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In Krisenzeiten: Quo vadis, Architektur? Angetrieben vom Wunsch, angesichts von Krisen bessere Welten zu erschaffen, versuchen Architekt: innen, Gesellschaft, Städte und Wohnformen neu zu denken, die Architektur und ihre Materialität zu erneuern - und prägen damit eine neue Ästhetik. Denn Krisen eröffnen als "Kippmomente" neue Perspektiven: Anhand historischer wie zeitgenössischer Projekte untersucht Susanne Stacher unterschiedliche Strategien in der Architektur. Ansätze aus Wissenschaft und Philosophie (u. a. Pierre-Henri Castel, Hartmut Rosa) ermöglichen es, Vorstellungen von Fortschritt, Wachstum, Natur, Gesellschaft zu hinterfragen, die in den vorgestellten Architekturprojekten sichtbar werden. Das Buch spannt einen weiten historischen Bogen und ist ein Plädoyer, über die Rolle von Architektur und Städtebau in Zeiten ökologischer Krisen nachzudenken. Eine historische und philosophische Betrachtung von Architektur in Krisenzeiten Vom Archaismus über das Streben nach Entschleunigung, Erschaffung durch Zerstörung bis zur Wiederverzauberung der Welt Projekte/Konzepte von Hans Hollein, Ebenezer Howard, Bjarke Ingels, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Paul Otlet, Bernard Rudofsky u. a.

Although he was one of the most important figures of the Modern Movement in emigration Karol Schayer is little known outside Lebanon. Using a wealth of previously unpublished original documents and illustrations this monograph reconstructs Schayer s early career in Poland (1927 39), his years as an emigre in Turkey and Palestine (1939 46), and then his very successful and important creative period in architecture and furniture design in Lebanon (1946 70) with his successive partners Fritz Gotthelf, Bahij Makdisi and Wassek Adib. Thus the lifework of this modernist architect becomes understandable for the first time, and is shown to be clearly on a par with analogous achievements of the period around the world. This comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph is the result of many years of tireless research by George Arbid, Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut.

Diese Textsammlung vereint Schlusseltexte zu den wesentlichen designtheoretischen Positionen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie fuhrt in asthetische Fragestellungen zu Aspekten der materiellen Erscheinungsweise von Gegenstanden ein. Die Beitrage u.a. von Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, Theodor W. Adorno und Frank Lloyd Wright beschaftigen sich mit dem Verhaltnis von Handwerk und Industrie, den Debatten um Ornament und Stil sowie mit dem Funktionalismus und seinen Kritikern."

1 The Beginning: Family, Gymnasium, Universities.- 2 Back to Petrograd.- 3 In Germany.- 4 The Years 1926-1930.- 5 In America.- 6 Prewar Years.- 7 Years of War.- 8 Years 1945-1952.- 9 A Mosaic of Reminiscences.- Frenkel's Books.

