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Quadratic Forms, Linear Algebraic Groups, and Cohomology (Developments in Mathematics #18)

Questions on Algebraic Varieties: Lectures given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Varenna (Como), Italy, September 7-17, 1969 (C.I.M.E. Summer Schools #51)

P. Dolbeault: Résidus et courants.- D. Mumford: Varieties defined by quadratic equations.- A. Néron: Hauteurs et théorie des intersections.- A. Seidenberg: Report on analytic product.- C.S. Seshadri: Moduli of p-vector bundles over an algebraic curve.- O. Zariski: Contributions to the problem of equi-singularity.

Random Vibration and Spectral Analysis/Vibrations aléatoires et analyse spectral (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications #33)

I became interested in Random Vibration during the preparation of my PhD dissertation, which was concerned with the seismic response of nuclear reactor cores. I was initiated into this field through the cla.ssical books by Y.K.Lin, S.H.Crandall and a few others. After the completion of my PhD, in 1981, my supervisor M.Gera.din encouraged me to prepare a course in Random Vibration for fourth and fifth year students in Aeronautics, at the University of Liege. There was at the time very little material available in French on that subject. A first draft was produced during 1983 and 1984 and revised in 1986. These notes were published by the Presses Poly techniques et Universitaires Romandes (Lausanne, Suisse) in 1990. When Kluwer decided to publish an English translation ofthe book in 1992, I had to choose between letting Kluwer translate the French text in-extenso or doing it myself, which would allow me to carry out a sustantial revision of the book. I took the second option and decided to rewrite or delete some of the original text and include new material, based on my personal experience, or reflecting recent technical advances. Chapter 6, devoted to the response of multi degree offreedom structures, has been completely rewritten, and Chapter 11 on random fatigue is entirely new. The computer programs which have been developed in parallel with these chapters have been incorporated in the general purpose finite element software SAMCEF, developed at the University of Liege.

The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Introduction To A Science Of Mythology Ser. #Vol. 1)

"Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."—Natural History

Real Algebraic Geometry: Proceedings of the Conference held in Rennes, France, June 24-28, 1991 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #1524)

Real Analytic and Algebraic Geometry: Proceedings of the Conference held in Trento, Italy, October 3-7, 1988 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #1420)

Réanimation et urgences (Le point sur ...)

Réapprendre à voir le monde: Merleau-Ponty face au miroir lacanien (Phaenomenologica #179)

« La vraie philosophie est de rapprendre à voir le monde, et en ce sens une histoire racontée peut signifier le monde avec autant de “p- fondeur” qu’un traité de philosophie. Nous prenons en main notre sort, nous devenons responsables de notre histoire par la réflexion, mais aussi bien par une décision où nous engageons notre vie, et dans les deux cas 1 il s’agit d’un acte violent qui se vérifie en s’exerçant .» Notre étude aura pour tâche d’élucider ce passage, écrit par Maurice Merleau-Ponty dans l’avant-propos de sa Phénoménologie de la perception. S’agit-il d’une nouvelle notion de la philosophie comme apprentissage, non seulement d’un regard théorique sur le monde, mais aussi et surtout d’un regard engagé, un regard qui est déjà dans le monde ? La philosophie pourra- elle nous apprendre comment « prendre en main notre sort », comment faire de notre histoire personnelle une histoire racontée, inventée et créée par la réflexion ? Quelle pourrait donc être cette réflexion en tant qu’acte violent ? Est-ce une philosophie qui se mêle à la vie, qui se confond avec elle tout en la rappelant, en la réapprenant, une façon oubliée de regarder qui est en même temps une façon oubliée de vivre ? Et de quelle vie s’agit-il ? Celle du philosophe même, de ses lecteurs ou de l’homme en tant que tel ? Ce sont ces questions qui vont nous occuper dans les pages qui

Réarrangement Relatif: Un instrument d’estimations dans les problèmes aux limites (Mathématiques et Applications #64)

