Photosynthesis, Energy from the Sun - Volume I

Photosynthesis, Energy from the Sun - Volume I

The Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis is a record of the most recent advances and emerging themes in the discipline. This volume contains over 350 contributions from some 800 participants attending the meeting in Glasgow, UK in July 2007. These range from summary overview presentations from plenary speakers to expanded content of posters presented by students and their supervisors featuring the most recent achievements in photosynthesis research. In the words of Professor Eva-Mari Aro, President of the international Society of Photosynthesis Research 2004-7, Having been taken for granted for centuries, research in photosynthesis has now become a matter of utmost importance for the future of planet Earth Major initiatives are underway that will use research into natural and artificial photosynthesis for sustainable energy production . . These volumes thus provide a glimpse of the future, from the molecule to the biosphere

Photosynthesis, Energy from the Sun - Volume I

Convergence in Shareholder Law

Convergence in Shareholder Law

On the one hand, it can be argued that the increasing economic and political interdependence of countries has led to the convergence of national legal systems. On the other hand, advocates of the counterhypothesis maintain that this development is both unrealistic and unnecessary. Mathias Siems examines the company law of the UK, the USA, Germany, France, Japan and China to see how this issue affects shareholder law. The author subsequently analyses economic and political factors which may or may not lead to convergence, and assesses the extent of this development. Convergence of Shareholder Law, which was originally published in 2007, not only provides a thorough comparative legal analysis but also shows how company law interconnects with political forces and economic development and helps in evaluating whether harmonisation and shareholder protection should be enhanced.

Convergence in Shareholder Law

The Global Crash

The Global Crash

The financial crisis hit the global economy unexpectedly from August 2007 producing consequences comparable to the ones experienced in the course of the 1930s. This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary account of the events leading to the financial crisis, its institutional causes and consequences, its economic characteristics and its socio-political implications.

The Global Crash

Programming Multi-Agent Systems

Programming Multi-Agent Systems

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2007, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 as an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

Programming Multi-Agent Systems

The Attractor Mechanism

The Attractor Mechanism

This book is based upon lectures presented in June 2007 at the INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati School on Attractor Mechanism, directed by Stefano Bellucci. The symposium included such prestigious lecturers as S. Ferrara, M. Gnaydin, P. Levay, and T. Mohaupt. All lectures were given at a pedagogical, introductory level, which is reflected in the specific ‘flavor’ of this volume. The book also benefits from extensive discussions about, and related reworking of, the various contributions. In addition, this volume contains contributions originating from short presentations of recent original results and an essay on the relation between complexity science and high-energy physics by A. Zichichi. It is the fourth volume in a series of books on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black holes and the attractor mechanism.

The Attractor Mechanism

Fractals and Universal Spaces in Dimension Theory

Fractals and Universal Spaces in Dimension Theory

Historically, for metric spaces the quest for universal spaces in dimension theory spanned approximately a century of mathematical research. The history breaks naturally into two periods – the classical (separable metric) and the modern (not-necessarily separable metric). The classical theory is now well documented in several books. This monograph is the first book to unify the modern theory from 1960-2007. Like the classical theory, the modern theory fundamentally involves the unit interval. Unique features include: * The use of graphics to illustrate the fractal view of these spaces; * Lucid coverage of a range of topics including point-set topology and mapping theory, fractal geometry, and algebraic topology; * A final chapter contains surveys and provides historical context for related research that includes other imbedding theorems, graph theory, and closed imbeddings; * Each chapter contains a comment section that provides historical context with references that serve as a bridge to the literature. This monograph will be useful to topologists, to mathematicians working in fractal geometry, and to historians of mathematics. Being the first monograph to focus on the connection between generalized fractals and universal spaces in dimension theory, it will be a natural text for graduate seminars or self-study – the interested reader will find many relevant open problems which will create further research into these topics.

Fractals and Universal Spaces in Dimension Theory

Pro Excel 2007 VBA

Pro Excel 2007 VBA

Pro Excel 2007 VBA is the complete guide to creating , , applications, including coverage of new features in Excel 2007. Covering object – oriented , techniques, debugging, and error handling methodologies, this book quickly turns novice into expert as it explores COM and .NET components and the advantages of compiled code. The book also covers XML for Excel web development.,

This book is unique insomuch that author Jim DeMarco is a true expert in the field of Excel programming, and he conveys the Visual Basic for Applications story in the context of the real world. Not just another dry programming guide, Pro Excel 2007 VBA is a journey from novice to expert where the author is your traveling companion.

Pro Excel 2007 VBA