1 Grundlagen.- 1.1 Allgemeine Grundlagen.- 1.1.1 Ziele und Aufgaben.- 1.1.2 Methoden.- 1.1.3 Geschichte und Einordnung.- 1.1.3.1 Geschichte der Bauwerksvermessung.- 1.1.3.2 Geschichte des Vermessungswesens.- 1.1.3.3 Geschichte der Architekturphotogrammetrie.- 1.1.4 Rechtliche Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen.- 1.1.4.1 Internationale Vereinbarungen und Organisationen.- 1.1.4.2 Baugesetzbuch, Denkmalpflegegesetze, Vermessungsgesetze.- 1.2 Messgrößen und Maßeinheiten.- 1.2.1 Strecken.- 1.2.2 Winkel.- 1.3 Bezugssysteme und Koordinaten.- 1.3.1 Bezugsflächen.- 1.3.2 Koordinaten.- 1.3.3 Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.1 Polarkoordinaten.- 1.3.3.2 Lokale Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.3 Regionale Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.4 Globale Koordinatensysteme.- 1.3.3.5 Geographische Koordinaten.- 1.3.3.6 Geozentrische Koordinaten.- 1.3.4 Koordinatentransformationen.- 1.3.4.1 Translation (2D).- 1.3.4.2 Maßstabslose Transformation (2D).- 1.3.4.3 Ähnlichkeitstransformation (2D).- 1.3.4.4 Vereinfachte Ähnlichkeitstransformation mit 2 Passpunkten (2D).- 1.3.4.5 Affintransformation (2D).- 1.3.4.6 Weitere ebene Koordinatentransformationen.- 1.3.4.7 Räumliche Koordinatentransformation (3D).- 1.3.5 Festpunktfelder.- 1.3.5.1 Netz trigonometrischer Punkte zur Lagedefinition.- 1.3.5.2 Höhennetz.- 1.3.6 Vermessungsnetze für die Bauwerksvermessung.- 1.3.6.1 Netzdesign.- 1.3.6.2 Vermarkung.- 1.3.6.3 Design und Fertigung von Punktsignalisierungen.- 1.3.6.4 Auswahl natürlicher Passpunkte.- 1.3.6.5 Schnurnetz zur temporären Vermarkung.- 1.3.6.6 Punktübersichten und Einmessskizzen.- 1.4 Fehlerlehre und Statistik.- 1.4.1 Fehlerarten und ihre Wirkung.- 1.4.1.1 Zufällige Fehler.- 1.4.1.2 Systematische Fehler.- 1.4.1.3 Grobe Fehler.- 1.4.2 Fehlerfortpflanzung und Ausgleichsrechnung.- 1.4.3 Rechenschärfe und Rundung.- 1.4.4 Toleranzen im Bauwesen.- 2 Dokumentation von Gebäuden und Ensembles.- 2.1 Amtliche Dokumentation.- 2.1.1 Katasterunterlagen.- 2.1.2 Amtliche Karten.- 2.1.3 Lageplan.- 2.1.4 Geoinformationssysteme (GIS).- 2.2 Pläne.- 2.2.1 Grundriss.- 2.2.2 Schnitt.- 2.2.3 Ansicht.- 2.2.4 Detaildarstellungen.- 2.2.5 Maßstäbe und Detaillierungsgrad.- 2.2.6 Materialien und Aufbewahrung.- 2.3 3D-Beschreibungen.- 2.3.1 CAD-Modell.- 2.3.2 Animation.- 2.3.3 Virtual Reality.- 2.3.4 Augmented Reality.- 2.4 Fotografie.- 2.4.1 Analoge Fotografie.- 2.4.1.1 Fotografisches Material.- 2.4.1.2 Kameras.- 2.4.1.3 Objektive.- 2.4.1.4 Licht.- 2.4.1.5 Belichtung.- 2.4.1.6 Archivierungen von Fotomaterialien.- 2.4.2 Digitale Bilder.- 2.4.2.1 Flächensensoren.- 2.4.2.2 Zeilenkameras.- 2.4.2.3 Spezialkameras.- 2.4.3 Scannen analoger Fotovorlagen.- 2.4.4 Digitale Bildverarbeitung.- 2.5 Textliche und hybride Beschreibungen.- 2.5.1 Raumbuch.- 2.5.2 Hypertext Dokumente.- 2.5.3 Informationssystem.- 2.6 Archivierung digitaler Daten.- 2.6.1 Datenträger.- 2.6.2 Datenformate.- 2.6.2.1 Texte.- 2.6.2.2 Datenbanken.- 2.6.2.3 Vektordaten.- 2.6.2.4 Rasterdaten.- 2.6.2.5 Hypermedia.- 3 Erfassung von Messelementen.- 3.1 Messprinzipien.- 3.1.1 Vom-Großen-ins-Kleine.- 3.1.2 Überbestimmungen.- 3.1.3 Vermeidung von systematischen Fehlern.- 3.2 Geräte und Instrumente.- 3.2.1 Bauteile, Kleingeräte und Zubehör.- 3.2.1.1 Lote und Libellen.- 3.2.1.2 Fernrohr.- 3.2.1.3 Stative.- 3.2.1.4 Fluchtstab.- 3.2.1.5 Nivellierlatten und Kleingerät.- 3.2.1.6 Aufstellen eines Instruments.- 3.2.2 Winkelmessung.- 3.2.2.1 Bestimmung rechter Winkel.- 3.2.2.2 Theodolit.- 3.2.2.3 Satzmessung.- 3.2.2.4 Berechnung von Richtungswinkeln aus Koordinaten.- 3.2.3 Streckenmessung.- 3.2.3.1 Streckenmessung mit dem Messband.- 3.2.3.2 Optische Streckenmessung.- 3.2.3.3 Elektro-optische Entfernungsmessung (EDM).- 3.2.4 Höhenmessung.- 3.2.4.1 Einfache Werkzeuge.- 3.2.4.2 Nivellement.- 3.2.4.3 Rotationslaser.- 3.3 Beschaffung einer Vermessungsausrüstung.- 4 Messverfahren.- 4.1 Schrittskizze.- 4.2 Handaufmaß.- 4.3 Punktbestimmung ohne Theodolit.- 4.3.1 Bogenschlag.- 4.3.2 Einbindeverfahren.- 4.3.3 Orthogonalverfahren.- 4.3.4