L'objectif de ce livre est de présenter une méthode méconnue voire nouvelle basée sur le concept du réarrangement relatif qui est le sujet principal de ce livre. Pour ce faire, on a développé des propriétés du réarrangement monotone dont certaines ne se trouvent dans aucun autre ouvrage que dans ce livre (sauf dans des revues) comme les inégalités de Polyà-Szego ou les C_alpha-réarrangements. On y étudie la régularité de la dérivée du réarrangement monotone ainsi que la continuité de cette application dérivée. On y expose les inégalités ponctuelles de Poincaré-Sobolev qui permettent de retrouver les inégalités classiques de Sobolev, mais aussi toutes sortes d'inégalités du même type liées à n'importe quel espace normé comme les espaces de Lorentz. Ces techniques basées les inégalités ponctuelles entre le réarrangement relatif et monotone sont étendues à des équations aux dérivées partielles relevant de la physique, de la chimie, pour obtenir des résultats de régularité dans des espaces normés autres que ceux de Lebesgue, des comportements asymptotiques ou des comparaisons de solutions. We present here a new method for mathematical analysis, especially for obtaining Sobolev inequalities in any normed spaces or Polyà-Szego inequalities or a priori estimates for P.D.E. in non standard spaces as Lorentz spaces or generalized gamma spaces. This method is based on pointwise inequalities linking the derivative of the monotone rearrangement and the relative rearrangement of the gradient of a function. We present some applications in physics, chemistry, or in optimization problems.

Recent Developments in the Algebraic, Analytical, and Topological Theory of Semigroups: Proceedings of a Conference held at Oberwolfach, Germany, May 24-30, 1981 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #998)

Rechtsweggarantie im vergleichenden Verwaltungsrecht: Wechselseitige Einflüsse zwischen Rechtsordnungen am Beispiel des Zugangs zum Gericht gegen das Handeln der Exekutive im deutschen, französischen, europäischen und internationalen Recht – Influences mutuelles entre ordres juridiques à l’exemple du droit d’accès au juge contre les actes du pouvoir exécutif en droits allemand, français, européen et international (Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht #295)

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit aktuellen Fragen des Zugangs zu nationalen und internationalen Gerichten im Verwaltungsrecht aus einem rechtsvergleichenden Blickwinkel. Der diesem Buch zugrundeliegende Ansatz ist das Zusammenführen der deutschen, französischen und unionsrechtlichen oder völkerrechtlichen Sicht auf ausgewählte Themenbereiche, in denen der Gerichtszugang gewissen Besonderheiten unterliegt. Dabei handelt es sich um den Zugang zum Gericht von Umweltschutzvereinigungen, in Asylrechtsstreitigkeiten, im Vergaberecht, von Beschäftigten und Vertragspartnern internationaler Organisationen und von Betroffenen außerhalb internationaler Organisationen. Wissenschaftler und Praktiker arbeiten die wechselseitigen Einwirkungen heraus, und behandeln Top-Down-Prozesse, Bottom-Up-Prozesse und horizontale Prozesse in deutsch- und französischsprachigen Kapiteln. Abschließend wird aufgezeigt, ob und wie es zu einer Annäherung des deutschen, französischen, europäischen und internationalen Rechts kommen kann.

Recueil de Modèles Aléatoires (Mathématiques et Applications #78)

Ce recueil puise sa source dans les cours de master de mathématiques appliquées et de préparation à l’épreuve de modélisation de l’agrégation de mathématiques. Le parti pris de cet ouvrage est de polariser la rédaction par les modèles plutôt que par les outils, et de consacrer chaque chapitre à un modèle. Le premier public visé est celui des enseignants-chercheurs en probabilités, débutants ou confirmés. De nombreux chapitres peuvent également bénéficier directement à des étudiants de master ou préparant l’agrégation.This collection was inspired by applied mathematics Master classes in stochastic modeling. The focus is on models rather than on tools, and each chapter is devoted to a specific model. Though the book is primarily intended for academics in the field of probability theory, beginners and experienced researchers alike, many chapters will also benefit students preparing to pursue their Master degree in mathematics.

The Red Countess: Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)

Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. She translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s with her Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children, which were widely translated including into Chinese and Japanese. Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life-long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951. This new, expanded edition contains: Zur Mühlen’s autobiographical memoir, The End and the Beginning; The editor’s detailed notes on the persons and events mentioned in the autobiography; A selection of Zur Mühlen’s short stories and two fairy tales; A synopsis of Zur Mühlen’s untranslated novel Our Daughters the Nazi Girls; An essay by the Editor on Zur Mühlen’s life and work; A bibliography of Zur Mühlen’s novels in English translation; A portfolio of selected illustrations of her work by George Grosz and Heinrich Vogeler; A free online supplement with additional original material

Rediscovering Phenomenology: Phenomenological Essays on Mathematical Beings, Physical Reality, Perception and Consciousness (Phaenomenologica #182)

This book proposes a new phenomenological analysis of the questions of perception and cognition which are of paramount importance for a better understanding of those processes which underlies the formation of knowledge and consciousness. It presents many clear arguments showing how a phenomenological perspective helps to deeply interpret most fundamental findings of current research in neurosciences and also in mathematical and physical sciences.

