Author: Gilles Royer
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: monographs, ams, smf, amp, logarithmic, texts, sobolev, initiation, inequalities
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 2007-10-19
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0821844016
ISBN-13: 9780821844014

This book provides an introduction to logarithmic Sobolev inequalities with some important applications to mathematical statistical physics. Royer begins by gathering and reviewing the necessary background material on selfadjoint operators, semigroups, Kolmogorov diffusion processes, solutions of stochastic differential equations, and certain other related topics. There then is a chapter on log Sobolev inequalities with an application to a strong ergodicity theorem for Kolmogorov diffusion processes. The remaining two chapters consider the general setting for Gibbs measures including existence

Authors:Stephen R. Lankton, Jeffrey Zeig,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: monographs, ericksonian, therapy, contexts, difficult
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0876307497
ISBN-13: 9780876307496

This tenth volume in the Ericksonian Monographs series is comprised of 11 papers from internationally recognized experts on Ericksonian psychotherapy.

Authors:Shun-Ichi Amari, Hiroshi Nagaoka,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematical, monographs, tanslations, translations, information, geometry, methods
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2007-04-13
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0821843028
ISBN-13: 9780821843024

Information geometry provides the mathematical sciences with a new framework of analysis. It has emerged from the investigation of the natural differential geometric structure on manifolds of probability distributions, which consists of a Riemannian metric defined by the Fisher information and a one-parameter family of affine connections called the $alpha$-connections. The duality between the $alpha$-connection and the $(-alpha)$-connection together with the metric play an essential role in this geometry. This kind of duality, having emerged from manifolds of probability distributions, is ubiq

Author: Linda R. Cote Marc H. Bornstein
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: monographs, parenting, series, development, measurement, parent, child, relationships, acculturation
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-02-07
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0805858725
ISBN-13: 9780805858723

Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars who work to define and develop assessments of acculturation, and who study the impact of acculturation on families. The goals of the conference were to evaluate both the status of acculturation as a scientific construct and the roles of acculturation in parenting and human development. The goal of this

Author: International Agency for Research on Cancer
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: iarc, monographs, risks, carcinogenic, evaluation, human, humans, papillomavirus
Number of Pages: 678
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9283212908
ISBN-13: 9789283212904

This ninetieth volume of the IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans considers human papillomaviruses (HPVs), which were evaluated by a previous Working Group (IARC, 1995). The monograph in the present volume incorporates new data that have become available during the past decade. HPVs represent the most common infectious agents that are transmitted sexually throughout the world; the major risk factors are behaviours associated with sexual activity. Although most infections are asymptomatic and are cleared within a period of 2 years, genital HPV infection can lead

Author: International Agency for Research on Cancer
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: monographs, iarc, tobacco, risks, humans, carcinogenic, evaluation, smokeless, specific, nitrosamines
Number of Pages: 635
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9283212894
ISBN-13: 9789283212898

This eighty-ninth volume of the IARC Monographs is the third and last of a series on tobacco-related agents. Volume 83 reported on the carcinogenicity of tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking (second-hand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke) (IARC, 2004a). Volume 85 summarized the evidence on the carcinogenic risk of chewing betel quid with and without tobacco (IARC, 2004b). That volume explored the variety of products chewed in South Asia and other parts of the word that contain areca nut in combination with other ingredients, often including tobacco. In this eighty-ninth volume, the carcino

Author: Carlos Moreno
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematical, surveys, monographs, functions, theory, analytic, number, advanced
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2007-08-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0821842668
ISBN-13: 9780821842669

Since the pioneering work of Euler, Dirichlet, and Riemann, the analytic properties of L-functions have been used to study the distribution of prime numbers. With the advent of the Langlands Program, L-functions have assumed a greater role in the study of the interplay between Diophantine questions about primes and representation theoretic properties of Galois representations. This book provides a complete introduction to the most significant class of L-functions: the Artin-Hecke L-functions associated to finite-dimensional representations of Weil groups and to automorphic L-functions of princ