Intermediate and deep earthquakes in Spain.- Spanish national strong motion network. Recording of the Huelva earthquake of 20 December, 1989.- Regional focal mechanisms for earthquakes in the Aegean area.- Rates of crustal deformation in the North Aegean trough-North Anatolian fault deduced from seismicity.- Regional stresses along the Eurasia-Africa plate boundary derived from focal mechanisms of large earthquakes.- Focal mechanisms of intraplate earthquakes in Bolivia, South America.- Partial breaking of a mature seismic gap: The 1987 earthquakes in New Britain.- Size of earthquakes in Southern Mexico from indirect methods.- Numerical simulation of the earthquake generation process.- Intermagnitude relationships and asperity statistics.- Complete synthetic seismograms for high-frequency multimode SH-waves.- Body-wave dispersion: Measurement and interpretation.

Opioids are not always the most suitable analgesic therapy, despite being effective in the treatment of a wide variety of painful conditions. Many non-opioid analgesics are frequently preferable for the treatment of mild or moderate pain, because of their lower incidence of side-effects, or beacause they have a more relevant site of action.

Approximate Two Layer (Inviscid/Viscous) Methods to Model Aerothermodynamic Environments.- Second-Order Effects in Hypersonic Boundary Layers.- Unstructured-Grid Algorithms for High-Speed CFD Analysis.- Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Hypersonic Viscous Flows.- Numerical Simulation of Entry Flow over Blunt Swept-Wing Planes.- Viscous Nonequilibrium Flow Calculations.- The Finite Pointset Method for Hypersonic Flows in the Rarefied Gas Regime.- Computation of Flowfields for Hypersonic Flight at High Altitudes.

Turbulence Modeling for Hypersonic Flows.- Advanced Topics in Turbulence Theory.- Different Levels of Air Dissociation Chemistry and Its Coupling with Flow Models.- Modeling of Hypersonic Reacting Flows.- Modeling of Hypersonic Non Equilibrium Flows.- Wall Catalytic Recombination and Boundary Conditions in Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows-With Applications.- Physical Aspects of Hypersonic Flow: Fluid Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena.- Permissions.

Turbulence Modeling for Hypersonic Flows.- Advanced Topics in Turbulence Theory.- Different Levels of Air Dissociation Chemistry and Its Coupling with Flow Models.- Modeling of Hypersonic Reacting Flows.- Modeling of Hypersonic Non Equilibrium Flows.- Wall Catalytic Recombination and Boundary Conditions in Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows-With Applications.- Physical Aspects of Hypersonic Flow: Fluid Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena.- Permissions.