Régression: Théorie et applications (Statistique et probabilités appliquées)

Cet ouvrage expose de manière détaillée, exemples à l'appui, l’une des méthodes statistiques les plus courantes : la régression. Les premiers chapitres sont consacrés à la régression linéaire simple et multiple. Ils expliquent les fondements de la méthode, tant au niveau des choix opérés que des hypothèses et de leur utilité. Ensuite sont développés les outils permettant de vérifier les hypothèses de base mises en œuvre par la régression. Une présentation simple des modèles d'analyse de la covariance et de la variance est effectuée. Enfin, les derniers chapitres sont consacrés au choix de modèles ainsi qu'à certaines extensions de la régression: lasso, PLS, PCR... La présentation témoigne d'un réel souci pédagogique des auteurs qui bénéficient d'une expérience d'enseignement auprès de publics très variés. Les résultats exposés sont replacés dans la perspective de leur utilité pratique grâce à l'analyse d'exemples concrets. Les commandes permettant le traitement des exemples sous le logiciel R figurent dans le corps du texte. Enfin chaque chapitre est complété par une suite d'exercices corrigés. Le niveau mathématique requis le rend accessible aux étudiants des écoles d'ingénieurs, de Masters et aux chercheurs dans les divers domaines des sciences appliquées.

Regulating the Académie: Art, Rules and Power in ancien régime France (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment #2009:08)

The acclaimed Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, the second oldest academy in France, was abolished in 1793. Whilst a number of studies have explored the drama of its dissolution, often associated with a speech by former member Jacques-Louis David, this outcome can only be fully understood in the context of the evolving governance of the institution.In this groundbreaking work, Reed Benhamou provides the first comprehensive examination of the codes and practices of the Académie, from its inception in 1648 to its abolition in 1793. As well as exploring why certain rules were adopted, how they facilitated the development of institutional power bases, and the part they played in the Académie’s growing factionalism, the author uncovers changing attitudes to the guild, women, associate academicians and unaffiliated artists. This astute and comprehensive analysis is followed by nine annotated appendices of both registered and proposed statutes and of other related documents, many of which are made readily accessible for the first time.Offering new insights into the tensions between art and state throughout the ancien régime and beyond, Regulating the Académie is an invaluable reference not only for art historians, but also for those working in cultural or legal history.

Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: Lectures given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Bressanone (Bolzano), Italy, June 7-16, 1970 (C.I.M.E. Summer Schools #52)

Pham Mau Quam: Problèmes mathématiques en hydrodynamique relativiste.- A. Lichnerowicz: Ondes de choc, ondes infinitésimales et rayons en hydrodynamique et magnétohydrodynamique relativistes.- A.H. Taub: Variational principles in general relativity.- J. Ehlers: General relativistic kinetic theory of gases.- K. Marathe: Abstract Minkowski spaces as fibre bundles.- G. Boillat: Sur la propagation de la chaleur en relativité.

Relatività generale: Lectures given at a Summer School of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held in Salice d´Ulzio (Torino), Italy, July 16-25, 1964 (C.I.M.E. Summer Schools #32)

J. Ehlers: Gravitational Waves.- L. Bel: Sur quelques problèmes physiques relatifs au ds2 de Schwarzschild.- G. Ferrarese: Proprietà di secondo rodine di un generico riferimento fisico in relatività generale.- L. Mariot: Interprétations physiques du quinzième potentiel en théorie pentadimensionelle.- G. Caricato: Sul problema di Cauchy per le equazioni gravitazionali nel vuoto.

