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This work is a survey of algorithms for computing special examples in the study of Grothendieck groups, quadratic forms and derived categories of finite-dimensional algebras. Open questions including Lie algebras, Bruhat orders and Coxeter groups are investigated with the aid of computer algebras.

An overview of coupled line fundamentals, this text explains their applications in designing microwave and millimetre-wave components used in today's personal communication, audio/visual, microwave, radar, satellite communications, and other systems. The text provides readers with an understanding of stripline, microstrip, monolithic and coplanar technologies. Emphasizing design, analysis and modern fabrication techniques and practices, it provides knowledge and guidance in helping them develop compact and low-cost design solutions and components, such as loose and tight couplers, filters, hybrids, transformers and baluns.

This text brings together a range of information on who Australian students are, what they want from school, how well they think their schools work, what subjects they study, how well they succeed and where they end up.

Describes RAND research that supported the 1998 Defense Science Board (DSB) Summer Study on Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century: Integrating Capabilities, Underwriting Joint Vision 2010.

Based on lectures given by leading researchers in the field at the Workshop on Representations of Algebras and Related Topics, Trondheim, Norway, this title features a collection of survey papers containing old and new developments in the representation theory of finite dimensional algebras and related topics.

This is a compilation of the current research findings in the field of oxidative stress in skeletal muscle. It is designed for professionals who are interested in muscle function, physiology, pathophysiology and well-being, as well as researchers in the field of muscle physiology.

Symbolic rewriting techniques are methods for deriving consequences from systems of equations, and are of great use when investigating the structure of the solutions. Such techniques appear in many important areas of research within computer algebra: the Knuth-Bendix completion for groups, monoids and general term-rewriting systems; the Buchberger algorithm for Grobner bases; the Ritt-Wu characteristic set method for ordinary differential equations; and the Riquier-Janet method for partial differential equations. This volume contains invited and contributed papers to the "Symbolic Rewriting Techniques" workshop held at the Centro Stefano Franscini in Ascona, Switzerland from April 30th to May 4th, 1995. The workshop brought together 40 reseachers from various areas of rewriting techniques, the main goal being the investigation of common threads and methods. Following the workshops, each contribution was formally refereed and 14 papers were selected for publication.

Variational calculus, optimal control and applications was the topic of the 12th Baltic Sea conference. This volume contains contributions addressing four problem complexes mostly motivated by practical problems.

Here's a broad, integrated view of existing communications technologies available world-wide -- including the Internet and Web, digital mobile telephony, ISDN, SMDS, frame relay, and ATM -- from a practical business perspective. Covering both private and public networks, the book offers a basic explanation of a wide range of technologies and describes their underlying principles and features, as well as the factors that differentiate them. The guide also showcases typical applications, exposes inherent limitations, explains pricing and methods of comparison, and discusses security pitfalls and protection systems.

This text seeks to strike a balance between considering public health approaches to tobacco control and population-based screening, advances in clinical evaluation of chemoprevention approaches, and the biology of lung carcinogenesis.

This volume presents refereed papers covering a variety of topics in the growing field of multivariate approximation and slines.

What happens between student and teacher when computers move into the classroom? Drawing from over 20,000 episodes in the longitudinal database of Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow, this book gives case studies and teacher testimonies, addressing teachers' perennial concerns: teacher learning and teacher beliefs about instructional change; redefining student and teacher roles; maintaining student engagement; reducing teacher isolation; managing the technology-rich classroom; and support for instructional change from school principals, school districts, technology trainers and colleagues.

Presenting a description of automated HF communications, this work also considers the many phenomena which affect HF radio, and offers insight into new and future HF techniques. It includes information on automatic link establishment (ALE) technology, advanced variable-transmission rate modems, wideband (1 MHz) HF communications services, and automated HF networks as an extension of the Internet.

Five artists respond through their work to technology's impact on the environment and on personal lives, acknowledging the mutations that nature, subordinated to technology, is undergoing.

This text confronts some of the major friction points between doctors and their clients, and recommends practical steps clients can take to obtain quality medical care. The emphasis is on an active approach to seeking health care.