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Spiders are super predators and devour everything they can overpower. To do this, they have developed incredibly good catching techniques and, with spider silk, a tool that makes material technolog...

This book gives a comprehensive account of Maude, a language and system based on rewriting logic. Many examples are used throughout the book to illustrate the main ideas and features of Maude, and ...

Algorithmic design, especially for hard problems, is more essential for success in solving them than any standard improvement of current computer tech nologies. Because of this, the design of algor...

This work relates to the remote sensing technologies to determine wind velocity and its related phenomena. Laser-based pulsed systems with heterodyne detection allow a very sensitive measurement of...

This book is a completely revised, substantially extended treatment of the physical and biological factors that drive life in high mountains. The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant lif...

Invited Lectures.- Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms.- Reliable and Efficient Geometric Computing.- Some Computational Challenges in Today's Bio-medicine.- Contributed Paper...

The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, spawned a multitude of pro grammes aimed at assessing, managing and conserving the earth's ...

Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life - with the exposure of organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text treats ...

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Algorithms and Model Formulations in Mathematical Programming" was held at Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, from June 15 to June 19, 1987. The ...

This book explores the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas.  Although schools of this kind have existed for more than a century, very litt...

,,Alter Tanz für zwei Klaviere" was written one year after the "Sonatina" and is almost my last composition. The title meaning "Old Dance" reveals what it is about, thus a composition that is very ...

This volume contains the 14 contributed papers and the contribution of the distinguished invited speaker B´ ela Bollob´ as presented at the 3rd Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph (...

This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the 2011 edition, both for the main event and workshop. The ISAmI workshop WoRIE promises to be a very interesting event that complements...

The first fireboats from the late 18th century were tugboats, fitted with firefighting equipment. Modern fireboats are capable of pumping sometimes tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute ...

With her refined sense of political and social contexts, the contemporary painter Aliza Nisenbaum focuses on her colorful portraits of socially and politically underrepresented groups. For example,...