Réparations tissulaires à la jambe: De l’os...à la peau (Approche pratique en orthopédie-traumatologie)

Repartition Modulo 1: Actes du Colloque Marseille-Luminy, 4-7 Juin, 1974 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #475)

Representations de Groupes Localement Compacts (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #276)

Représentations de Weil et GL2 - Algèbres de division et GLn: Vers les corps de classes galoisiens I, II (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #1252)

This monograph represents the first two parts of the author's research on the generalization of class field theory for the noncommutative case. Part I concentrates on the construction of all the irreducible representations of a multiplicative group B* of a quaternion algebra B over a local field k with residue field of characteristic 2. These results are of considerable significance in the light of the connections found by Jacquet-Langlands between representations of GL2 (k) and B* and although they concern GL2 they also provide a model for GLn. Part II deals with n 2 unifying results previously obtained by Weil, Jacquet-Langlands, Bernstein-Zelevinskii, Deligne-Kazdan and others. More than a mere comparison of these results, it reveals an intrinsic correspondence found with the aid of the base restriction process of algebraic groups and the substitution of division of algebras for Cartan subalgebras. The approach is purely local and therefore may be applied also to other types of reductive groups, in particular Sp2l as well as to archimedean cases. This book will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students working in algebraic number theory and automorphic forms.

Reproductive Biology and Plant Breeding: Biologie de la Reproduction et Amélioration des Plantes

This volume has been produced for the XI 11th EUCARPIA Congress. EUCARPIA (the European Association for Plant breeding) currently has 1.200 members, including scientists and staff of both publ ic and private organizations. Its aim is to promote scientific and technical research and cooperation In the field of plant breeding, and thereby to contribute to the development of agriculture. Every three years, EUCARPIA organizes a scientific congress. In 1992, the Xilith EUCARPIA Congress will be held In ANGERS (Fran­ ce) and the theme Is "Reproductive biology and plant breeding". Reproduction of plant material Is central to selection. The geneti­ cist, the plant breeder and the seed grower all use sexual and ve­ getative reproduction during the various stages of plant breeding and creation of variety. The possibility of unlimited interspecific reproduction, the use of gametogenesis dysfunction, the creation of auto and allogamy, and the cloning of the best genotypes are the challenges before the plant breeder. To understand how the reproductive system conditions the genetic structure of a population, and to Investigate the relation­ ships between the reproductive mode and the organization of varia­ bility Is a central key to genetic progress. The articles presented In this book review the current state of knowledge of reproductive biology, and Its impact on variety crea­ tion.

Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte: Residues of Pesticides and Other Foreign Chemicals in Foods and Feeds / Rückstände von Pesticiden und Anderen Fremdstoffen in Nahrungs- und Futtermitteln (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology #2)

Residues of pesticides and other "foreign" chemicals in foodstuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere; they are essential to food production and manufacture, yet without surveillance and intelligent control some of those that persist could at times conceivably endanger the public health. The object of "Residue Reviews" is to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of residues of these chemicals in foods, in feeds, and in transformed food products. These reviews are either general or specific, but properly they may lie in the domains of analytical chemistry and its methodology, biochemistry, human and animal medicine, legislation, pharmacology, physiology, regulation, and toxicology; certain affairs in the realm of food technology that are concerned specifically with pesticide and other food-additive problems are also appropriate subject matter. The justification for the preparation of any review for this book­ series is that it deals with some aspect of the many real problems arising from the presence of residues of foreign chemicals in foodstuffs. The scope of "Residue Reviews" is international. It encompasses those matters, in any country, which are involved in allowing pesticide and other plant-protecting chemicals to be used safely in producing, storing, and shipping crops. Added plant or animal pest-control chemicals or their metabolites that may persist into meat and other edible animal products (milk and milk products, eggs, etc.

Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte: Residues of Pesticides and other Foreign Chemicals in Foods and Feeds / Rückstände von Pesticiden und Anderen Fremdstoffen in Nahrungs- und Futtermitteln (Residue Reviews/rückstandsberichte Ser. #8)

That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in foodstuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the contrary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food­ additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent control some of those that persist in our foodstuffs could at times conceivably endanger the public health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemicals is a dynamic challenge, for established ones are continually being displaced by newly developed ones more acceptable to food technologists, pharma­ cologists, toxicologists, and changing pest-control requirements in progressive food-producing economies. These matters are also of genuine concern to increasing numbers of governmental agencies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemicals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemicals persisting into our food­ stuffs are not simple matters, and they incorporate the considered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of complex biological, chemical, food technological, medical, pharmacological, and toxicological disciplines.