"Transparency" is a key text and required reading for all students of modern architecture. As members of the 1950s group known as the "Texas Rangers", Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky tested new methods for teaching and developing architectural design skills. Through their exploration of the common basis of modern art and architecture they identified and elaborated on the concept of transparency as a fundamental principle of spatial organisation, beyond the curtain wall. Their essay titled Transparency, first published in 1964, provided the theoretical and didactical fundament, exemplified and illustrated by 2 of Le Corbusier s buildings.

The Cray Research MPP Fortran Programming Model.- Resource Optimisation via Structured Parallel Programming.- SYNAPS/3 - An Extension of C for Scientific Computations.- The Pyramid Programming System.- Intelligent Algorithm Decomposition for Parallelism with Alfer.- Symbolic Array Data Flow Analysis and Pattern Recognition in Numerical Codes.- A GUI for Parallel Code Generation.- Formal Techniques Based on Nets, Object Orientation and Reusability for Rapid Prototyping of Complex Systems.- Adaptor - A Transformation Tool for HPF Programs.- A Parallel Framework for Unstructured Grid Solvers.- A Study of Software Development for High Performance Computing.- Parallel Computational Frames: An Approach to Parallel Application Development based on Message Passing Systems.- A Knowledge-Based Scientific Parallel Programming Environment.- Parallel Distributed Algorithm Design Through Specification Transformation: The Asynchronous Vision System.- Steps Towards Reusability and Portability in Parallel Programming.- An Environment for Portable Distributed Memory Parallel Programming.- Reuse, Portability and Parallel Libraries.- Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems: The Cowichan Problems.- Experimentally Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems.- Experiences with Parallel Programming Tools.- The MPI Message Passing Interface Standard.- An Efficient Implementation of MPI.- Post: A New Postal Delivery Model.- Asynchronous Backtrackable Communications in the SLOOP Object-Oriented Language.- A Parallel I/O System for High-Performance Distributed Computing.- Language and Compiler Support for Parallel I/O.- Locality in Scheduling Models of Parallel Computation.- A Load Balancing Algorithm for Massively Parallel Systems.- Static Performance Prediction in PCASE: A Programming Environment for Parallel Supercomputers.- A Performance Tool for High-Level Parallel Programming Languages.- Implementation of a Scalable Trace Analysis Tool.- The Design of a Tool for Parallel Program Performance Analysis and Tuning.- The MPP Apprentice Performance Tool: Delivering the Performance of the Cray T3D.- Optimized Record-Replay Mechanism for RPC-based Parallel Programming.- Abstract Debugging of Distributed Applications.- Design of a Parallel Object-Oriented Linear Algebra Library.- A Library for Coarse Grain Macro-Pipelining in Distributed Memory Architectures.- An Improved Massively Parallel Implementation of Colored Petri-Net Specifications.- A Tool for Parallel System Configuration and Program Mapping based on Genetic Algorithms.- Emulating a Paragon XP/S on a Network of Workstations.- Evaluating VLIW-in-the-large.- Implementing a N-Mixed Memory Model on a Distributed Memory System.- Working Group Report: Reducing the Complexity of Parallel Software Development.- Working Group Report: Usability of Parallel Programming System.- Working Group Report: Skeletons/Templates.

Der 1964 publizierte Aufsatz Transparenz von Colin Rowe und Robert Slutzky gehört zu den Grundlagentexten der Architektur-Ausbildung unserer Zeit. Rowe und Slutzky bildeten in den fünfziger Jahren zusammen mit John Hejduk, Werner Seligmann und Bernhard Hoesli die Architektengruppe der «Texas Rangers» der University of Texas in Austin. Im Rahmen ihrer Lehrtätigkeit versuchten sie eine neue Methode für den architektonischen Entwurf zu entwickeln. Der Text entwickelt gegen die bloße Durchsichtigkeit einer Curtain Wall die übertragene Bedeutung von Transparenz als einer räumlichen Ordnung. Die deutsche Ausgabe von Transparenz erschien erstmals 1968 als kritische Edition des Instituts für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta) der ETH Zürich mit einem Kommentar von Bernhard Hoesli. Die vierte Auflage ist durch eine neue Einführung von Werner Oechslin erweitert, in der er vor allem Bernhard Hoeslis Bedeutung für die Entstehung und Verbreitung von Transparenz kritisch würdigt.

