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This book presents a complete treatment of semi-abelian degenerations of abelian varieties, and their application to the construction of arithmetic compactifications of Siegel moduli space. Most results are new and have never been published before. Highlights of the book include a classification of ... More

Gut Feelings reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. Gerd Gigerenzer analyses the heuristics that people actually use to make good decisions and shows us how we can become better decision-makers ourselves. In order to make a good decision in an uncertain world, one sometimes h... More

The ever-growing requests for more bandwidth from applications running over the Internet are driving the need to upgrade access networks with high-capacity connections. This book presents fundamental passive optical network (PON) concepts, providing readers with the tools needed to understand, desig... More

A German photographer on assignment in Sri Lanka, stumbles across a beautiful American woman. Together they narrowly escape a suicide bombing by a local terrorist group. Taking a break from work, in a country that most would describe as paradise, they find that first impressions are totally misleadi... More

The high degree of heterogeneity of textile composites was found to be the primary problem in analysis and testing. A concept was developed based on a description of the local variation of the material stiffness matrix using a spline interpolation. The role of this stiffness function is to facilitat... More

The political and economic opening up of India, China, Turkey and the eastern European states have led to a change in competition on the world's markets. These countries are already considered attractive procurement markets, especially by European companies. However, global sourcing can mean hidden ... More

Gerd Korman's memoir plumbs the depths of twentieth-century history--from his family's deportation from Hamburg during the Nazi era, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family's reunited life in New York City.Gerd Korman's memoir plumbs the depths of twentieth-century h... More