Includes a selection of contributions to the Second Conference of the European Science Education Research Association held in Kiel, in September 1999. This book provides a view of the science education research in Europe and also worldwide by looking at what has been achieved in the past decades and what has to be done in the coming years.

Aims to elucidate the scientific and philosophical backgrounds that play a role in the debate taking place on the relation between selection and self-organization. This book is intended for biologists, philosophers of science, systems scientists, mathematicians, physicists, sociologists of science.

This work is based on the premise that life-cycle knowledge regarding the product and design process must be incorporated in the centre of CAD architecture. It focuses on the systematization and sharing of knowledge and is concerned with knowledge management over product life-cycle.

Covers the conventions of the cosmetic chemist.

Molecular diagnosis and gene therapy are of importance in clinical medicine. This book presents an understanding of the methodology of molecular diagnosis by hybridization analysis, polymerase chain reaction and others. It also offers basic strategies of gene therapy, including gene transfer and targeting.

Focuses on case retrieval methods based on structured cases as they are relevant for planning, configuration, and design, and provides a systematic view of the case reuse phase, centering on complex situations. This book consists of research results using examples taken from industrial design, biology, medicine, jurisprudence and other areas.

This collection of papers is dedicated to Don Walker. The technical content of the papers reflects his guidance and direction, as well as his dream of the future availability of electronic documents and the potential of this as a resource for corpus-based analysis.

Presents research developments on personal control and self-regulation. This book provides a brief synopses of each chapter as introductions to its three major sections. These sections cover the person as an agent of control, affective and cognitive mechanisms of executive agency, and reactions to threatened control.

Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, Number 27 .

This volume presents a selection of contributions from researchers in psychology, occupational health and sociology and covers three main sections: unemployment and downsizing, flexibilization and stress, and opportunities and constraints in the labour market.

Reflects on problems in phenomenological philosophy, including music. This book covers the author's 15 years in Europe as well as manuscripts written after his arrival in the USA in 1939.

Presents the spectrum of issues that may arise in various real-time database applications, the available solutions and technologies that may be used to address these issues, and the open problems that need to be tackled.

The structure and functioning of eutrophicated aquatic ecosystems has received considerable attention from limnologists as well as water managers. This is a contribution to the understanding of shallow aquatic ecosystems and to their scientifically based and sustainable management.

This text consists of chapters on scattering theory, coefficient identification, uniqueness and existence theorems, boundary controllability, wave propagation in stratified media and viscous flows.