1 Introductory Material.- 2 The Direct and Indirect B.I.E.M. for Bilateral Problems.- 3 Boundary Integral Formulations for Some Special Elastostatic B.V.Ps.- 4 On the Numerical Implementation of Boundary Element Equations.- 5 Extension to Dynamic Problems.- 6 Dynamic Interaction Problems.- 7 B.I. Formulations for the Signorini-Fichera Inequality Problem.- 8 Mathematical Study of the B.I. Formulations of the Signorini-Fichera B.V.P..- 9 Boundary Integral Formulation of the Frictional Unilateral Contact B.V.P..- 10 Boundary Integral Formulations for the Monotone Multivalued Boundary Conditions.- 11 Elastodynamic Unilateral Problems. A B.I.E. Approach.- 12 Nonconvex Unilateral Contact Problems.- 13 Miscellanea.- References.

1 Technische Regelwerke.- 1.1 Literatur.- 2 Beschreibung der PE-HD-Werkstoffe und Herstellung der Dichtungsbahnen.- 2.1 Werkstoff.- 2.2 Morphologie.- 2.3 Herstellung.- 2.4 Literatur.- 3 Prüfung der Eigenschaften von PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen.- 3.1 Übersicht.- 3.2 Prüfverfahren.- 3.2.1 Äußere Beschaffenheit, Homogenität, Geradheit und Planlage.- 3.2.2 Dicke.- 3.2.3 Rußgehalt und Rußverteilung.- 3.2.4 Schmelzindex und Dichte.- 3.2.5 Maßänderung.- 3.2.6 Permeation.- 3.2.7 Thermoanalytische Messungen und Oxidationsstabilität.- 3.2.8 Zugversuch.- 3.2.9 Wölbversuch.- 3.2.10 Relaxationsversuch.- 3.2.11 Beständigkeit gegen Chemikalien.- 3.2.12 Beständigkeit gegen thermisch-oxidativen Abbau.- 3.2.13 Spannungsrissprüfung: Zeitstand-Rohrinnendruckversuch und NCTL-Test.- 3.2.14 Witterungsbeständigkeit.- 3.2.15 Beständigkeit gegen biologische Einwirkungen.- 3.2.16 Zeitstand-Zugversuch.- 3.2.17 Reibungseigenschaften.- 3.2.18 Zeitstand-Scherversuch.- 3.3 Weitere Prüfungen.- 3.4 Literatur.- 4 Verformungsverhalten.- 4.1 Spannungsrelaxation und Kriechen.- 4.2 Phänomenologisches Werkstoffmodell.- 4.3 Verformungsverhalten im Zug- und Wölbversuch.- 4.4 Bestimmung der Verformung aus der Konturlinie.- 4.5 Literatur.- 5 Langzeitverhalten.- 5.1 Alterung.- 5.2 Oxidativer Abbau.- 5.2.1 Autoxidation unstabilisierter Polyolefine.- 5.2.2 Chemische Stabilisierung.- 5.2.3 Strukturelle Stabilisierung.- 5.3 Spannungsrissbildung.- 5.3.1 Beschreibung der Risserscheinungen und Begriffe.- 5.3.2 Prüfverfahren für Spannungsrissbeständigkeit.- 5.3.3 Exkurs in die Bruchmechanik.- 5.3.4 Modelle zur Beschreibung der Spannungsrissbildung.- 5.4 Funktionsdauer von PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen.- 5.5 Literatur.- 6 PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen mit strukturierter Oberfläche.- 6.1 Art und Herstellung von Oberflächenstrukturen.- 6.2 Prüfungen an strukturierten Dichtungsbahnen.- 6.3 Eigenschaften strukturierter Dichtungsbahnen, Gleitsicherheit von Abdichtungssystemen.- 6.4 Literatur.- 7 Stofftransport.- 7.1 Vorbemerkung.- 7.2 Stofftransport in der Kunststoffdichtungsbahn.- 7.3 Stofftransport in Böden (Auflager der Dichtungsbahn).- 7.4 Stofftransport in der Kombinationsdichtung (Dichtungsbahn und Erdstoff).- 7.5 Auswirkungen von Fehlstellen in der Dichtungsbahn.- 7.6 Literatur.- 8 Anforderungen an Schutzschichten.- 8.1 Funktion von Schutzschichten.- 8.2 Arten von Schutzschichten.- 8.2.1 Überblick.- 8.2.2 Mineralische Schutzschichten.- 8.2.3 Schutzschichten aus Geokunststoffen.- 8.3 Dimensionierung und Prüfung von Schutzschichten.- 8.3.1 Eindellungen in der Dichtungsbahn.- 8.3.2 Schutzwirksamkeitsprüfung.- 8.3.3 Prüfung zur Perforation der Dichtungsbahn.- 8.4 Literatur.- 9 Einbau der PE-HD-Dichtungsbahn.- 9.1 Einleitung: PE-HD-Dichtungsbahnen im Deponiebau.- 9.2 Verlegeplanung.- 9.3 Einbau.- 9.3.1 Exkurs: Entstehung und Auswirkung von Wellen in der Dichtungsbahn.- 9.3.2 Die Riegelbauweise.- 9.4 Qualitätssicherung.- 9.4.1 Anforderungen an Verlegefachbetriebe.- 9.4.2 Anforderungen an fremdprüfende Stellen.- 9.5 Literatur.- 10 Schweißen von Kunststoffdichtungsbahnen.- 10.1 Schweißmaschinen, -geräte und Schweißnähte.- 10.2 Prüfung von Schweißnähten.- 10.3 Prozessmodell zur Bewertung der Qualität von Heizkeil-Überlappnähten.- 10.4 Literatur.- 11 Dichtungskontrollsysteme für Kunststoffdichtungsbahnen.- 11.1 Funktion und Arten von Dichtungskontrollsystemen.- 11.2 Anforderungen an Dichtungskontrollsysteme.- 11.3 Art und Häufigkeit von Fehlstellen.- 11.4 Literatur.- Anhang 1 Anforderungstabellen aus der Zulassungsrichtlinie der BAM.- Tabelle 1: Allgemeine physikalische Anforderungen.- Tabelle 2: Mechanische Anforderungen.- Tabelle 3: Anforderungen an die Beständigkeit und das Langzeitverhalten.- Tabelle 4: Zusätzliche Anforderungen an Dichtungsbahnen mit strukturierter Oberfläche.- Tabelle 5: Art und Umfang der Prüfungen an der Formmasse und am Rußbatch im Rahmen der Eigenüberwachung der Herstellung der Dichtungsbahnen.- Tabelle 6: Art und Umfang der Prüfu

