This book gives a concise introduction to the basic techniques needed for the theoretical analysis of the Maxwell Equations, and filters in an elegant way the essential parts, e.g., concerning the various function spaces needed to rigorously investigate the boundary integral equations and variational equations. The book arose from lectures taught by the authors over many years and can be helpf…
This book provides an overview of the latest advancements in the field of alien introgression in wheat. The discovery and wide application of molecular genetic techniques including molecular markers, in situ hybridization, and genomics has led to a surge in interspecific and intergeneric hybridization in recent decades. The work begins with the taxonomy of cereals, especially of those species w…
This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Professor Paul G. Spirakis on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It celebrates his significant contributions to computer science as an eminent, talented, and influential researcher and most visionary thought leader, with a great talent in inspiring and guiding young researchers. The book is a reflection of his main research activities in the f…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2015, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in September 2015. The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The selected papers cover a wide range of topics from networks to phylogenetic studies, sequence and genome analysis, comparative genomics,…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks, ALGOSENSORS 2015, held in Patras, Greece, in September 2015. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The deal with algorithms analysis and problem complexity; computer communication networks…
The interactions of cells with their surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) plays a pivotal role in driving normal cell behavior, from development to tissue differentiation and function. At the cellular level, organ homeostasis depends on a productive communication between cells and ECM, which eventually leads to the normal phenotypic repertoire that characterize each cell type in the organism.…
The subject of the book is the mathematical theory of the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM), which is a relatively new technique for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. The book is concerned with the DGM developed for elliptic and parabolic equations and its applications to the numerical simulation of compressible flow. It deals with the theoretical as well as practical …
Sasha Wang revisits the van Hiele model of geometric thinking with Sfard's discursive framework to investigate geometric thinking from a discourse perspective. The author focuses on describing and analyzing pre-service teachers' geometric discourse across different van Hiele levels. The explanatory power of Sfard's framework provides a rich description of how pre-service teachers think in the c…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2015, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in December 2015. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: properties of large graph models, dynamic processes on large grap…
This book collects the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference onon Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2015, held in Kanpur, India, in February 2015. The volume contains 26 full revised papers from 58 submissions along with 2 invited talks presented at the conference. The workshop covered a diverse range of topics on algorithms and discrete mathematics, inclu…