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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.

10 Senator a. D. Georg Wittwer From Good Design to Immaterial Goods 14 Nikolaus Kuhnert, Wolfgang Wagener The Changing Character of Work in the Metropolis 20 Edzard Reuter Contemporary Industrial Building 34 Karin Roth The New Factory 42 Regina Katerndahl, Hajo Keller, Dieter Scholz The Spirit is the Inspirator of Berlin 50 Wolf Jobst Siedler Encouraging Quality 60 Richard Rogers Industrial Buildings for Berlin Four Tasks, Four Projects 74 Project for Rotaprint in Wedding 76 78 Haseloff, Hendel 82 Rogers 88 von Seidlein Project for Heliowatt in Charlottenburg 92 94 Brandt, Bottcher 98 Kaplicky 102 Kiessler 108 Nouvel Project for Bosch in Spandau 112 114 Bayerer, Schuster, Hanson, Heidenreich 118 Ganz, Rolfes 122 Schulitz 126 Vasconi Project for a Gewerbehof in Moabit 130 132 Achatzi, Backmann, Schieber 134 Beh rendt, Stutzer 136 Dorr, Ludolf, Wimmer 138 Dudler 140 Leon, Wohlhage 142 Mallwitz 144 Muller, Reimann, Scholz-Weinland, von Senger 146 Platzer 148 Quick, Quick, Backmann 150 Wolf 152 Student Group of the TU Seminars in Berlin "Fragments of Utopianism vs. Pieces of Pettiness" 156 Rudolf Stegers Discussing the Beriinmodellindustriekultur Perspectives for Berlin Project for Herbst in Lankwitz 178 Project for a Gewerbezentrum in Kreuzberg 180 Afterword 182 N. Kuhnert, V. Martin, K. Pachter, H. Suhr Vorwort 9 Senator Wolfgang Nagel Uberlegungen zu Berlin EinfUhrung 11 Senator a. D.

During the past decade we have had to confront a series of control design prob­ lems - involving, primarily, multibody electro-mechanical systems - in which nonlinearity plays an essential role. Fortunately, the geometric theory of non­ linear control system analysis progressed substantially during the 1980s and 90s, providing crucial conceptual tools that addressed many of our needs. However, as any control systems engineer can attest, issues of modeling, computation, and implementation quickly become the dominant concerns in practice. The prob­ lems of interest to us present unique challenges because of the need to build and manipulate complex mathematical models for both the plant and controller. As a result, along with colleagues and students, we set out to develop computer algebra tools to facilitate model building, nonlinear control system design, and code generation, the latter for both numerical simulation and real time con­ an outgrowth of that continuing effort. As trol implementation. This book is a result, the unique features of the book includes an integrated treatment of nonlinear control and analytical mechanics and a set of symbolic computing software tools for modeling and control system design. By simultaneously considering both mechanics and control we achieve a fuller appreciation of the underlying geometric ideas and constructions that are common to both. Control theory has had a fruitful association with analytical mechanics from its birth in the late 19th century.

"…the text is user friendly to the topics it considers and should be very accessible…Instructors and students of statistical measure theoretic courses will appreciate the numerous informative exercises; helpful hints or solution outlines are given with many of the problems. All in all, the text should make a useful reference for professionals and students."—The Journal of the American Statistical Association

Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent research competence ΓÇô a fact that also companies, institutions and politicians have come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however, is a stronger public platform for design to confidently reflect upon this process and to establish and communicate the specific innovative and experimental dimension of design research. For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International Research in Design, has developed the New Experimental Research in Design / NERD format. The edited conference contributions of twelve young researchers from all over the world provide an impressive and diverse and insightful range of intelligent and inspiring approaches in design research, giving rise to further debate and action in the rapidly evolving field.

In gut 4 Jahrzehnten realisierte die Architektin Elsa Prochazka recht unterschiedlich große Volumina: vom Möbeldesign über Architektur bis hin zu städtebaulichen Projekten. Gäbe es eine Wiener Schule des gehobenen zeitgenössischen Interieurs, Elsa Prochazka wäre eine prototypische Vertreterin: "Ihre Interieurs forcieren geradezu das Taktile, verlangen die körperliche Beteiligung als Agens der geistigen." (Otto Kapfinger). Dieses Zitat könnte gleichermaßen für ihre Bauten stehen. Prochazka entwickelte und vermittelt ihre konzeptionelle Haltung auch im Rahmen ihrer Professuren und ihrer internationalen Vortragstätigkeit. Das Buch schließt eine Lücke in der Dokumentation prägender Wiener Architektinnen.

Aufgrund von engen Zeitvorgaben und stark vernetzten Ablaufen im Planungs- und Bauprozess ist die Terminplanung eine wichtige Voraussetzung fur die erfolgreiche Projektdurchfuhrung. Architekten sind in der Pflicht, alle Beteiligten zielorientiert zu steuern und deren Leistungen zum richtigen Zeitpunkt abzurufen. Dabei ist eine konsequente und an die Arbeitsablaufe angepasste Planung der Termine ein notwendiges Arbeitsinstrument, um in der taglichen Arbeit die Komplexitat eines Bauprojektes steuern und uberwachen zu konnen.Themen: Organisation des Planungs- und Bauablauf Grundlagen der Terminplanung Zweckorientierte Darstellungsarten und -tiefen Aufstellen eines Terminplans Nutzung von Terminplanen in der Praxis

Wie hat sich die Berliner Stadtlandschaft im Laufe der Verwandlung von einer geteilten Stadt zur Kreativmetropole verändert? Trotz des gewaltigen Erbes und großer Entwicklungsprojekte ruft Berlin immer noch Bilder von Lücken und innerstädtischer Brachen hervor. Das Buch macht die leicht veränderlichen und komplexen politischen Zusammenhänge dieser unbestimmten Orte deutlich. Fotografien von Orten aus den Jahren 2001 und 2016 zeigen, wie aus Niemandsland neue Wohnbauten und wie aus Untergrundtreffpunkten Geschäftszentren geworden sind. Sie zeigen aber auch verbliebene Nischen unerwarteter Wildnis und Freiheit. Die begleitenden Texte renommierter Urbanisten untersuchen diese wichtigen und oft stillen Reserven und fordern dazu auf unseren Einsatz für die Zukunft der Stadt zu hinterfragen.

Die Ursachen fur die haufigsten Fehlschlage bei der Mauerwerkssanierung liegen erfahrungsgema in fehlender Diagnostik, unzureichender Planung, mangelhafter Ausfuhrung, objektspezifisch falscher Materialwahl und ungeeigneter Baustoffqualitat. Die jahrlich vermeidbaren Bauschadenskosten betragen mehrere Millionen Euro.Die Autoren behandeln das komplexe Fachgebiet der Mauerwerksdurchfeuchtung und die effiziente Durchfuhrung einer erfolgreichen Bauwerksanierung - von den Schadensursachen bis hin zur Abnahme der Bauleistungen. Die 3. Auflage berucksichtigt die Neufassung der normativen Grundlage in Osterreich sowie aktuelle Analyse- und Verfahrensmethoden. Auf ihrer Basis wird auch die Ausbildung von Details prazise dargestellt. Das Buch ist ein Leitfaden zur erfolgreichen Bauwerksanierung.