 5-HT, receptor antagonists on some haemodynamic changes produced by experimental pulmonary embolism in rabbits -- The vasoconstrictor action of sumatriptan on human isolated dura mater -- Influence of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists on limbic-cortical circuitry -- Utilization of zacopride and its R- and S-enantiomers in studies of 5-HT3 receptor “subtypes” -- CP-93,129: A potent and selective agonist for the serotonin (5-HT1B) receptor and rotationally restricted analog of RU-24,969 -- Differentiation of 8-OH-DPAT and ipsapirone in rat models of 5-HT1A receptor function -- Initial studies in man to characterise MDL 73,000EF, a novel 5-HT1A receptor ligand and putative anxiolytic -- 8-OH-DPAT-induced hypothermia in rodents. A specific model of 5-HT1A autoreceptor function? -- Serotonin release is responsible for the locomotor hyperactivity in rats induced by derivatives of amphetamine related to MDMA.
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities. ; Mathematics. ; History.
    Abstract: I Interference historiography and physics -- I.1 The “mystery” of Young’s theory -- I.2 New approach -- I.3 What is “Young’s wave theory”? -- I.4 “Interference” or “superposition”? -- I.5 What is the “acceptance of a theory”? -- II Thomas Young and the problem of intersecting sounds -- Section I: Young -- Section II: Young’s predecessors -- III Young on interference of mechanical waves -- III.1 Standing waves -- III.2 Tides -- III.3 Coherence of mechanical waves -- III.4 Response to the concept of interference of sound -- III.5 Summary -- IV Discovery of the principle of interference of light -- IV.1 Optical background -- IV.2 Transition from acoustics to optics -- IV.3 The problem of mathematical representation of light -- IV.4 What is the “law of interference”? -- IV.5 The principle of interference and the theory of interference -- V Young’s theory of interference and its application -- Section I: Interference of reflected and refracted light -- Section II: Interference of diffracted light -- Section III: Young on coherence of light -- VI Response to the principle of interference (1801–1815) -- VI.1 Early comments(1801–1805):generalsurvey -- VI.2 British reviews of Young’s theory(1801–1805) -- VI.3 Later response (1807–1815) -- VI.4 Summary -- VII Fresnel and the principle of interference -- VII.1 First period(1815–1816) -- VII.2 Second period (1816–1818) -- VII.3 Third period (1819–1822) -- VII.4 Summary -- VIII Response to Fresnel’s principle of interference -- VIII.1 Arago -- VIII.2 Reception of Fresnel’s first paper -- VIII.3 Contest on diffraction -- VIII.4 Response to Fresnel’s prize-winning memoir -- VIII.5 Principle of interference and the wave theory -- VIII.6 Principle of interference and the emission theory -- VIII.7 Understanding of coherence after Fresnel -- VIII.8 Young’s role after 1815 -- VIII.9 Summary -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: The controversy between the wave theory and the emission theory of light early in the nineteenth century has been a subject of numerous studies. Yet many is­ sues remain unclear, in particular, the reasons for rejecting Young's theory of light. It appears that further progress in the field requires a better grasp of the overall situation in optics and related subjects at the time and a more thorough study of every factor suggested to be of importance for the dispute. This book is intended to be a step in this direction. It examines the impact of the concept of interference of light on the development of the early nineteenth­ century optics in general, and the theory of light, in particular. This is not a his­ tory of the wave theory of light, nor is it a history of the debate on the nature of light in general: it covers only that part of the controversy which involved the concept of interference. Although the book deals with a number of scientists, scientific institutions, and journals, its main character is a scientific concept, the principle of interference. While discussing the reasons for accepting or rejecting this concept I have primarily focused on scientific factors, although in some cases the human factor is examined as well. The book is a revised Ph. D. dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1984) writ­ ten under Alan E. Shapiro.
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    ISBN: 9783034886604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (265 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Science Networks · Historical Studies 7
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Social sciences. ; Humanities. ; Mathematics. ; History.