Computational Number Theory.- On the Dimension and the Number of Parameters of a Unirational Variety.- On Elements of High Order in Finite Fields.- Counting the Number of Points on Affine Diagonal Curves.- Small Values of the Carmichael Function and Cryptographic Applications.- Density Estimates Related to Gauss Periods.- Distribution of the Coefficients of Primitive Polynomials over Finite Fields.- The Distribution of the Quadratic Symbol in Function Fields and a Faster Mathematical Stream Cipher.- Rational Groups of Elliptic Curves Suitable for Cryptography.- Effective Determination of the Proportion of Split Primes in Number Fields.- Algorithms for Generating, Testing and Proving Primes: A Survey.- Elliptic Curve Factorization Using a "Partially Oblivious" Function.- The Hermite-Serret Algorithm and 122 + 332.- Applications of Algebraic Curves to Constructions of Sequences.- Cryptography.- Designated 2-Verifier Proofs and their Application to Electronic Commerce.- Divide and Conquer Attacks on Certain Irregularly Clocked Stream Ciphers.- New Results on the Randomness of Visual Cryptography Schemes.- Authentication - Myths and Misconceptions.- A Survey of Bit-security and Hard Core Functions.- On the Security of Diffie-Hellman Bits.- Polynomial Rings and Efficient Public Key Authentication II.- Security of Biased Sources for Cryptographic Keys.- Achieving Optimal Fairness from Biased Coinflips.- The Dark Side of the Hidden Number Problem: Lattice Attacks on DSA.- Distribution of Modular Sums and the Security of the Server Aided Exponentiation.- A General Construction for Fail-Stop Signatures using Authentication Codes.- Robust Additive Secret Sharing Schemes over Zm.- RSA Public Key Validation.

