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Neue Werkstoffe und Technologien nehmen in der Architektur und im Design eine bedeutende Rolle ein. Umweltverträgliche Materialien und Produktionsverfahren sind ebenso gefragt wie eine gut funktionierende Kreislaufwirtschaft. Daneben haben Trends wie die Digitalisierung, der 3 D-Druck sowie intelligente Systeme und Materialien einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf Materialinnovationen. Das Buch schlägt in acht Kapiteln die Brücke von Wissenschaft und industrieller Forschung hin zu Anwendungen in Architektur und Design. Es bietet in einem handlichen Format einen fundierten Überblick über die aktuellen Werkstoffinnovationen wie etwa essbare Verpackungen, flüssiges Licht oder smarte Naturmaterialien. Zugleich wird die gesellschaftliche Dimension solcher Entwicklungen in den Blick genommen.

Das Buch stellt erstmals seine Arbeit im Zusammenhang dar und veranschaulicht, wie Kupetz die Gestaltung anonymer Massenprodukte als eine gesellschaftliche Aufgabe verstanden hat, die mit der hochstmoglichen Qualitat gelost werden muss.

As a collection of ecological evaluations and key building physics data, the Details for Passive Houses is a classic in every design library and the underlying reference work for the book entitled Details for Passive Houses: Renovation. As usual, specialist engineers, architects, and the organizers of competitions can use the new edition to find reliable construction details, information on construction materials, and criteria for evidencing and specifying ecologically optimized design. All evaluations were carried out based on the international Passive-Houses standard. Overall: a well-researched reference work which, with its bilingual narrative, helps to overcome language barriers and can therefore also be used for advising international building clients.

Le projet de ce livre etait une gageure. lIs'' agissait de rendre compte du developpement des mathematiques depuis cinquante ans a un public mathematique aussi large que possi­ ble, sans viser l''exhaustivite, mais sans se bomer a un apen;u superticiel. Pour tenter de realiser cette ambition, Ie comite de lecture a fait appel a des mathematiciens actifs dans divers domaines des mathematiques. II a recru une trentaine de contributions qui forment la matiere de ce livre. En outre, il a auditionne plusieurs mathematiciens qui donnent leur point de vue personnel. Entin il a reuni quelques documents, soit statistiques, soit bibliographiques, pour completer les references donnees par les auteurs et signaler les ar­ ticles de synthese. Le resultat ne pouvait etre ni complet, ni homo gene, et nous sommes evidemment conscients de ses insuftisances. Nous y reviendrons, mais nous voulons com­ mencer par in sister sur ce qui fait l''interet et l'' importance de ce livre. D''abord, et c''est la raison d''etre de ce vaste projet, ce livre correspond a un be­ soin. Le livre precedent, Development of Mathematics 1900-1950 (Birkhauser, Bale, 1994), en depit de son caractere incomplet et de son inhomogeneite, a connu un grand succes, et s''avere d''interet durable pour ceux qui veulent explorer les matMmatiques de la premiere moitie du siecle.

The relevance of commutator methods in spectral and scattering theory has been known for a long time, and numerous interesting results have been ob­ tained by such methods. The reader may find a description and references in the books by Putnam [Pu], Reed-Simon [RS] and Baumgartel-Wollenberg [BW] for example. A new point of view emerged around 1979 with the work of E. Mourre in which the method of locally conjugate operators was introduced. His idea proved to be remarkably fruitful in establishing detailed spectral properties of N-body Hamiltonians. A problem that was considered extremely difficult be­ fore that time, the proof of the absence of a singularly continuous spectrum for such operators, was then solved in a rather straightforward manner (by E. Mourre himself for N = 3 and by P. Perry, 1. Sigal and B. Simon for general N). The Mourre estimate, which is the main input of the method, also has consequences concerning the behaviour of N-body systems at large times. A deeper study of such propagation properties allowed 1. Sigal and A. Soffer in 1985 to prove existence and completeness of wave operators for N-body systems with short range interactions without implicit conditions on the potentials (for N = 3, similar results were obtained before by means of purely time-dependent methods by V. Enss and by K. Sinha, M. Krishna and P. Muthuramalingam). Our interest in commutator methods was raised by the major achievements mentioned above.

Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. The world''s scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Botanists wentabout establishing their herbariums and paid much too little attention to the vegetation as a whole, or to the significance of useful plants for local populations. Zoologists, too, busied themselves with collecting and describing species. Anthropologists, on the other hand, tended to overlook faunal details: in their ignorance of the animal world, they wrote of tigers and deer in Africa. And finally, foresters saw neither the forest nor the trees for the timber - and even confused rainforests with monocultures of fir trees.

Volume 36 of "Progress in Drug Research" contains 5 articles and the various indexes which facilitate its use and establish the connec­ tion with the previous volumes. While all articles deal with some of the topical aspects of drug research, the contribution by Robert R. Ruffolo et al. on "Drug receptors and control of the cardiovas­ cular system: Recent advances" is indeed in its own right a mono­ graphic presentation of this important domain. The remaining four reviews provide an overview of the work in­ volved in the search for new and better medicines, with a focus on chemical, pharmacological, toxicological, biological, biochemical and molecular modeling studies. In the 31 years this series has existed, the Editor has enjoyed the help and advice of many colleagues. Readers, the authors of the in­ dividual articles, and, last but not least, the reviewers have all con­ tributed greatly to the success of PDR. Although many comments received have been favorable, it is nevertheless necessary to analyze and to reconsider the current position and the direction of such a series. So far, it has been the Editor''s aim to help spread informa­ tion on the vast domain of drug research, and to provide the reader with a tool helping him or her to keep abreast of the latest develop­ ments and trends.

his book offers a glimpse into the world of for her territorial integrity; and the country soon T exchanged the arrogance of its administrative the Mru- a world which is unknown and officers for a persistent jungle war- a war which inaccessible to us. It shows pictures which can be seen nowhere else and describes a culture which soon found international participants. The area which until the r96os bad been least affected by this has been described nowhere else. Apart from the two authors- Claus-Dieter Brauns, as photogra­ unrest was the small mountainous strip which at pher, and the writer, as anthropologist- there is no the partition of British India in r 94 7 bad been one who could have written or illustrated this handed over to Pakistan as part of the hinterland of book. And this book will be for many years, if not Chittagong. for ever, the only document of its kind about the In r963 in the southernmost part of this relatively Mru, since the culture of the Mru documented here low chain of mountains, the so-called Chittagong Hill Tracts, C. -D. Brauns came upon an ethnic - a people residing in the southeast corner of Bangladesh- is threatened with extinction. group which fascinated him.

Der Integralbegriff in seiner Ausprägung durch Henri Lebesgue ist ein grundlegendes Werkzeug in der modernen Analysis, Numerik und Stochastik. Für Lehrveranstaltungen zu diesen Gebieten der Mathematik bereiten die Autoren wesentliche Sachverhalte in kompakter Weise auf. Das Buch liefert Orientierung und Material für verschiedene Varianten zwei- oder vierstündiger Lehrveranstaltungen. In einem ergänzenden Abschnitt werden um den Begriff der Konvexität herum Verbünde zur Funktionalanalysis hergestellt.

A more accurate title for this book would be "Problems dealing with the non-intersection of paths of random walks. " These include: harmonic measure, which can be considered as a problem of nonintersection of a random walk with a fixed set; the probability that the paths of independent random walks do not intersect; and self-avoiding walks, i. e. , random walks which have no self-intersections. The prerequisite is a standard measure theoretic course in probability including martingales and Brownian motion. The first chapter develops the facts about simple random walk that will be needed. The discussion is self-contained although some previous expo­ sure to random walks would be helpful. Many of the results are standard, and I have made borrowed from a number of sources, especially the ex­ cellent book of Spitzer [65]. For the sake of simplicity I have restricted the discussion to simple random walk. Of course, many of the results hold equally well for more general walks. For example, the local central limit theorem can be proved for any random walk whose increments have mean zero and finite variance. Some of the later results, especially in Section 1. 7, have not been proved for very general classes of walks. The proofs here rely heavily on the fact that the increments of simple random walk are bounded and symmetric.