    Abstract: 1 The place of the theory of functions of a real variable among the mathematical discipline -- 1.1 The subject matter of the theory of functions -- 1.2 Three periods in the development of the theory of functions -- 1.3 The theory of functions and classical analysis -- 1.4 The theory of functions and functional analysis -- 1.5 The theory of functions and other mathematical disciplines -- 2 The history of the concept of a functio -- 2.1 Some textbook definitions of the concept of a function -- 2.2 The concept of a function in ancient times and in the Middle Ages -- 2.3 The seventeenth-century origins of the concept of a function -- 2.4 Some particular approaches to the concept of a function in the seventeenth century -- 2.5 The Eulerian period in the development of the concept of a function -- 2.6 Euler’s contemporaries and heirs -- 2.7 The arbitrariness in a functional correspondence -- 2.8 The Lobachevskii-Dirichlet definition -- 2.9 The extension and enrichment of the concept of a function in the nineteenth century -- 2.10 The definition of a function according to Dedekind -- 2.11 Approaches to the concept of a function from mathematical logic -- 2.12 Set functions -- 2.13 Some other functional correspondences -- 3 Sequences of functions. Various kinds of convergenc -- 3.1 The analytic representation of a function -- 3.2 Simple uniform convergence -- 3.3 Generalized uniform convergence -- 3.4 Arzelà quasiuniform convergence -- 3.5 Convergence almost everywhere -- 3.6 Convergence in measure -- 3.7 Convergence in square-mean. Harnack’s unsuccessful approach -- 3.8 Square-mean convergence. The work of Fischer and certain related investigations -- 3.9 Strong and weak convergence -- 3.10 The Baire classification -- 4 The derivative and the integral in their historical connection -- 4.1 Some general observations -- 4.2 Integral and differential methods up to the first half of the seventeenth century -- 4.3 The analysis of Newton and Leibniz -- 4.4 The groundwork for separating the concepts of derivative and integral -- 4.5 The separation of differentiation and integration -- 4.6 The Radon-Nikodým theorem -- 4.7 The relation between differentiation and integration in the works of Kolmogorov -- 4.8 The relation between differentiation and integration in the works of Carathéodory -- 4.9 A few more general remarks -- 5 Nondifferentiable continuous functions -- 5.1 Some introductory remarks -- 5.2 Ampère’s theorem -- 5.3 Doubts and refutations -- 5.4 Classes of nondifferentiable functions -- 5.5 The relative “smallness” of the set of differentiable functions -- Index of names.
    Abstract: To attempt to compile a relatively complete bibliography of the theory of functions of a real variable with the requisite bibliographical data, to enumer­ ate the names of the mathematicians who have studied this subject, exhibit their fundamental results, and also include the most essential biographical data about them, to conduct an inventory of the concepts and methods that have been and continue to be applied in the theory of functions of a real variable ... in short, to carry out anyone of these projects with appropriate completeness would require a separate book involving a corresponding amount of work. For that reason the word essays occurs in the title of the present work, allowing some freedom in the selection of material. In justification of this selection, it is reasonable to try to characterize to some degree the subject to whose history these essays are devoted. The truth of the matter is that this is a hopeless enterprise if one requires such a characterization to be exhaustively complete and concise. No living subject can be given a final definition without provoking some objections, usually serious ones. But if we make no such claims, a characterization is possible; and if the first essay of the present book appears unconvincing to anyone, the reason is the personal fault of the author, and not the objective necessity of the attempt.
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    ISBN: 9783034872034
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    DDC: 50
    Keywords: Science (General)
    Description / Table of Contents: I. InstrumentationThe Instrumental Contribution of Switzerland to the Development of Electron Microscopy; A Historical Review -- The Swiss STEM Project -- II. The Pioneers -- The Beginning of Electron Microscopy in Zürich -- Chemical Electron Microscopy in Berne -- Early Times of Electron Microscopy in Geneva (1944-1964) -- The ‘Bernese Connection’ of Early Pioneers in Biological Electron Microscopy -- III. Materials Science -- Electron Microscopy at the Batteile Laboratories in Geneva -- IV. Biology and Medicine -- The Contribution of Switzerland to the Development of Embedding Methods in Cytology -- Applications of Transmission Electron Microscopy in Biological Sciences: Preparation Procedures, Contrast Modifications and Ultrastructural Cytochemistry -- The Contribution of Electron Microscopy to Normal Morphology and Pathology Research in Switzerland -- Cryotechniques and Related Methods -- The Contribution of Switzerland to the Development of Morphometry and Stereology -- V. Swiss Society for Optics and Electron Microscopy -- History of the Swiss Society for Optics and Electron Microscopy.
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    ISBN: 9783034851169
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 214 p) , online resource
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    Abstract: These notes developed from a course on the numerical solution of conservation laws first taught at the University of Washington in the fall of 1988 and then at ETH during the following spring. The overall emphasis is on studying the mathematical tools that are essential in de­ veloping, analyzing, and successfully using numerical methods for nonlinear systems of conservation laws, particularly for problems involving shock waves. A reasonable un­ derstanding of the mathematical structure of these equations and their solutions is first required, and Part I of these notes deals with this theory. Part II deals more directly with numerical methods, again with the emphasis on general tools that are of broad use. I have stressed the underlying ideas used in various classes of methods rather than present­ ing the most sophisticated methods in great detail. My aim was to provide a sufficient background that students could then approach the current research literature with the necessary tools and understanding. vVithout the wonders of TeX and LaTeX, these notes would never have been put together. The professional-looking results perhaps obscure the fact that these are indeed lecture notes. Some sections have been reworked several times by now, but others are still preliminary. I can only hope that the errors are not too blatant. Moreover, the breadth and depth of coverage was limited by the length of these courses, and some parts are rather sketchy.
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