The present lectures are based on a course deli vered by the authors at the Uni versi ty of Bucharest, in the winter semester 1985-1986. Without aiming at completeness, the topics selected cover all the major questions concerning hyponormal operators. Our main purpose is to provide the reader with a straightforward access to an active field of research which is strongly related to the spectral and perturbation theories of Hilbert space operators, singular integral equations and scattering theory. We have in view an audience composed especially of experts in operator theory or integral equations, mathematical physicists and graduate students. The book is intended as a reference for the basic results on hyponormal operators, but has the structure of a textbook. Parts of it can also be used as a second year graduate course. As prerequisites the reader is supposed to be acquainted with the basic principles of functional analysis and operator theory as covered for instance by Reed and Simon [1]. A t several stages of preparation of the manuscript we were pleased to benefit from proper comments made by our cOlleagues: Grigore Arsene, Tiberiu Constantinescu, Raul Curto, Jan Janas, Bebe Prunaru, Florin Radulescu, Khrysztof Rudol, Konrad Schmudgen, Florian-Horia Vasilescu. We warmly thank them all. We are indebted to Professor Israel Gohberg, the editor of this series, for his constant encouragement and his valuable mathematical advice. We wish to thank Mr. Benno Zimmermann, the Mathematics Editor at Birkhauser Verlag, for cooperation and assistance during the preparation of the manuscript.

V.G. Maz'ya is author or co-author of more than 300 scientific works on various fields of functional analysis, function theory, numerical analysis, partial differential equations and their application. This collection of articles in two volumes is dedicated to him on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The first volume contains surveys that show his enormous productivity and the large variety of his work. The second volume consists of artivles by outstanding experts on various problems in functional analysis, potential theory, linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, theory of function spaces and numerical analysis.

During the week of August 31 - September 4, 1998, a conference in honour of Vladimir Maz'ya was held in Rostock as a satellite meeting of the World Congress of Mathematicians. It was sponsored by the German Research Founda- tion (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Ministry of Education and Cul- tural Affairs of the land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. During his forty year career Maz'ya contributed to so many areas of mathematical analysis that such a broad topic of the conference as "Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Applications" sounds quite nat al. The conference was organized by the Depart- ment of Mathematics of the University of Rostock and the Weierstrass Institute of Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin on the occasion of his 60th birth- day. For many years Maz'ya was connected with mathematicians from Berlin and Rostock through his work in potential theory, in differential and pseudodifferen- tial equations and in approximation theory. In 1990 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Rostock. Shortly before the meeting, one of its organizers, an outstanding mathematician and Maz'ya's dear friend, Siegfried Pr6Bdorf died. This was a heavy loss for the and for the conference in particular. During the German mathematical community meeting the rector of the University of Rostock, Prof. Wildenhain, the director of the Weierstrass Institute, Prof. Sprekels, and Prof. Maz'ya remembered S. Pr6Bdorf very warmly. The conference was attended by 109 mathematicians from 21 countries, and the program included 24 invited lectures and 63 short communications.

Well-posedness of Semilinear Heat Equations with Iterated Logarithms.- Uniform Stability of Nonlinear Thermoelastic Plates with Free Boundary Conditions.- Exponential Bases in Sobolev Spaces in Control and Observation Problems.- Sampling and Interpolation of Functions with Multi-Band Spectra and Controllability Problems.- Discretization of the Controllability Grammian in View of Exact Boundary Control: the Case of Thin Plates.- Stability of Holomorphic Semigroup Systems under Nonlinear Boundary Perturbations.- Shape Control in Hyperbolic Problems.- Second Order Optimality Conditions for Some Control Problems of Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Integral State Constraints.- Intrinsic P(2, 1) Thin Shell Models and Naghdi's Models without A Priori Assumption on the Stress Tensor.- On the Approximate Controllability for some Explosive Parabolic Problems.- Fréchet-Differentiability and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for Shape Functionals.- State Constrained Optimal Control for some Quasilinear Parabolic Equations.- Controllability property for the Navier-Stokes equations.- Shape Sensitivity and Large Deformation of the Domain for Norton-Hoff Flows.- On a Distributed Control Law with an Application to the Control of Unsteady Flow around a Cylinder.- Homogenization of a Model Describing Vibration of Nonlinear Thin Plates Excited by Piezopatches.- Stabilization of the Dynamic System of Elasticity by Nonlinear Boundary Feedback.- Griffith Formula and Rice-Cherepanov's Integral for Elliptic Equations with Unilateral Conditions in Nonsmooth Domains.- A Domain Optimization Problem for a Nonlinear Thermoelastic System.- Approximate Controllability for a Hydro-Elastic Model in a Rectangular Domain.- Noncooperative Games with Elliptic Systems.- Incomplete Indefinite Decompositions as Multigrid Smoothers for KKT Systems.- Domain Optimization for the Navier-Stokes Equations by an Embedding Domain Method.- On the Approximation and Optimization of Fourth Order Elliptic Systems.- On the Existence and Approximation of Solutions for the Optimal Control of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.- Identification of Memory Kernels in Heat Conduction and Viscoelasticity.- Variational Formulation for Incompressible Euler Equation by Weak Shape Evolution.

Anguinomorph lizards have attracted the attention of various workers for several reasons. They form a lacertilian infraorder well dermed by the subdivision of their tongue into a retractile fore-portion and a broad, elastic hind portion. The long, independent evolutionary history is documented by a rich fossil record (Hoff stetter, 1962 a). The lizards referred to the Anguinomorpha are subdivided into two suprafamilies, the Anguinoidea and the Platynota. The Anguinoidea comprise three families, the Anguidae, Xenosauridae and Anniellidae. The Platynota comprise seven families, the Helodermatidae, Parasaniwidae, Lanthanotidae, Dolichosauridae, Aigialosauridae, Mosasauridae and Varanidae. The Anguinomorpha exhibit a wide range of adaptation from the burrowing An niellidae to the Dolichosauridae, Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae, inhabitants of the Cretaceous seas. Since the days of Nopsca (1903, 1908, 1923), Janesch (1906) and Fejervary (1918) they stand as ancestors of snakes, a view which was accepted by Camp (1923) and McDowell and Bogert (1954, see also McDowell, 1972)."

Authors: Hugo Bachmann, Walter J. Ammann, Florian Deischl, Josef Eisenmann, Ingomar Floegl, Gerhard H. Hirsch, Günter K. Klein, Göran J. Lande, Oskar Mahrenholtz, Hans G. Natke, Hans Nussbaumer, Anthony J. Pretlove, Johann H. Rainer, Ernst-Ulrich Saemann, Lorenz Steinbeisser. Large structures such as factories, gymnasia, concert halls, bridges, towers, masts and chimneys can be detrimentally affected by vibrations. These vibrations can cause either serviceability problems, severely hampering the user's comfort, or safety problems. The aim of this book is to provide structural and civil engineers working in construction and environmental engineering with practical guidelines for counteracting vibration problems. Dynamic actions are considered from the following sources of vibration: - human body motions, - rotating, oscillating and impacting machines, - wind flow, - road traffic, railway traffic and construction work. The main section of the book presents tools that aid in decision-making and in deriving simple solutions to cases of frequently occurring "normal" vibration problems. Complexer problems and more advanced solutions are also considered. In all cases these guidelines should enable the engineer to decide on appropriate solutions expeditiously. The appendices of the book contain fundamentals essential to the main chapters.